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  Agriculture, nutrition and the green revolution in Bangladesh

  Science Direct, 2016

  This paper explores agriculture and nutrition linkages in Bangladesh, a country that achieved rapid growth in rice productivity at a relatively late stage in Asia's Green Revolution, as well as unheralded progress against undernutrition.
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  Reducing Anemia Prevalence in Afghanistan: Socioeconomic Correlates and the Particular Role of Agricultural Assets

  Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2016

  Anemia is a nutrition problem of global importance. Based on data from 107 countries worldwide, Stevens et al. [1] estimated that 29% of non-pregnant women (translating to 496 million non-pregnant women), 38% of pregnant women (translating to 32 million pregnant women) and 43% of children (translating to 273 million children) suffer from anemia.
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  Enabling and equipping women to improve nutrition

  Bread for the World, 2016

  Malnutrition during the 1,000 days between pregnancy and a child’s second birthday has irreversible physical, cognitive, and health consequences, reducing a person’s lifetime earning potential. For many countries with high rates of hunger and malnutrition, the low status of women is a primary cause.
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  Empowering women and girls to improve nutrition: building a sisterhood of success

  Scaling Up Nutrition, 2016

  As evidence has long suggested, gender inequality can be a cause as well as an effect of hunger and malnutrition.
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  Do boys eat better than girls in India?

  Young Lives, 2016

  This paper examines gender inequalities in the quality of children’s diet, as defined by dietary diversity, among children growing up in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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  Factsheet: Diabetes in older people

  HelpAge International, 2016

  There are two main types of diabetes. Type 2 accounts for over 90 per cent of diabetes worldwide. It results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin, leading to raised glucose levels in the blood. One of the four leading global NCDs2, diabetes is a major cause of chronic illness and morbidity:
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  Global dietary quality, undernutrition and non-communicable disease: a longitudinal modelling study

  British Medical Journal, 2016

  This study aimed to determine the relationship between global dietary energy availability and dietary quality, and nutrition-related health outcome.
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  Measuring health and well-being of young people in the Transfer Project

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  This policy brief addresses the knowledge gap that exists about the effectiveness of cash transfer programmes to impact young people’s health, development and well-being.
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  Feeding severely wasted children in school: examining processes in DepED`s school feeding program

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2015

  Education and learning depend on good health and nutrition, especially among young children. Thus, investments have been made for these two forms of human capital development through food for education (FFE) programmes.
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  Maternal depression and malnutrition in children in southwest Uganda: a case control study

  BMC Public Health, 2015

  Malnutrition remains one of the most significant child health problems in developing countries with an estimated 53 % of child deaths per year attributed to being underweight. The 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) showed that 38 % of the children were stunted and 16 % were underweight.

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