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    Guidelines for estimating the month and year of birth of young children

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2008
    A child’s age is an essential piece of information for evaluating the many facets of the child’s nutritional status. Several core food security and nutrition indicators relating to children require age for their construction. However, in many countries, there is no custom of recording children’s date of birth, so it becomes necessary to estimate their age.
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    Training guide for community-based management of acute malnutrition (CMAM)

    Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2008
    A significant gap remains between need and capacity for management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) in children. This is despite clear advances in the development and implementation of international and national protocols for the management of SAM, as well as guidelines and training for inpatient care of severely acutely malnourished children.
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    World population highlights: key findings from PRB’s 2008 world population data sheet

    Population Reference Bureau, 2008
    During the 20th Century, nearly 90 percent of population growth took place in countries classified as less developed countries (LDCs). This remarkable development resulted from an unprecedented decline in death rates in LDCs brought about by the spread of public health measures, health care, and disease prevention.
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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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    Worldwide prevalence of anaemia 1993-2005

    World Health Organization, 2008
    Anaemia is a public health problem that affects populations in both rich and poor countries. Its primary cause is iron deficiency, but a number of other conditions, such as malaria, parasitic infection, other nutritional deficiencies, and haemoglobinopathies are also responsible, often in combination.
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    Improving prenatal nutrition in developing countries: strategies, prospects, and challenges

    American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000
    In developing countries, the health and nutrition of females throughout their entire life is affected by complex and highly interrelated biological, social, cultural, and health service related factors.
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    Rising food prices intensify food insecurity in developing countries

    Economic Research Service, USDA, 2008
    Recent increases in oil prices have raised serious concerns in low-income countries, both because of the financial burden of the higher energy import bill and potential constraints on imports of necessities like food and raw materials.
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    Rising food prices in developing countries: causes, consequences and solutions

    Centre de cooperation internationale en recherche agronomique pour le Developpement, 2008
    Since the start of the food crisis a number of causes have been suggested for the situation in developing countries. Many are now asking what the consequences of rising prices will be for food security and agriculture in these countries and how a way can be found out of the crisis.
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    Biotechnology and food security in developing countries

    ActionAid International, 2005
    New technologies associated with genetic engineering and commonly referred to as biotechnology are increasingly perceived to be so ground-breaking that their impact on farming, agriculture and food systems will far surpass that of the twentieth century industrial revolution.
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    Food security in developing countries

    UK Parliament, 2006
    In 2000, world leaders committed themselves to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The first is to eradicate poverty and hunger, including to reduce by half the proportion of people who suffer from hunger between 1990 and 2015. However, by 2003 the proportion of world population that was undernourished had only decreased from 20% to 17%.

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