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    Zinc supplementation during pregnancy: does it improve mental development in children?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Zinc deficiency is common in the diet of many people in developing countries. It has been shown that adding zinc to the diet during pregnancy can help reduce infectious disease among offspring. What other effects could zinc supplements during pregnancy have on children later in life? This study examined the development of some of these children one year on.
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    Famine in Ethiopia: is food aid the answer?

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    As the world geared up to provide fourteen million Ethiopians with the food aid needed to guarantee their survival, the question remains – why is there still such widespread hunger in Ethiopia? Have donors and the Ethiopian Government failed to address the root causes of the country’s perennial food insecurity?
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    Understanding linkages between urban poverty, livelihoods and natural resources

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    How are the conditions in which the urban poor live affected by changes in rural economies? How do policies targeted at rural populations indirectly affect urbanites? Can pro-poor urban policies be developed which take into account the importance of natural resources to the urban poor?
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    Enhancing the nutritional quality of relief diets: workshop proceedings

    ProNUTRITION, 1999
    This paper reports on a workshop addressing the issue of nutritional quality of relief foods.
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    Guatemala City: a focus on working women and childcare

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003
    This paper assesses the problems that female headed household face in terms of employment and childcare in Guatemala, and examines the impact of a public daycare programme on their employment opportunities and the nutrition of their children.Findings:the number of urban women who work for an income in Guatemala increased to 28% in 1999, 20% more than at the beginning of the decade.
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    World Trade Organization: Fifth Ministerial, Cancun, Mexico

    WTO Watch Trade Observatory, IATP, 2003
    This pamphlet introduces major issues on the agenda at the Cancún WTO ministerial conference.
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    Nutrition job aids: regions with high HIV prevalence

    ProNUTRITION, 2000
    A guide for health managers who have post-natal contact with mothers. The guide offers a schedule for completion to ensure that mothers are getting suitable nutrition.
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    Pasteurized breastmilk as a replacement feed for babies of HIV-infected mothers

    ProNUTRITION, 2003
    This short report offers a guide for mothers demonstrating how they can use their own milk for their babies, while simultaneously avoiding any risk of post-partum transmission of the virus to their babies through breastfeeding. The two methods shown are flash-boiling and pretoria pasteurization
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    Agrobiodiversity strategies to combat food insecurity and HIV/AIDS impact in rural Africa

    Development Gateway, 2003
    On the basis of participatory field research conducted in different rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper demonstrates that agrobiodiversity and the associated indigenous knowledge are relevant forces to combat food insecurity and the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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    Assessment and improvement of care for AIDS-affected children under age 5

    ProNUTRITION, 2000
    Very little is known specifically about the 0-4 AIDS affected age group, since most orphan assessments treat the 0-15 (or 0-18) year age span only as a whole. Because of their nutritional, health and psycho-social needs, children under age 5 represent a group that demands special attention.

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