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  Evaluating the costs of the school nutrition project in Bangladesh

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2013

  School health and nutrition programmes provide the foundation for children’s physical, cognitive and educational development. The purpose of this analysis is to examine the Dubai Cares/GAIN-Assisted School Nutrition Project in Bangladesh.
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  Osun state home grown school feeding program: improving sustainability through increased local farmer participation

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2012

   
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  South Africa's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP): case study

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2013

  The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa is a large government sponsored programme reaching over 8 million learners in primary and secondary schools. The emphasis of the programme is on the provision of the daily balanced and diverse cooked meal, with nutrition education and sustainable food production being the other two pillars of the programme.
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  Poor nutrition status and associated feeding practices among HIV-positive children in a food secure region in Tanzania: a call for tailored nutrition training

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  Undernutrition among HIV-positive children can be ameliorated if they are given adequate foods in the right frequency and diversity. Food insecurity is known to undermine such efforts, but even in food rich areas, people have undernutrition.
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  Strengthening the links between resilience and nutrition: a proposed approach

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014

  This brief attempts to bring together the thinking on nutrition and resilience, to clarify the role of food and agriculture in each of these agendas, and to define potential synergies between nutrition and resilience concepts and programmes.
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  Planning and costing for the acceleration of actions for nutrition: experiences of countries in the Movement for Scaling Up Nutrition

  Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014

  This report is a synthesis of work undertaken by countries in the movement for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN). The costed nutrition plans for 20 countries are analysed, looking at the assumptions made, the priority areas and targets which were set and the methods used, to determine whether they are responsive to the identified needs.
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  Taps and toilets: how greater access can radically improve Africa's future

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  In the first edition of The African Futures Brief, a team of researchers build three scenarios to explore possibilities for the delivery of water and sanitation. First, using historic data, the researchers identify the African countries that have made the most dramatic improvements in access to water and sanitation over the last 20 years.
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  Feeding India’s Growing Billion: inclusive growth of food production indispensable

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012

  According to the report of the United Nations World Food Programme, India ranks 67th in the Global Hunger Index of 119 countries. It also points to some staggering figures. More than 27 per cent of the world’s undernourished population lives in India while 43 per cent of children (under 5 years) are underweight.
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  Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Production Diversity, and Nutrition: Evidence from Nepal

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013

  It is increasingly recognised that agricultural growth and development do not necessarily translate into improved nutrition outcomes. Policymakers are increasingly grappling with how to design and implement agricultural policies and programmes that can also achieve nutritional objectives.
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  Creating a sustainable food future: A menu of solutions to sustainably feed more than 9 billion people by 2050

  World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013

  With population growth and development creating ever-more demand for food (noted here as comprising two-thirds and one-third a function of the increase respectively), humanity faces a growing food gap between what will be needed in 2050, and what can sustainably be produced.

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