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  Impact of Maternal Education about Complementary Feeding on Their Infants’ Nutritional Outcomes in Low- and Middle-income Households: A Community-based Randomized Interventional Study in Karachi, Pakistan

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014

  This article presents the findings of a cluster-randomized interventional trial at peri-urban settings of Karachi which was conducted to evaluate the impact of maternal educational messages regarding appropriate complementary feeding (CF) on the nutritional status of their infants after 30 weeks of educational interventions delivered by trained community health workers.  
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  Nutritional Status of Women and Children: A 2014 update on nutritional status by sociodemographic and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators collected in Demogrpahic and Health Surveys

  US Agency for International Development, 2014

  This report provides a descriptive analysis of the status of women and children in the context of nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, anemia, dietary diversity, and micronutrient supplementation. The report also provides information on the nutritional status of women and children, with data disaggregated by selected WASH indicators.
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  Coverage Monitoring Network (CMN) (CMN)

  Programme coverage is one of the most useful and reliable indicators for measuring the performance of CMAM programmes. There are many indicators (e.g.
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  The other Asian enigma: Explaining the rapid reduction of undernutrition in Bangladesh

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015

  Bangladesh has managed to sustain a surprisingly rapid reduction in the rate of child undernutrition for at least two decades. The two largest drivers of change that have prompted this unheralded success are large gains in parental education (26%) and rapid asset accumulation (25%).
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  Climate justice & human rights - Focus on food security, nutrition, health and gender

  Action contre la Faim, 2014

  This paper presents a set of recommendations on how the international community, governments, UN and social movements can bring issues of food security, nutrition, health and gender equity into climate negotiations.The brief was launched during the COP20 in Lima.
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  Agriculture and child under-nutrition in India: a state level analysis

  Madras School of Economics, India, 2014

  The basic rationale for exploring agriculture-nutrition linkage in developing countries is the existence of high level of undernutrition among rural population and a high level of their dependence on agriculture for livelihood.
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  Report on the state of food insecurity in urban India

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2010

  A review of the global context in respect of food security shows that the slow growth rate of food production has led to a decline in per capita output of grain between the 1970s and the first decade of the twenty-first century, due in most part to the inability/unwillingness of governments to raise and spend required resources by way of public investment on rural and agricultural development.
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  An exploratory study on large-scale feeding programmes and the possibility of linkage with small and marginal farmers

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2013

  India is the seventh largest country geographically, second most populated and the twelfth largest economy in the world. The economy of India is diverse, with a number of major sectors including manufacturing industries, agriculture, textiles, handicrafts and services. Agriculture is a major component of the Indian economy.
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  The school feeding programme in India

  MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2011

  Across the world, school feeding programmes (SFP) have been seen both as a social safety net for vulnerable sections of the population and as an educational intervention aimed at ensuring that children go to school and that their learning is improved by elimination of hunger in the class room.
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  Leveraging the Power of Women’s Groups and Financial Services to Improve Knowledge and Behaviors for Improved Child and Maternal Nutrition

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  Microfinance institutions (MFIs), self-help promoting institutions (SHPIs), and their self-help groups (SHGs) reach about 90 million poor women in India, bringing them together regularly to participate in financial activities that support their livelihoods.

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