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    Panchayat-Led Nutrition and Daycare Centres—The Fulwari Scheme of Chhattisgarh

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    Chhattisgarh has a statewide programme using community health workers called mitanins. The National Rural Health Mission organises the payment of small stipends to the mitanins through the panchayats and recognizes them as accredited social health activists.
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    Collaboration of Integrated Child Development Services with Self-Help Groups to Decentralize the Supply of Supplementary Feeding at Anganwadi Centers

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    The Integrated Child Development Services programme provides supplementary food to millions of women and young children in India for approximately 300 days a year at its anganwadi centers (AWCs).
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    Implementation Notes

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    The Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN) programme has launched a new series of publications called Implementation Notes. These papers summarize experiences related to how specific interventions or programmes are delivered. They are intended to share information on innovations in delivery and are not research products.
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    Rapid desk-based study: Evidence to support improved solid waste management in Sierra Leone

    Evidence on Demand, 2014
    This study has involved a review of selected literature (published in the last 10 years or of particular interest for the intervention), dealing with issues and benefits linked with solid waste management worldwide and, specifically, in developing countries. An in-depth internet search has been carried out of academic literature and grey sources.
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    Cultivating nutritious food systems: a snapshot report

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2014
    This report is the first in a series of snapshot reports by GAIN. It follows nutrition along the agricultural supply chain and explores the success stories and challenges where agriculture and nutrition are working together.
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    How can agriculture and food system policies improve nutrition?

    Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 2014
    Governments the world over are focused as never before on the importance of linking agriculture and food markets with improved health and nutrition. Recent food price volatility, expected population and food demand growth, changing dietary patterns and the threat of climate change are all factors adding complexity to the challenge of achieving food and nutrition security.
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    Action to improve nutrition: making ICN2 count over the next decade and beyond

    Action Against Hunger, 2014
    This report presents actions ACF believe are essential to ensure the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), held from 19 to 21 November 2014, is not simply a talking shop but the moment the world was ignited to implement action.
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    Stepping up to the challenge – Six Issues facing global climate change and food security

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014
    There are several complex and interrelated challenges and barriers to achieving global food and nutrition security in an increasingly variable  climate. Without urgent action for mitigation and adaptation, the world faces more loss and damage and this will further threaten the productive capacity and long-term viability of smallholder farmers.
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    Postgraduate education in nutrition in south Asia: a huge mismatch between investments and needs

    BMC Medicine, 2014
    Despite decades of nutrition advocacy and programming, the nutrition situation in South Asian countries is alarming. We assume that modern training in nutrition at the post graduate level is an important contributor to building the capacity of individuals to think and act effectively when combating undernutrition.
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    Global nutrition report: Actions and accountability to accelerate the world's progress on nutrition

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    Malnutrition affects one in two people on the planet. Of these, 165 million children under the age of five are estimated to be stunted (i.e. low height for age). Two billion people are estimated to be deficient in one or more micronutrients. Nearly 1.5 billion people are estimated to be overweight and over 500 million to be obese.

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