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    Dietary quality maintained among overweight Brazilian women enrolled in a primary healthcare service

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2014
    Food consumption assessment is essential for understanding the relationship between diet and morbidity/mortality events and for providing information about the determinants of food intake, which, in turn, leads to the identification of population groups at risk, making it subsequently possible to propose public health policies or programmes.
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    Nutritional outcomes related to household food insecurity among mothers in rural Malaysia

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013
    During the past two decades, the rates of food insecurity and obesity have risen. Although a relationship between these two seemingly-paradoxical states has not been repeatedly seen in men, research suggests that a correlation between them exists in women. This study examines nutritional outcomes of household food insecurity among mothers in rural Malaysia.
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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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    Measuring progress toward empowerment Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index: baseline report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) baseline survey results, summarising both findings from the WEAI survey and the relationships between the WEAI and various outcomes of interest to the US Government’s Feed the Future initiative.
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    Statistical Yearbook of the Food And Agricultural Organization for the United Nations - FAO_2013_stats_yrbook.pdf

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2013
    The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends.
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    Reframing the New Alliance Agenda: A Critical Assessment based on Insights from Tanzania

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
    Through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, in 2013 G8 countries are seeking to mobilise the private sector and multi-national corporations to boost African agriculture. This new Future Agricultures / PLAAS briefing (pdf) looks at how African countries are engaging with the New Alliance.
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    Food security and nutrition: the role of forests

    Center for International Forestry Research, 2013
    With a growing global population, much of the current discourse on food security is focussed on increasing agricultural production. However, studies suggest that food insecurity is not caused by lack of food production, but by inadequate distribution, a lack of purchasing power and other non-productive causes.
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    Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia

    Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012
    The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and thus food security in this food-deficit region.
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    Nutrition interventions for older people in emergencies

    HelpAge International, 2013
    In emergency situations, older people may find it hard to access food. For example, when they are displaced, older people may face difficulties in registering for the general food rations, meet challenges in accessing food distributions and difficulties transporting the food.
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    The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2012)

    Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index, 2013
    The 2012 HANCI report finds that low income countries like Malawi and Madagascar and lower middle income Guatemala, are leading the charge against hunger and undernutrition, whilst economic powerhouses such as India and Nigeria are failing some of their most vulnerable citizens. Key findings include:

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