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    Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)

    The Child Poverty Action Group was formed in 1994 out of deep concern for the rising level of poverty in New Zealand and its effects on children.
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    Breaking the poverty/malnutrition cycle in Africa and the Middle East

    Organización Panamericana de Salud, 2009
    Poverty, hunger and malnutrition are coexisting in Africa and parts of the Middle East, creating inequalities that need to be addressed politically. This paper reviews the experiences with facing malnutrition in Sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Middle East. The authors indicate the following findings:
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    Hunger for learning: nutritional barriers to children’s education

    Child Poverty Action Group, 2011
    Do you know that in many parts of the world an ever-growing number of children turn up to school every day without having eaten breakfast? This paper focuses on New Zealand in particular, indicating that it is time to deal directly with childhood hunger in New Zealand, yet drawing some outstanding world-wide applicable recommendations.
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    Analysing Success in the Fight against Malnutrition in Peru

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
    This paper documents and systematises Peru’s recent experience in tackling malnutrition. Through an intensive review of quantitative and qualitative evidence, it argues that success is not explained by the presence of favourable socioeconomic changes in Peru, and it explores the political determinants of success in three dimensions.
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    Biggin’ it up – food security and obesity in Jamaica and St Lucia

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    The food systems and the nature of food security problems in the Caribbean countries are gradually changing. This paper explores two different aspects of food security, namely undernourishment and overweight in the two Caribbean Islands of Jamaica and St. Lucia.
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    Development theory and domestic agriculture in the Caribbean: recurring crises and missed opportunities

    2008
    The application of development theory in the Caribbean has legitimised export agriculture at the expense of agricultural production for the domestic market. This paper highlights how recurring economic crises in the Caribbean have provided opportunities to challenge the structural legacy of agricultural export-oriented economies.
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    A life free from hunger: tackling child malnutrition

    Save the Children Fund, 2012
    A combination of global trends is putting future progress on tackling children malnutrition at risk. This study argues that despite these trends, there are clear solutions to this chronic crisis. The authors point that the world has enough food for everyone, but millions of children face a life sentence of hunger and malnutrition – the hidden reason so many die.
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    Working multisectorally in nutrition: principles, practices, and case studies

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
    A multi-sectoral approach is arguably the most effective way to reduce malnutrition, but there is little evidence about how to implement it. This volume is an initial venture into the in-depth research necessary to develop that evidence base and answer questions about whether it is possible to work multi-sectorally in nutrition.
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    Was the global food crisis really a crisis?: simulations versus self-reporting

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2011
    The FAO simulation-based hunger indicator has been criticised for its inaccurate sensitivity. This brief raises some important questions about how effectively international institutions are monitoring food insecurity.
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    National Nutrition Policy and Strategic Plan 2007-2012

    2012
    Having noted that the Food Security and Nutrition Policy of 1990 and other development policies that contain elements of nutrition did not give adequate attention to nutrition programmes and services the Government developed the National Nutrition Policy.

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