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  Meeting the challenge to improve complementary feeding

  United Nations [UN] Standing Committee on Nutrition, 2003

  This issue focuses on the importance of complementary feeding in childhood and its role in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It offers an up-to-date and multi-disciplinary overview on the challenges and benefits of complementary feeding. It also highlights recent actions for its improvement.
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  Entitlement failure from a food quality perspective: the life and death role of vitamins and minerals in humanitarian crises

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2006

  If death from crisis-related famines is typically the result of individuals’ ability to purchase available food, as Amartya Sen and others have frequently argued, solutions should address incomes and markets to enable populations to acquire the food they need.
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  Civil society organisation (CSO) experiences of monitoring of food security issues in Zambia

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2005

  Food security can be used as an indicator to measure the impact of poverty eradication programmes. This report from Zambia reinforces the value of collaborative, yet alternate strategies for assessing food security in different contexts, which then provides input for Government policy and poverty reduction strategies.
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  Household dietary diversity score (HDDS) for measurement of household food access: indicator guide

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2005

  This guide provides an approach to measuring household dietary diversity as a proxy measure of household food access. To better reflect a quality diet, the number of different food groups consumed is calculated, rather than the number of different foods consumed.It provides guidance on the specific data collection needs for the HDDS indicator, including a questionnaire.
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  Women’s nutrition throughout the life cycle and in the context of HIV and AIDS: training of trainers module

  LINKAGES Project, 2005

  Produced by the Linkages Project, this training module is intended to provide instructors with the basic theory to train health workers on women’s nutrition, with a focus on the complete life cycle.
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  Brazil: are health and nutrition programs reaching the neediest?

  Health, Nutrition and Population Division, Human Development Department, World Bank, 2005

  This paper assesses the impact of Brazil’s Family Health Program (PSF), designed to provide high quality primary health care especially to the poorest.
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  The use of operations research as a tool for monitoring and managing food-assisted maternal/child health and nutrition (MHCN) programs: an example from Haiti

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005

  This report documents research undertaken to assess the effectiveness of World Vision’s (WV) food assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (MCHN) programme in the Central Plateau region of Haiti.
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  Community Therapeutic Care (CTC): a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond

  Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, 2004

  This technical note from the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project answers key questions on Community Therapeutic Care (CTC). CTC is a new approach to managing acute malnutrition in emergencies and beyond. It aims to provide rapid, effective and low cost assistance that is least disruptive to affected communities.
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  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project workshop reports 2001-2004

  Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage Project, 2004

  This website offers updates on the projects and programmes being conducted by the Agriculture-Nutrition Advantage project.
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  Halving hunger: it can be done

  Millennium Project, 2005

  This final report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Hunger sets out it’s recommendations and interventions for achieving the millennium development goal of halving world hunger by 2015. The report initially examines progress to date with achieving the goal before defining the strategic approach which informs their plans to meet the targets by 2015.

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