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    Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition

    The Global Panel is an independent group of influential experts with a commitment to tackling global challenges in food and nutrition security.Objectives:
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    Cultivating nutritious food systems: a snapshot report

    Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, 2014
    This report is the first in a series of snapshot reports by GAIN. It follows nutrition along the agricultural supply chain and explores the success stories and challenges where agriculture and nutrition are working together.
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    The link between food, nutrition, diet and non-communicable diseases

    World Cancer Research Fund International, 2014
    This brief addresses why non-communicable diseases (NCDs) need to be considered when addressing major nutritional challenges:
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    How can agriculture and food system policies improve nutrition?

    Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 2014
    Governments the world over are focused as never before on the importance of linking agriculture and food markets with improved health and nutrition. Recent food price volatility, expected population and food demand growth, changing dietary patterns and the threat of climate change are all factors adding complexity to the challenge of achieving food and nutrition security.
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    Action to improve nutrition: making ICN2 count over the next decade and beyond

    Action Against Hunger, 2014
    This report presents actions ACF believe are essential to ensure the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), held from 19 to 21 November 2014, is not simply a talking shop but the moment the world was ignited to implement action.
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    Writing About Nutrition in Indian Newspapers: Lessons Learned from the OneWorld POSHAN Media Fellowship

    International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    To try to raise the profile of nutrition in the Indian media, POSHAN and the OneWorld Foundation, India (OWFI) co-implemented the six-month OneWorld-POSHAN Fellowship on Maternal and Child Undernutrition. 
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    Effective modalities to improve pregnant women’s compliance to daily iron supplementation

    Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2012
    Prenatal Iron Supplementation (PIS) has a paramount contribution for reducing maternal mortality. The coverage and compliance in Ethiopia is 17.3 per cent and 0.4 per cent respectively. The aim of this study is to determine the coverage of and adherence to prenatal IFS (Iron Folic acid Supplementation) and to identify factors affecting utilization of the service.
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    The 2013 HANCI Donor Report

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    The HANCI donor index is a league table that measures the political commitment of donor governments to reducing hunger and nutrition in developing countries. The index seeks to hold donors to account and assesses their performance against 14 indicators spanning the dimensions of agriculture and food security, nutrition, climate change, gender and social protection.
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    Assessment of status of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practice, policy and programs: achievements and gaps in Ethiopia

    Ethiopian Public Health Institute, 2013
    Breastfeeding is universal in Ethiopia. Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey indicates that only 52 per cent of children under six months are exclusively breastfed despite the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation of exclusive breastfeeding for up to the first six months of life.
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    Stepping up to the challenge – Six Issues facing global climate change and food security

    Climate Change Agriculture Food Security, 2014
    There are several complex and interrelated challenges and barriers to achieving global food and nutrition security in an increasingly variable  climate. Without urgent action for mitigation and adaptation, the world faces more loss and damage and this will further threaten the productive capacity and long-term viability of smallholder farmers.

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