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    Protective Effect of Breastfeeding against Overweight Can Be Detected as Early as the Second Year of Life: A Study of Children from One of the Most Socially-deprived Areas of Brazil

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2015
    Millions of children live in Brazil’s semi-arid region, one of the most socially-deprived areas of the country, where undernutrition co-exists with obesity as a consequence of the nutrition transition. There is evidence that childhood obesity predisposes adult obesity and, thus, that obesity should be prevented as early as possible.
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    2014-2015 Global Food Policy Report

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    This report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions:
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    Emerging seed markets: the role of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian seeds in African agriculture

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2014
    In recent years, three of the largest emerging powers, Brazil, China and India, have all brought about incredible agricultural revolutions and seeds have played a big part in that story. Nowadays, their seed markets are all within the world’s top ten in terms of value and their companies are eager to expand into new markets, particularly in Africa.
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    Tracking Investments in Nutrition in Africa

    Oxford Policy Management, 2015
    There is considerable interest in greater transparency and accountability for aid expenditures. One result of this is that countries receiving external assistance have been encouraged to put effort into tracking spending.
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    Is Reliable Water Access the Solution to Undernutrition?

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2015
    Interventions aimed at increasing water availability for livelihood and domestic activities have great potential to improve various determinants of undernutrition, such as the quantity and diversity of foods consumed within the household, income generation, and women’s empowerment. However, current evidence on the topic is diluted across many different publications.
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    Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors

    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2015
    Poor complementary food hygiene may account for a substantial proportion of diarrhoeal diseases among infants and young children in developing countries, which in turn, account for a large proportion of the global burden of infectious disease. However, most of the information on food hygiene in low income countries derives from expert opinion and
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    Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements, Regardless of Their Zinc Content, Increase Growth and Reduce the Prevalence of Stunting and Wasting in Young Burkinabe Children: A Cluster-Randomized Trial

    PLoS ONE, 2015
    Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) are promising home fortification products, but the optimal zinc level needed to improve growth and reduce morbidity is uncertain. This study aims to assess the impact of providing SQ-LNS with varied amounts of zinc, along with illness treatment, on zinc-related outcomes compared with standard care.
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    Priority Nutrition Indicators for the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals

    United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2014
    Explicit attention to nutrition is needed as the world seeks to accelerate and sustain recent gains in development, and to expand these to include places and people who have been left behind. Without good nutrition, people’s mind and body cannot function well. When that happens, the foundations of economic, social and cultural life of society are undermined.
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    Markets for Nutrition

    Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2015
    Making safe, nutrient-rich foods more accessible to people on low-incomes is one way to reduce micronutrient undernutrition (the lack of essential nutrients and minerals required by the body for healthy development).
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    Helpdesk Report: Short distance learning courses on development and nutrition

    Department for International Development, UK, 2010
    The University of London and the Open University are the main two academic institutions in the UK that run short, distance learning courses in development.

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