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    Food prices, nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

    World Bank, 2012
    This report highlights the need to help developing countries deal with the harmful effects of higher and more volatile food prices. It notes that in 2007-2008 and again in 2011, spikes in food prices prevented the achievement of poverty eradication policies affecting especially the urban poor and the health of children.
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    2011 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012
    2011 saw significantly increased support of agriculture and food policy as tools for global poverty reduction. It also brought serious challenges, most notably in the form of food price volatility, extreme weather shocks, famine, unrest, and conflicts.
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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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    Effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children: systematic review

    British Medical Journal, 2012
    This systematic review's main objective was to assess the effectiveness of agricultural interventions in improving the nutritional status of children indeveloping countries.The review included 23 studies,mostly evaluating home garden interventions. Key findings include:
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    The State of Food and Agriculture 2010–2011: Women in Agriculture. Closing the Gender Gap for Development

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
    Women account for a high proportion of farmers in many developing countries yet often have very little access to the resources they need to support their livelihoods, including land, livestock, technology, farm labour, extension services, financial services and education. This can significantly affect women’s ability to adapt to new agricultural conditions in the face of climate change.
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    Climate change: impact on agriculture and costs of adaptation

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2009
    Climate change, together with global population and income growth, is a major threat to food security in the world. This food policy report presents research results which quantify climate change impact, assess the consequences for food security and estimate the investment required to offset the negative effects on human wellbeing.
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    Low input food and nutrition security: growing and eating more for less

    Food & Nutrition Security and Permaculture in Malawi, 2005
    Tackling food insecurity in Malawi has moved away from emergency aid towards relief and recovery, with government policy looking at food diversification and nutrition. Produced following a nine-month study conducted in Malawi throughout 2005 involving twenty pilot projects, this manual presents a step by step and hands-on approach to achieve food security.
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    Global economic prospects: commodities at the crossroads

    World Bank, 2008
    2008 was a turbulent year for the world economy: the financial turmoil that started in 2007 intensified significantly with the banking crisis that hit the United States and Europe in September 2008. Initially, developing countries were relatively unaffected by these developments but more recently, the 2009 growth outlooks for many have diminished.
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    Impact of climate change and bioenergy on nutrition

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    This paper examines the consequences of climate change and rising bioenergy demand for sustainable development, food security and nutrition throughout the lifecycle.
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    Conditional cash transfers for improving uptake of health interventions in low- and middle-income countries

    Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007
    This article, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association assesses the effectiveness of conditional cash transfers in improving access to and use of health services, as well as improving health outcomes, in low- and middle-income countries. The article provides a description of interventions in Mexico, Nicaragua, Columbia, Honduras, Brazil and Malawi.

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