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  Improving diet quality and micronutrient nutrition: homestead food production in Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009

  A critical yet often overlooked component of food security is diet quality. Even households who have access to sufficient amounts of food and calories may still lack essential micronutrients, increasing their risk for both short- and long-term health and development consequences.
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  Does social capital build women’s assets? The long-term impacts of group- based and individual dissemination of agricultural technology in Bangladesh

  CGIAR System-wide Program on Property Rights and Collective Action, 2010

  In Bangladesh, rural households headed by women are more likely to be among the poorest. This paper investigates the long–term impact of agricultural technologies, disseminated using different implementation modalities, on men’s and women’s asset accumulation in rural Bangladesh, and asks the folowing questions:
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  Innovative approaches to gender and food security: insights, issue 82

  Knowledge Services, IDS, 2012

  This issue of insights shows how development policy and practice can potentially improve food security while supporting women’s  empowerment. They can focus on women’s critical role as food producers, consumers  and family carers, while transforming gender norms and inequalities within households and communities.
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  Zero hunger:transforming evidence-based success into effective change

  Action Against Hunger, 2011

  This briefing paper, published by Action Against Hunger, seeks to understand why and how countries like Brazil, Peru, Mozambique, Malawi, and Bangladesh have managed to reduce undernutrition, while others have not.
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  International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B)

  ICDDR,B - the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh is an international health research institution.
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  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (JHPN)

  The quarterly Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition (incorporating the Journal of Diarrhoeal Diseases Research) publishes articles on maternal, child and family health and related issues of p
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  Relationship between household wealth inequality and chronic childhood under-nutrition in Bangladesh

  2006

  This paper, published in the International Journal of Equity in Health, examines the relationship between household wealth inequality and chronic child under-nutrition. The paper finds that 43 per cent of Bangladeshi children aged between 0 and 5 years have failed to grow to normal heights for their age.
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  Maintaining momentum to 2015?: an impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

  World Bank, 2005

  This World Bank report examines the impacts of donor-supported programmes for maternal and child health, nutrition, and fertility in Bangladesh. It reports that under-five mortality has been reduced substantially since the 1990s, but malnutrition remains high. The gap between rich and poor in child mortality is also narrowing.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  Mainstreaming nutrition for improved development outcomes

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003

  This paper brings together a collection of articles from the symposium ‘mainstreaming nutrition for improved development outcomes’.

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