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    The Role of Food and Nutrition System Approaches in Tackling Hidden Hunger International

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011
    One of the World’s greatest challenges is to secure sufficient and healthy food for all, and to do so in an environmentally sustainable manner. This review explores the interrelationships of food, health, and environment, and their role in addressing chronic micronutrient deficiencies, also known as ―hidden hunger, affecting over two billion people worldwide.
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    Rising food prices and declining food security: evidence from Afghanistan

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    Food price shocks can exacerbate chronically low levels of nutrient intake in countries with large populations living in poverty with generally poor diets. This paper examines the case of Afghanistan in the 2007/08 season, when rapid rise in wheat prices impacted household food security.
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    Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2009
    This report draws on wider sources in order to identify key factors for the effective implementation of programmes to improve maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and vitamin and mineral intake for infants and young children. The report also provides information that demonstrates that improving child nutrition is entirely feasible.
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    Early Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement in Pre-school Children in Peru

    Young Lives, 2009
    The aim of this paper is to examine the link between early stunting and later cognitive achievement. It differs from nutrition–learning studies in other developing countries in that it focuses on pre-school children, and therefore time spent in school plays no role.
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    Gender influences in child survival, health and nutrition: a narrative review

    United Nations Children's Fund, 2011
    There is increasing recognition in the field of international health and nutrition that gender inequities and dynamics are a major social determinant of health and nutrition outcomes. However, reviews of evidence to date have tended to concentrate on comparisons of health and nutrition outcomes, healthcare utilisation or coverage of services/programmes between boys and girls or women and men.
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    Do Pre-natal and Post-natal Economic Shocks Have a Long-lasting Effect on the Height of 5-year-old Children?

    Young Lives, 2010
    While the Ethiopian national emergency and food security programmes support farmers hit by area-wide shocks such as crop failure, idiosyncratic shocks such as illness and death of household member, loss of assets and separation or divorce are not covered.
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    Implications for Human Development - Impacts of Food Price Volatility on Nutrition and Schooling

    Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2009
    The paper highlights the impacts of the 2007/08 food price inflation on nutrition and on school attendance. It draws on the results of studies commissioned by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Even at times of average food prices, extremely poor and food insecure families suffer malnutrition and difficulties in school.
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    The state of food insecurity in the world: addressing food insecurity in protracted crises

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2010
    The number of undernourished people in the world remains unacceptably high at near the one billion mark despite a decline in 2010 for the first time since 1995. This edition of “The State of Food Insecurity in the World” focuses on people living in a group of countries in which the incidence of hunger is particularly high and persistent.
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    Hunger pains: Pakistan’s food insecurity

    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2010
    The challenges of bringing better food security to Pakistan are immense. This collection of essays provides a broad overview of food security in Pakistan, with emphasis on the agricultural sector.
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    An evaluation of progress toward the Millennium Development Goal one hunger target: a country-level, food and nutrition security perspective

    United Nations [UN] World Food Programme, 2010
    One of the targets of the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) is to reduce the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by half between 1990 and 2015. This paper warns that many countries remain far from reaching this target, and much of the progress made has been eroded by the recent global food price and economic crises.

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