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Women’s empowerment and nutrition:what does the evidence tell us?
Transform Nutrition, 2014Development programmes aimed at alleviating poverty and improving nutrition often consider women’s empowerment as an effective way to achieve impact. However, while nutrition outcomes are often measured, effects on women’s empowerment are not always evaluated.DocumentStrengthening public health nutrition education in India
Transform Nutrition, 2014Malnutrition remains a major challenge for public health and for human and economic development in India. A lack of adequately trained public health professionals and nutritionists means that this challenge is not being met. Due to resource constraints, the most realistic way of improving this situation is to optimise the use of existingDocumentVulnerability to Food Insecurity in Urban Slums: Experiences from-Nairobi, Kenya
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2014Food and nutrition security is critical for economic development due to the role of nutrition in healthy growth and human capital development. Slum residents, already grossly affected by chronic poverty, are highly vulnerable to different forms of shocks, including those arising from political instability.DocumentDietary assessment of vitamin A and iron among pregnant women at Ndhiwa Sub District Hospital - Kenya
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2014Vitamin A and iron deficiencies are among nutritional deficiencies of public health concern in the developing countries. Infants, children, pregnant and lactating women are at high risk of both deficiencies as a result of inadequate dietary intakes and associated physiological changes that cause increased demands for nutrients.DocumentMalnutrition amidst plenty: An assessment of factors responsible for persistent high levels of childhood stunting in food secure western Uganda
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2014In spite of favourable natural and human resource capacity, malnutrition remains an important health and welfare problem in Uganda especially among children below 5 years. Western Uganda has persistently registered highest levels of childhood malnutrition despite being referred to as “the food basket” of the country.DocumentNutritional enhancement of Ghanaian weaning foods using the orange flesh sweet potato (Ipomea Batatas)
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2014Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a public health problem in Ghana. Research on the orange flesh sweet potato root has been given prominence because of its high β-carotene content as a means to enhance the nutritive value and vitamin A content of the traditional diets of Ghanaian children as a long-term intervention towards combating VAD.DocumentNutritional status of children under five years and associated factors in Mbeere South District, Kenya
African Crop Science Society, 2014Information on nutritional status of children under five years is an indicator of the nutritional situation in society. Identification of core factors influencing nutrition of this population supports plans to alleviate child malnutrition and its consequences.DocumentStrengthening implementation and utilization of nutrition interventions through research: a framework and research agenda
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2014Undernutrition among women and children contributes to almost half the global burden of child mortality in developing countries. The impact of nutrition on economic development has highlighted the need for evidence-based solutions and yielded substantial global momentum.DocumentConvergence on Nutrition in Agricultural Systems of Innovation: Concepts and Methods, with Examples from Pakistan
Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, 2014The paper first briefly sketches the origins of the system of innovation (SoI) concept and the need it was seen to fulfil in agriculture. It then illustrates the different ways it has been employed as a framework to explain how change in agricultural practices and outcomes happens and is sustained.DocumentLife in a Time of Food Price Volatility: Evidence from Two Communities in Pakistan
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This report contributes to the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project by examining the impact of food price volatility on poor and vulnerable households through qualitative research conducted in 2012 and 2013 at ‘listening posts’ in a rural and urban area of Pakistan.Pages