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  Promising pathways. Innovations and best practices in CLTS at scale in Madagascar. Towards an open defecation free country

  CLTS Foundation, 2014

  This book from the CLTS Foundation - with a foreword by Kamal Kar - describes their research into the process and practices of Community Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) as implemented by the Global Sanitation Fund (GSF) programme in Madagascar.
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  Food Security

  The journal Food Security offers a mixture of original refereed papers taking a synthetic view of the science, sociology and economics of food production, agricultural development, access to food, and
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  Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia and East Africa: examining the enabling environment through stakeholder perceptions

  Food Security, 2015

  South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa are the two regions of the world with the highest concentration of undernutrition. The majority of the nutritionally vulnerable populations in both regions is dependent in some way upon agriculture as a primary source of livelihood.
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  Trade and Environment Review 2013: Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate

  United Nations, 2013

  This report argues that the world needs a paradigm shift in agricultural development: from a ‘green revolution’ to a ‘truly ecological intensification’ approach.
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  Focus on families and culture: a guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition

  US Agency for International Development, 2015

  This guide is a user-friendly guide for programme managers and planners for conducting a Maternal Child Health and Nutrition assessment to investigate intra-household roles and influence.
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  The state of food insecurity in the world 2015

  Faostat, FAO, 2015

  Key messages include:
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  Can innovation prizes help address water and sanitation challenges?

  Ideas to Impact, 2015

  This paper helps identify whether innovation prizes can be used to address intractable issues in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector and makes recommendations for potential innovation prizes across a number of problem areas.
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  Improving agriculture and nutrition with open data

  The Open Data Institute, 2015

  How can we improve agriculture, food and nutrition with open data?  In this discussion paper, the Open Data Institute highlight examples of how open data is being used in different agriculture and nutrition contexts to:
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  Can interventions in agriculture improve nutrition? - Agri-nutrition.pdf

  Department for International Development, UK, 2014

  This brief summarises evidence from a DFID Evidence Paper: 'Can agriculture interventions promote nutrition?'. The paper provides a critical review of the strength and quality of evidence linking interventions in agriculture with nutrition outcomes. Five interventions are reviewed:
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  Can agriculture interventions promote nutrition?

  Department for International Development, UK, 2014

  This evidence paper provides a critical review of the strength and quality of the evidence base linking agriculture-based interventions and nutrition outcomes. In total, 38 studies published over the period 1980-2013 are included: 15 on home gardens, five on aquaculture, six on livestock, eight on cash crops and eight on biofortified crops (some studies address more than one intervention).

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