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    Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health: highlights from an international conference

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
    Agricultural development has traditionally focused on raising productivity and maximizing production of cereals. In this regard, the world’s farmers and farming systems have made enormous advances, multiplying cereal production several times over in the past half century. Yet hunger, malnutrition, and poor health remain widespread and persistent problems.
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    Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of average food prices, extremely poor and food insecure families suffer malnutrition and difficulties in school.
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    The state of food insecurity in the world: addressing food insecurity in protracted crises

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    The number of undernourished people in the world remains unacceptably high at near the one billion mark despite a decline in 2010 for the first time since 1995. This edition of “The State of Food Insecurity in the World” focuses on people living in a group of countries in which the incidence of hunger is particularly high and persistent.
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    Correlation between Fitness and Fatness in 6-14-year Old Serbian School Children

    Centre for Health and Population Research, Bangladesh, 2011
    Lack of physical activity and/or physical fitness are some reasons epidemiologists suggest for increase in childhood obesity in the last 20 years, with clear correlation between body composition and physical activity and/or physical fitness yet to be determined.
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    Hunger pains: Pakistan’s food insecurity

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010
    The challenges of bringing better food security to Pakistan are immense. This collection of essays provides a broad overview of food security in Pakistan, with emphasis on the agricultural sector.
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    Working together for better safety nets

    2012
    Safety net programmes have proved to be a useful instrument to tackle hunger and malnutrition in Bangladesh. However, insufficient co-ordination between the manifold initiatives causes inefficiencies and limits coverage of poor households suffering from hunger.
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    NACS Meeting Report 2011

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2011
    Ninety-eight participants from 18 countries met to share tools and experiences and to disseminate promising approaches in nutrition assessment, counseling, and support (NACS) programming. NACS is the primary model supported by the United States President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) for integrating nutrition services into clinical HIV care and treatment services.
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    An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
    One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.
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    The challenge of hunger and malnutrition

    Copenhagen Consensus, 2009
    Undernutrition leads to increased mortality and morbidity which lead to loss of economic output and increased spending on health. Therefore, reducing undernutrition is one of the Millennium Goals, and is also a key factor underpinning several others.
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    Food aid or food sovereignty?: ending world hunger in our time

    The Oakland Institute, 2005
    Food aid has been ‘cheap’ aid, expected to serve domestic interests and to fight hunger at the same time. This paper argues that apart from specific disaster situations, this does not work. The author claims that food aid participates in the rise of hunger while it helps the implementation of adverse policies. The paper underlines that:

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