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  Using Essential Nutrition Actions to accelerate coverage with nutrition interventions in high mortality settings

  Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival, USAID, 2004

  This paper examines the potentials of the ENA approach, which attempts to expand the coverage of six proven nutrition interventions by building on countries' existing nutrition work and, using delivery channels within and outside formal health structures, linking nutrition with health services and community based organisations.The six interventions of ENA are: exclusive breastfeeding (E
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  Investing in water for food, ecosystems and livelihoods: blue paper

  2004

  This paper highlights the difficult choices that must be made as mounting pressure from the world’s growing population for more food could lead to greater water consumption and increasing environmental degradation. Globally, agriculture uses between 70 to 90% of developed water supplies and the livelihoods of 70% of the world’s poor depend largely on farming.
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  Women’s health and nutrition: making a difference

  World Bank, 1994

  This paper, produced by the World Bank, provides an overview of women’s health and nutrition by considering the entire life cycle of the woman, taking into account both the specific and the cumulative effects of poor health and nutrition and the broader social issues that affect health.
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  The importance of women’s status for child nutrition in developing countries

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This report, produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, explores the relationship between women’s status and children’s nutrition through examination of data in South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The results show that women’s status has a positive influence on children’s nutritional status in all three regions.
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  The Millennium Development Goals for health: rising to the challenges

  World Bank, 2004

  This World Bank report focuses on the health and nutrition Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), assessing the progress to date and prospects for achieving these goals. The first part of the report finds that progress towards the MDGs for health has been mixed and that progress in the second half of the 1990 – 2015 window is unlikely to be better.
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  Globalisation of Indian diets and the transformation of food supply systems

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2004

  This paper examines the change in the nature of food demand in India over the last twenty years.Highlights of the paper include:the impact of globalisation has accelerated the nature of dietary change and this has implications for food supply systemsIndia has experienced two distinct stages of diet transition in association with its economic growth during the first stage of diet
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  Regulatory barriers in international horticultural markets

  Economic Research Service, USDA, 2004

  During the Uruguay round of negotiations in 1995 WTO members agreed to multilateral rules governing the use of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (the SPS Agreement). These aimed to ensure that measures adopted by countries ostensibly to protect plant or human health were not in fact primarily in force to shield domestic producers from competition.
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  Childhood poverty in Rajasthan: a review of literature

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between livelihoods and childhood poverty and wellbeing, and identifies some of the mechanisms by which poverty is transferred across generations.
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  Actual or potential uses of RRA/PRA methods in health nutrition

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 1992

  This International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) note is the summary of ideas that came from a two day workshop on PRA (Participatory rural appraisal) Applications in Health and Nutrition, at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS).
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  Nutritional care and support for people living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda: guidelines for service providers

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004

  This document is a set of guidelines which outlines the nutritional needs of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), and includes the steps that service providers can take to help PLWHA manage symptoms and improve health through nutrition.

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