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  Essential safety requirements for street-vended foods

  Department of Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, World Health Organization, 1996

  This paper assess the public health risks associated with street foods. Risks come from Lack of basic infrastructure and services, such as potable water supplies.Difficulty in controlling the large numbers of street food vending operations because of their diversity, mobility and temporary nature.Insufficient resources for inspection and laboratory analysis.General lack of f
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  Urban challenges to food and nutrition security

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  This research centre holds information from IFPRI's research program Urban Challenges to Food and Nutrition Security.
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  Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2000

  This document reports on the DFID/NRI/FRI workshop on food security.
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  Food safety in crop post harvest systems

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2001

  This report compiles presentations and reports from a Crop Post Harvest Programme (CPHP) workshop on food safety post harvest.
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  Handbook: developing and applying national guidelines on nutrition and HIV/AIDS

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2003

  Although other guides have been produced detailing general, ethical guidelines on nutrition for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). The content of these guides is appropriate for the majority of countries in the region.
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  Does better nutrition cause economic growth?: the efficiency cost of hunger revisited

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper considers the impact of the nutritional status on the growth rate of real GDP per capita.In particular, a panel of 114 countries’ Dietary Energy Supply (DES) per capita from 1961 to 1999 is combined with the latest release of real GDP per capita data from the World Bank.
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  Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2003

  Contains the best currently available scientific evidence on the relationship of diet, nutrition and physical activity to chronic diseases. The report examines cardiovascular diseases, several forms of cancer, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis and dental disease.
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  More calories or more diversity?: an econometric evaluation of the impact of the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO transfer programs on food security in rural Mexico

  Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2002

  This paper examines the PROGRESA and PROCAMPO cash transfer programs in Mexico and evaluates their impact on household food security and nutrition.
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  Recommendations on the role of nutrition, food supplements and traditional herbal therapies in promoting good health and combating diseases including HIV/AIDS.

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2003

  This is a brief statement published following the SADC Health Ministerial Consultative Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 20-21 January 2003.The meeting of Ministers deliberated on strategies to urgently and effectively address the prevailing HIV/AIDS situation in the SADC region and the current food crisis.
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  Effective food and nutrition policy responses to HIV/AIDS: what we know and what we need to know

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002

  This paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute reviews the ways in which HIV and AIDS impact on assets and institutions generally, as well as agriculture, natural resource management, food security, and nutrition. The authors argue that the role of the food and nutrition sectors is in mitigation, which is also an effective form of prevention.

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