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    World Food Programme Gender Assessment Brief

    World Food Programme, 2012
    In 2010 the World Food Programme (WFP) conducted a gender assessment to inform WFP’s Bangladesh Country Strategy and Country Programme for 2012 – 2016. This brief assessment provided a set of programme specific and cross-sectoral recommendations to improve and sustain gendered aware thinking in WFP projects and programmes.
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    Nutrition: nutrition of women in the preconception period, during pregnancy and the breastfeeding period

    World Health Organization, 2012
    This report argues that taking a life cycle approach and securing good nutritional status for women across the life course will in the long term reduce child underweight and stunting. It argues that around 30% of all women aged 15 to 49 years are thought to be anaemic, and the highest proportions of these anaemic women live in Africa and South East Asia.
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    Gender and Nutrition: FAO draft issue paper

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012
    This draft issue paper was prepared by FAO in October 2012 as a working document before submission to and discussion within the UNSCN with a view to developing consensual briefs for non-specialists on crosscutting issues impacting food and nutrition security.
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    Women and Children’s Health: PMNCH Knowledge Summary 18 on nutrition

    1,000 Days, 2012
    Gender inequality is linked to higher rates of child mortality and malnutrition. Women often have less education, lower economic status, and limited decision-making at household and community levels, all of which contributes to poorer nutrition. Women’s status often determines maternal and child feeding practices as well as how food is consumed and distributed within the household.
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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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    Development support program for stone quarry affected communities in West-Bengal and Jarkhand, Pilot Project 2010-2012, Evaluation Report

    2012
    The project is implemented particularly for the benefit of those Santhal communities who are working in stone quarry and crusher units of Jharkhand and West Bengal.
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    Where the rain falls: climate change, food and livelihood security, and migration

    United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, 2012
    This comparative study highlights that rainfall variability and food insecurity are key drivers for human mobility. The empirical research is based on eight country case studies, including a 1,300 household survey and participatory research sessions involving 2,000 individuals. The results reveal that migration is an important risk management strategy for vulnerable households.
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    The food security policy context in Brazil

    International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2011
    Accomplishments, such as the Zero Hunger strategy and the National Food and Nutritional Security Policy (PNSAN), show that Brazil has a strong food policy framework in place. Moreover, there have been related public action interventions geared to tackling the underlying causes of hunger, such as inequality, poverty and social exclusion.
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    A reference for designing food and nutrition security policies: the Brazilian Fome Zero strategy

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2009
    Between 2000-2002 and 2004‐2006, the undernourished population of Brazil reduced from 17 million to 11.9 million thanks to an integrated effort whose centrepiece was the Fome Zero (Zero Hunger) strategy, launched in January 2003 by the Lula Administration.
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    Understanding adaptive capacity: sustainable livelihoods and food security in coastal Bangladesh

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2012
    This paper analyses data from a household-level survey of 980 agricultural and fishing households in seven sites across southern Bangladesh. It examines the relationship between assets, livelihood strategies, food security and changes in farming practices.

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