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Medium-term effects of the Oportunidades program package, including nutrition, on education of rural children age 0-8 in 1997
Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica Mexico (National Institute of Public Health), 2005This paper provides estimates of the medium-term impacts of the Oportunidades programme in rural Mexico on education for children aged 0 to 8 in 1997 just prior to the initial intervention, and those aged 6 to 14 in the 2003 Rural Evaluation Survey.The main findings include: the age group 3 to 5 in 1997 most likely did not benefit from the early nutritional intervention and also by 2003DocumentWomen: still the key to food and nutrition security
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005This brief discusses its research findings emphasising that empowering women is the key to ensuring food and nutrition security in the developing world.DocumentAssuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005Food and nutrition security remain Africa's most fundamental challenges. The number of Africans who are undernourished has been on the rise for decades and now stands at about 200 million people. However, a new commitment to change is emerging both among African leaders and in the international community.DocumentAgriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop reports 2001-2004
Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2004This website offers updates on the projects and programmes being conducted by the Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage project.DocumentAgriculture, food security, nutrition and the millennium development goals
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This paper discusses the importance of agriculture, food security and nutrition within the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG).DocumentWater: more nutrition per drop: towards sustainable food production and consumption patterns in a rapidly changing world
Stockholm International Water Institute, 2004The report highlights key facts, conditions and trends regarding water internationally. It explores water's relationship to sustainable food production and consumption patterns. It also highlights key water-food-nutrition-environment-livelihood trends, provides response options, and illustrates important policy directions. Five key issues for policy debate are identified within the report:DocumentAssuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference
2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.DocumentThe agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries
Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.DocumentCrossing boundaries to reduce malnutrition? An institutional study of agriculture and nutrition in Uganda, Mozambique and Nigeria
Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003This study examines how agriculturalists and nutritionists in Uganda, Mozambique, and Nigeria might work more closely together to reduce malnutrition, hunger, and poverty.The study concludes that the two professional communities are missing important opportunities to collaborate that would have a positive impact on people’s nutritional well being.