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Climate change, crop production and child under nutrition in Ethiopia; a longitudinal panel study
BMC Public Health, 2014Background: The amount and distribution of rainfall and temperature influences household food availability, thus increasing the risk of child under nutrition. However, few studies examined the local spatial variability and the impact of temperature and rainfall on child under nutrition at a smaller scale (resolution).DocumentChild undernutrition in Kenya: trend analyses from 1993 to 2008-09
BMC Medicine, 2014Background: Research on trends in child undernutrition in Kenya has been hindered by the challenges of changing criteria for classifying undernutrition, and an emphasis in the literature on international comparisons of countries’ situations. There has been little attention to within-country trend analyses.DocumentSustainable fisheries and aquaculture for food security and nutrition: A report by The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition
Committee on World Food Security, FAO, 2014This report has a focus on fish for food security in the face of challenges in sustainability governance and economic constraints.DocumentThe state of food insecurity in the World 2014: Strengthening the enabling environment for food security and nutrition
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014The latest FAO estimates indicate that the trend in global hunger reduction continues. About 805 million people were estimated to be chronically undernourished in 2012–14, down by more than 100 million over the last decade and by 209 million since 1990–92. However, about one in every nine people in the world still has insufficient food for an active and healthy life.DocumentCan Market-Based Approaches to Technology Development and Dissemination Benefit Women Smallholder Farmers? A Qualitative Assessment of Gender Dynamics in the Ownership, Purchase, and use of Irrigation Pumps in Kenya and Tanzania
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014Rural household economies dependent on rainfed agriculture are increasingly turning to irrigation technology solutions to reduce the effects of weather variability and guard against inconsistent and low crop output.DocumentStrategies for building resilience to hazards in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) systems: The role of public private partnerships
Elsevier, 2014Paper examining strategies to improve water, sanitation and hygiene provision and resilience, in developing urban contexts.DocumentGender inequality and maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014This summary provides an overview of how gender inequality impacts maternal and child nutrition in Northern Nigeria.DocumentORIE Nigeria Quantitative Impact Evaluation Baseline Report
Oxford Policy Management, 2014This report presents the findings from the baseline survey of the quantitative impact evaluation of the Working to Improve Nutrition in Northern Nigeria (WINNN) Programme interventions in Northern Nigeria. The household survey data collection was conducted in June 2013 and a final round of data collection is scheduled for June 2016.DocumentA systematic assessment of the current capacity to act in nutrition in West Africa: cross-country similarities and differences
2014Although it is widely accepted that lack of capacity is one of the barriers to scaling up nutrition in West Africa, there is a paucity of information about what capacities exist and the capacities that need to be developed to accelerate progress toward improved nutrition outcomes in the region.DocumentNutrition in emergencies: Do we know what worrks?
Elsevier, 2014Nutrition actions in emergencies continue to be critical to mortality reduction and to achieving broader humanitarian as well as livelihood goals in institutionally fragile environments.Pages