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  Freedom to grow: are children bigger in South Africa’s new democracy?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  Human growth is a sensitive measure of social change. South Africa has seen huge political, economic and social changes in the last decade. Is this reflected in the growth of the nation’s children? Research from Loughborough University, UK, looks at data from more than 3000 children born in Soweto and Johannesburg in 1990.
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  Is Asia losing the fight against hunger?

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003

  The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) seeks to halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger. In the Asia-Pacific region only seven developing countries are on track. Almost two-thirds of the world’s undernourished live in Asia. India – where one in five people are undernourished – has more undernourished people than the whole of Africa.
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  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop reports 2001-2004

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2004

  This website offers updates on the projects and programmes being conducted by the Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage project.
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  Halving hunger: it can be done

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out it’s recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before defining the strategic approach which informs their plans to meet the targets by 2015.
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  Healthy people in a healthy environment: integrating population, health and the environment in Madagascar

  Environmental Health Project, 2004

  This policy briefing from the Environmental Health Project reports on an integrated population, health and environment programme, implemented by an umbrella nongovernmental organisation in Madagascar. The programme aimed to link interventions in natural resource management with family planning and health activities.
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  Obesity and inequities in health in the developing world

  Nature Publishing Group, 2004

  This article from the International Journal of Obesity reports on a study which used data from national surveys in 37 developing countries to examine the social distribution of obesity among women of reproductive age.
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  The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2004

  Hunger and malnutrition cause tremendous human suffering, kill more than five million children every year, and cost developing countries billions of dollars in lost productivity and national income, according to the 2004 FAO annual hunger report.SOFI 2004 argues that the resources needed to effectively prevent this human and economic tragedy are minuscule when compared to the benefits and that
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  Gender and intrahousehold food allocation in southern Ethiopia

  Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004

  This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences.
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  Infant feeding options

  LINKAGES Project, 2004

  The risks of HIV transmission to an infant through breastfeeding are high, with policy makers and health care providers struggling to develop appropriate guidance on infant feeding for HIV-positive women.This paper discusses the latest issues in infant feeding options, with the main points including:infants can acquire HIV infection from their mothers during pregnancy, labour and deliv
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  Breastfeeding patterns and exposure to suboptimal breastfeeding among children in developing countries: review and analysis of nationally representative surveys

  BMC Medicine, 2004

  This article, published in BMC Medicine, contains what are believed to be the first global estimates of breastfeeding rates for infants aged up to six months, drawn from the analysis of survey data from 94 developing countries. Breastfeeding indicators were calculated for 135 countries by UN region.

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