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    Occupation and Omega3: What happened to the Western Sahara fish oil trade?

    2014
    Western Sahara was invaded by Morocco in late 1975 and remains mostly occupied by it today. The fishing industry is controlled by the Moroccan government.
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    Poor nutrition status and associated feeding practices among HIV-positive children in a food secure region in Tanzania: a call for tailored nutrition training

    PLoS ONE, 2014
    Undernutrition among HIV-positive children can be ameliorated if they are given adequate foods in the right frequency and diversity. Food insecurity is known to undermine such efforts, but even in food rich areas, people have undernutrition.
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    Integrating severe accute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan

    Malaria Consortium, 2013
    South Sudan ranks 15th highest in the world in terms of mortality rates for children under five. Malnutrition is widespread throughout the country with 28 percent of children under five being underweight, 31 percent stunted and 23 percent wasted.
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    Strengthening the links between resilience and nutrition: a proposed approach

    2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2014
    This brief attempts to bring together the thinking on nutrition and resilience, to clarify the role of food and agriculture in each of these agendas, and to define potential synergies between nutrition and resilience concepts and programmes.
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    Planning and costing for the acceleration of actions for nutrition: experiences of countries in the Movement for Scaling Up Nutrition

    Scaling Up Nutrition, 2014
    This report is a synthesis of work undertaken by countries in the movement for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN). The costed nutrition plans for 20 countries are analysed, looking at the assumptions made, the priority areas and targets which were set and the methods used, to determine whether they are responsive to the identified needs.
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    Obesity update 2014

    Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2014
    Until 1980, fewer than one in ten people were obese in OECD countries. In the following decades, rates doubled or tripled, and are continuing to grow, and new data from ten OECD countries confirm that the obesity epidemic has not stopped spreading. This briefing makes the following key points:
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    "You can't study if you're hungry...": Report of a Parliamentary delegation to Tanzania

    RESULTS UK, 2013
    In November 2013 Mark Williams MP and Cathy Jamieson MP visited nutrition and education programmes in Tanzania, accompanied by staff from RESULTS UK. The aim of the delegation was to assess how Tanzania is addressing major development challenges related to early childhood development including undernutrition and its impact on children’ s ability to learn.
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    Nutrition at a glance: Tanzania

    World Bank, 2011
    This short document provides a snapshot of the status of nutrition in Tanzania. It provides information on the country context, the costs of undernutrition, nutrition statistics, key actions to address malnutrition and solutions to primary causes of undernutrition.
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    Stunting among children: facts and implications

    Princeton University Library, 2013
    This article reviews the data and literature on malnutrition and stunting among children, primarily, in India. The authors specifically compare growth and development between children in India and Sub-Saharan Africa and focus on three specific areas, namely: Importance of disease environment Impact of open defecation Women's status
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    Where do the world’s poor live? A new update

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
    This paper revisits, with new data, the changes in the distribution of global poverty towards middle-income countries (MICs). In doing so it discusses an implied 'poverty paradox' – the fact that most of the world's extreme poor no longer live in the world’s poorest countries.

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