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  Enhancing women’s leadership to address the challenges of climate change on nutrition security and health

  United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2011

  Climate change affects all the basic determinants of health, including food, shelter, water and air. More specifically, it will exacerbate the under nutrition crisis through a lack of access to sufficient, safe and adequate food at household level; maternal and child care and feeding practices; inappropriate access to health services and the lack of a healthy environment.
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  Linkages between agriculture and nutrition: implications for policy and research

  AgEcon Search, 1993

  The persistent pressure to increase food production to keep pace with population growth has forced many countries to accept short-term solutions that ultimately threaten the sustainability of initial food production gains. This paper is sought to help carving a rationalised relationship between agriculture and nutrition.
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  Animal source foods to improve micronutrient nutrition and human function in developing countries

  Journal of Nutrition, 2003

  Nutrition programmers usually discards the option of increasing animal food intake, due to the belief that poor populations lack the necessary resources to be successful in animal production, and due to the potential for ecological harm.
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  Agricultural research and policy for better health and nutrition in developing countries: a food systems approach

  AgEcon Search, 2006

  A large number of diseases and health hazards link human health and the global food system, while malnutrition interacts with many of these diseases. This paper argues that the global food system begins and ends with health, and that the prioritisation and implementation of agricultural research and policy should consider health and nutrition effects.
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  Globalization of food systems in developing countries: impact on food security and nutrition

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  Street foods and supermarkets are becoming increasingly important, but nutritionists are growing progressively concerned. This compilation of articles examines the impact of globalisation and urbanisation on dietary patterns and nutritional status of urban populations in developing countries.
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  Food security and climate change: a report by the high level panel of experts on food security and nutrition of the committee on world food security

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012

  This report analyses the connected problem of food security and climate change. It observes that a social vulnerability lens is essential to understand why certain individuals, households or communities experience differences in food insecurity risks, even when they are in the same geographic region.
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  Climate Risk Assessment for the Intersectoral Program on Food and Nutrition Security in El Salvador

  2010

  The document is a climate assessment conducted for the Intersectoral Program on Food and Nutrition Security (ISAN), and is divided into two parts: (1) analysis of potential risks to achieving the objectives outlined in ISAN, considering climate change impacts, and (2) identification of potential adjustments or adaptation measures that could be implemented to reduce the risks from climate change.
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  The Impact of the Midday Meal Scheme on Nutrition and Learning

  Young Lives, 2010

  Food insecurity and poor nutrition remain a problem in many developing countries and can have profound effects on children’s health and their development. The Midday Meal Scheme in India is a programme covering primary school children to improve nutrition as well as increase educational enrolment, retention and attendance.
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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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