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  Have gun give food: agriculture, nutrition, and civil wars in Sub-Saharan Africa

  WIDER Conference on Making Peace Work, 2004

  This working paper, presented at the UNU-WIDER Conference on “Making Peace Work”, considers whether nutritional and agricultural crises may contribute to triggering civil war in Sub-Saharan Africa.From a statistical analysis of the relationship between nutritional and agricultural variables and the outbreak of civil war, the authors find that:protein and calorie supply are statistically
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  Copenhagen Consensus: hunger and malnutrition

  Copenhagen Consensus, 2004

  This paper examines the economic aspects of chronic hunger and malnutrition arguing that better nutrition can both reduce the economic drain on poor societies and help them become wealthier by increasing individuals' productivity.The paper begins be reviewing the scale and nature of the problem, for example by examining the numbers of people being affected as well as the socio-economic breakdow
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  Community-based food and nutrition programmes: a review and analysis of experience

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report details a process by the Food and Agriculture Organisation aimed at developing a methodology that allows an in-depth assessments of community-based food and nutrition programmes.
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  Water: more nutrition per drop: towards sustainable food production and consumption patterns in a rapidly changing world

  Stockholm International Water Institute, 2004

  The report highlights key facts, conditions and trends regarding water internationally. It explores water's relationship to sustainable food production and consumption patterns. It also highlights key water-food-nutrition-environment-livelihood trends, provides response options, and illustrates important policy directions. Five key issues for policy debate are identified within the report:
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  5th report on the world nutrition situation: nutrition for improved development outcomes

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2004

  This report is the fifth in a series from the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition (SCN) on the nutritional status of populations in developing countries. It finds that malnutrition is decreasing steadily in much of the world and that several countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been able to reduce malnutrition rates under difficult circumstances.
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  Undernutrition as an underlying cause of malaria, morbidity and mortality

  Disease Control Priorities Project, Maryland, 2003

  This review examines the global burden of malaria associated with various nutrient deficiencies as well as underweight status and determines that, although the association is complex and requires additional research, improved nutritional status lessens the severity of malaria episodes and results in fewer deaths due to malaria.The review finds that evidence strongly suggests that micronutrient
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  Assuring food and nutrition security in Africa by 2020: a way forward from the 2020 Africa Conference

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This report is the draft outcome document of the Conference on Assuring Food and Nutrition Security in Africa by 2020 held from 1-3 April 2004.
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  The agriculture, nutrition, and HIV/AIDS connections in developing countries

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 2003

  This essay, invited by USAID, explores the connections between rural poverty, undernutrition, and HIV and AIDS in developing nations and aims to suggest specific cross-sector investment strategies that can be used more effectively to combat the three. It argues that poverty is principally a rural problem, and that undernutrition and HIV and AIDS are closely associated with rural poverty.
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  At least one-third of poor countries' disease burden is due to malnutrition

  Disease Control Priorities Project, Maryland, 2003

  This paper, from the Disease Control Priorities Project (DCPP), assesses the impact of improving nutrition in terms of reducing the burden of disease in developing countries. The paper estimates that if underweight were removed, the burden of disease would be reduced by about 20 per cent. Eliminating micronutrient malnutrition would reduce the burden by a further 18 per cent.
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  Antenatal care in developing countries: promises, achievements and missed opportunities

  World Health Organization, 2003

  This report, produced by the World Health Organization (WHO), analyses patterns and trends in antenatal care use, using data drawn from household surveys carried out in developing countries from 1990 to 2001.

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