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  Nutrition Research in India: Underweight, Stunted, or Wasted?

  Global Heart, 2013

  In this paper, the authors analyze trends in India's nutrition research output from the periods 2000 to 2005 and 2006 to 2010, in terms of quantity (measured by number of publications) and quality (measured by impact factor) and compare it to China, another rapidly growing emerging economy facing similar dual health threats, and the USA, a developed country with a well-established field of
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  The national employment guarantee scheme and inequities in household spending on food and non-food determinants of health in rural India

  International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013

  Inequities in a population in spending on food and non-food items can contribute to disparities in health status. The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) was launched in rural India in 2006, aimed at providing at least 100 days of manual work to a member in needy households.
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  Disadvantageous situation of tribal women and children or Orissa, India: A special reference to their health and nutritional status

  Journal of Community Nutrition & Health, 2013

  Orissa, one of the most scenic state in eastern India occupies a unique place in the tribal map of the country having largest number of tribal communities with a population of 8.2 million constituting 22.3% of
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  Awareness on causes, consequences and preventive measures of obesity among urban married women in India

  International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2013

  In spite of the numerous chronic diseases that have been linked to obesity, studies focusing on the awareness regarding causes, consequences and strategies to prevent and control of obesity among women are lacking in the literature, especially in developing countries such as India, where obesity is culturally accepted and nurtured and women bearded the highest weight gain in the recent decade.
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  Vitamin A supplementation among children in India: Does their socioeconomic status and the economic and social development status of their state of residence make a difference?

  International Journal of Medicine and Public Health, 2013

  India has the largest percentage/number of vitamin A deficient children in the world. However, the effectiveness of a program of vitamin A supplementation at the population level has been rarely examined.
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  Quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of drip irrigation kits in alleviating food shortages and its success in Zimbabwe: a case study of Gweru and Bikita districts

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008

  About 23,000 drip kits were distributed in 53 districts of Zimbabwe by 20 NonGovernmental Organizations with the assistance of LEAD Zimbabwe and USAID/OFDA between 2003 and 2006. The program’s objective was to mitigate the food shortage crisis in Zimbabwe by helping families grow their own vegetables and earn extra income.
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  Evaluation of USAID/OFDA small scale irrigation (treadle pump) program in ZAMBIA

  Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Policy Analysis Network, 2008

  readle pumps are a low-cost technology that has proven effective in increasing small-holder productivity and incomes in Asia, and increasingly in selected parts of Africa. This additional household income provides for a more drought-resistant livelihood.
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  Does the urban disadvantage still hold? Have the lives of Nairobi’s urban poor improved?

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014

  The Nairobi Cross-sectional Slums Survey of 2000 brought to light for the very first time, the plight of slum residents highlighting: their limited access to education, health care, reproductive health and family planning services; the debilitating environment including inadequate access to water and sanitation, poor housing conditions and poor livelihood opportunities.
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  Do Girls Have a Nutritional Disadvantage Compared with Boys? Statistical Models of Breastfeeding and Food Consumption Inequalities among Indian Siblings

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  India is the only nation where girls have greater risks of under-5 mortality than boys. The article explains whether female disadvantage in breastfeeding and food allocation accounts for gender disparities in mortality.
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  Water wars: enduring myth or impending reality

  African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2000

  Within the context of the South, water security does not simply translate into economic development, but also food security, and the very survival of states and their citizens. Under these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that the World Commission on the Environment and Development (WCED) has concluded that such resource conflicts are likely to increase as those resources become scarcer.

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