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  Mainstreaming nutrition for improved development outcomes

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003

  This paper brings together a collection of articles from the symposium ‘mainstreaming nutrition for improved development outcomes’.
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  Food energy: methods of analysis and conversion factors

  Food and Nutrition Division, FAO, 2003

  Expert reviews of energy requirements have not examined closely the possible implications and effects that using different expressions of energy values of foods may have on the recommendations for requirements.
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  Ensuring the rights of indigenous children

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2003

  This paper discusses the rights of indigenous children.
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  Report on the nutritional situation of refugees and displaced populations

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003

  This is a quarterly report providing information on emergency affected populations. It gives a brief situation update and information on nutrition, mortality rates, health and food security in refugee and displaced populations.
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  Improving the health of newborns in Indonesia

  Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, 2003

  This report, produced by PATH, follows the implementation of a USAID-funded programme to improve the health and survival of newborn babies and infants in Indonesia. Entitled Awal A Sehat Untuk Hidup Sehat or ASUH, meaning “A Healthy Start for a Healthy Life”, it ran from November 2000 to September 2003 and cost $4.7 million.
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  What can food policy do to redirect the diet transition?

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  Is there a case for public investment in efforts to influence the transition toward increasingly healthy outcomes? This paper argues that with the existence of information asymmetries and negative externalities there is.The paper looks at what food policy can do and identifies a number of options from the food supply and demand sides.
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  Crossing boundaries to reduce malnutrition? An institutional study of agriculture and nutrition in Uganda, Mozambique and Nigeria

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2003

  This study examines how agriculturalists and nutritionists in Uganda, Mozambique, and Nigeria might work more closely together to reduce malnutrition, hunger, and poverty.The study concludes that the two professional communities are missing important opportunities to collaborate that would have a positive impact on people’s nutritional well being.
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  Nutrition in the context of conflict and crisis

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2002

  This newsletter brings together a collaboration of papers from the symposium on nutrition in conflict and crisis.
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  Transcending boundaries to improve the food security of AIDS affected households in rural Uganda

  International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2003

  This paper from the International Center for Research on Women provides information on the implementation of a collaborative project to improve household food security in rural Ugandan communities affected by HIV and AIDS. The aim of the project is increased collaboration between communities and specialists to improve the ability of households to meet their food security needs.
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  Food security and the millennium development goal on hunger in Asia

  Overseas Development Institute, 2003

  This paper provides an overview of food security issues in relation to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, China, Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.It identifies the key issues relating to food security in Asia, setting out progress and the prospects for achieving the MDG on hunger and analysing how these issues are likely to develop in 10 to 25 years time, in par

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