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  Nutrition Embedding Evaluation Gap Analysis

  2014

  Nutrition Embedding Evaluation Programme (NEEP) aims to address knowledge gaps on the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of maternal and child nutrition interventions and how they can be delivered at scale. To this end, a process to identify and prioritise evaluation activities that address evidence gaps was conducted at the program start.
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  Advances in Nutrition

  Advances in Nutrition publishes articles that highlight the significance of recent research. It is published by the American Society for Nutrition.
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  Understanding sustainable diets: a descriptive analysis of the determinants and processes that influence diets and their impact on health, food security, and environmental sustainability

  Advances in Nutrition, 2014

  This study argues that the concept of sustainable diets presents an opportunity to advance sustainable development and work for the elimination of poverty, food and nutrition insecurity, and poor health outcomes. This study examines the determinants of sustainable diets, offers a descriptive analysis of these areas, and presents a causal model and framework from which to build.
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  Highlighting the evidence gap: how cost-effective are interventions to improve early childhood nutrition and development?

  Oxford Journals, 2014

  There is growing evidence of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions to improve the growth and development of children. Although, historically, nutrition and stimulation interventions may have been delivered separately, they are increasingly being tested as a package of early childhood interventions that improve outcomes over the life course.
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  Follow-up of post-discharge growth and mortality after treatment for severe acute malnutrition (FuSAM Study): a prospective cohort study

  PLoS ONE, 2014

  Management of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) plays a vital role in achieving global child survival targets. Effective treatment programmes are available but little is known about longer term outcomes following programme discharge.1024 children were admitted to an inpatient-based SAM treatment centre in Blantyre, Malawi, between July 2006 and March 2007.
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  Development and acceptability testing of ready-to-use supplementary food made from locally available food ingredients in Bangladesh

  BioMed Central, 2014

  Inadequate energy and micronutrient intake during childhood is a major public health problem in developing countries. Ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) made of locally available food ingredients can improve micronutrient status and growth of children. The objective of this study was to develop RUSF using locally available food ingredients and test their acceptability.
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  What are the Factors Enabling and Constraining Effective Leaders in Nutrition? A Four Country Study

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  Leadership has been identified as a key factor in supporting action on nutrition in countries experiencing a high burden of childhood undernutrition.
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  Children’s multidimensional health and medium-run cognitive skills

  Young Lives, 2014

  By recognising the multifaceted nature of health, this paper engages in the lively debate on the effects of health in early childhood on educational outcomes in later life stages, bringing new evidence from four low-and middle-income countries.
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  Linking small holder agriculture to school food provision

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2010

  Home grown School Feeding (HGSF) in Sub-Saharan Africa is seen as a key tool in the transition towards nationally owned school feeding programmes. However, to support the transition from externally driven school feeding to HGSF, the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) - a global consortium of concerned organisations and experts - has launched a new programme.
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  HGSF working paper series #2: linking agricultural development to school feeding

  Home Grown School Feeding, 2010

  Home-grown school feeding (HGSF) approach is conceived of as combining two distinct policy objectives: a social protection objective focused on the health and nutritional status of school-age children, and a focus on the economic and technical transformation of small-scale agriculture.

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