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  How effective are cash transfer programmes at improving nutritional status? A rapid evidence assessment of programmes' effects on anthropometric outcomes

  2012

  The paper aims to examine the relationship between cash transfer programmes and the nutritional status of recipient children. Can cash transfers be counted on to improve child health, or are mediating characteristics important? In particular, conditionalities are expensive: are conditional cash transfer programmes more successful than unconditional programmes?
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  Managing risk, promoting growth: developing systems for social protection in Africa. The World Bank's Africa Social Protection Strategy 2012—2022

  World Bank, 2012

  This report provides an overview of the state of social protection in Africa, starting with the premise that some indicators have improved significantly over the past decade. It argues the need to take a systems approach to social protection. The World Bank’s priorities in this field are to help reduce vulnerability and poverty by helping poor people.
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  Introduction of β carotene-rich orange sweet potato in rural Uganda resulted in increased vitamin A intakes among children and women and improved vitamin A status among children

  Journal of Nutrition, 2012

  Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) persists in Uganda and the consumption of β-carotene-rich orange sweet potato (OSP) may help to alleviate it. Two large-scale, 2-y intervention programs were implemented among Ugandan farmer households to promote the production and consumption of OSP.
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  Agricultural Interventions and Nutrition: Lessons from the Past and New Evidence

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011

  The authors state that globally, many poor households rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, even when livelihoods are diversified, arguing further that poor households are also most vulnerable to undernutrition, including lack of micronutrients.
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  Linking agricultural development to school feeding in sub-Saharan Africa: Theoretical perspectives

  Science Direct, 2011

  This paper proposes that social protection interventions involving food can be used to promote transformational change in family farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Research projects and programmes on agriculture and nutrition: a gap analysis

  2012

  This report examines current and planned research projects on agriculture for improved nutrition and uses a mapping process to identify gaps in research coverage. The study reviewed 151 research projects, most of which are part of broader research programmes.
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  Farmer, trader, and consumer decisionmaking: toward sustainable marketing of orange-fleshed sweet potato in Mozambique and Uganda. 2020 Conference Note 2

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  The article discusses efforts to introduce orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) varieties into Africa in an effort to reduce vitamin A deficiency, since the indigenous white-fleshed sweet potato varieties are not high in this micronutrient.
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  Enhancing nutritional value and marketability of beans through research and strengthening key value-chain. 2020 Conference Note 1

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011

  This project aimed to understand barriers to participation and develop solutions for producers and consumers in different parts of the bean value chain.
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  Alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms: impacts on routine preventative health clinic visits in Burkina Faso

  World Bank, 2012

  We conducted a unique randomized experiment to estimate the impact of alternative cash transfer delivery mechanisms on household demand for routine preventative health services in rural Burkina Faso. The two-year pilot program randomly distributed cash transfers that were either conditional or unconditional and were given to either mothers or fathers.
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  School food, politics, and child health

  2012

  This paper reflects on how understanding of school feeding has changed since the 2009 analysis conducted by the UN World Food Programme, The Partnership for Child Development and the World Bank, which was published as Rethinking School Feeding. Data on school feeding programme outcomes were collected through a literature review.

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