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  Social impact of the economic crisis on vulnerable children in Thailand

  World Bank, 1998

  Aims to assess the key social impacts of the economic crisis in Thailand and its possible implications for children and their families in Thailand and neighbouring countries.Impacts of the economic crisis on Thailand include: unemployment rapidly rose in rural areas.
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  Facts for life

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2002

  This report contains information on safe motherhood, early childhood development, nutrition, HIV/AIDS and other major causes of childhood illnesses and death.
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  The situation of children in Iraq

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2003

  This report describes the political and socio-economic context of Iraq, the causes of increased infant mortality since the end of the 1980s, and the efforts made by UNICEF to improve child and maternal nutrition, health and sanitation.
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  HIV/AIDS, food security and rural livelihoods: understanding and responding

  Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security, 2003

  This working paper is published by the Regional Network on HIV/AIDS, Rural Livelihoods and Food Security (RENEWAL). It describes key concepts which it argues need to be understood by agricultural, food, and nutrition-relevant organisations attempting to respond to HIV and AIDS effectively.
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  HIV/AIDS: a guide for nutrition, care and support

  ProNUTRITION, 2001

  This paper provides information for HIV/AIDS-affected households and communities on how to live a healthy life from the time of infection with HIV through the progression of the disease.The information focuses on dietary and care practices for adults during different stages of HIV and also provides suggestions for all household and community members coping with the infection and trying to maint
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  Does subsidized childcare help poor working women in urban areas?: evaluation of a government-sponsored program in Guatemala City

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper presents an evaluation and impact assessment (1998) of the urban Hogares Comunitarios Program (HCP), Guatemala, a government-sponsored pilot programme designed to alleviate poverty by providing working parents with low-cost, quality childcare within their community.
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  FAO's strategy for a food chain approach to food safety and quality: a framework document for the development of future strategic direction

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  The 28th Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) discussed, inter alia, the issue of food safety and quality.
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  A summary report from the Mexico Action Summit

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2003

  Participants at the Mexico Action Summit explored how increased food production to feed the rural poor can be made compatible with natural resource management and biodiversity stewardship.
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  Nutritional considerations in Norwegian development cooperation

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2000

  The purpose of the assignment is to develop a resource document which:explains why the food and nutrition component has a natural place in development cooperation aimed at poverty reduction and human developmentprovides updated information concerning events and operating parameters for such cooperationprovides suggestions for how nutrition may be incorporated into NORAD’s activitie
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  The role of livestock in mitigating land degredation, poverty and child malnutrition in mixed farming systems: the case of coffee-growing midlands of Sidama - Ethiopia

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1998

  This study illustrates the role played by livestock in alleviating land degradation, poverty and the resulting child malnutrition in integrated farming systems in Ethiopia.

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