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  Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

  Economic and Social Research Council, UK, 2009

  Numerous reports have linked AIDS’ impacts on young people and their long term food insecurity, through, for instance, orphans’ failure to inherit property and resources; inability to retain rights to land which they are too young or inexperienced to farm; or interruption of intergenerational knowledge transfer following parental deaths.
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  Averting ‘New Variant Famine’ in Southern Africa: building food secure rural livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2009

  Southern Africa is experi-encing the world’s highest HIV prevalence rates alongside recurrent food crises. This has prompted scholars to hypothesise a 'New Variant Famine' in which inability to access food is driven by the ef-fects of AIDS.
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  Measuring health and well-being of young people in the Transfer Project

  UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2015

  This policy brief addresses the knowledge gap that exists about the effectiveness of cash transfer programmes to impact young people’s health, development and well-being.
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  Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  There is now substantial evidence that periodic cash transfers to poor households as a form of social protection, particularly when conditional on complementary investments in child schooling and health, can lead to substantial and sustained improvements in household welfare, household food security and child schooling.
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  The impact of an unconditional cash transfer on food security and nutrition: the Zambia child grant programme

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014

  The Child Grant Programme is one of the Government of Zambia’s largest social protection programmes. The programme provides a monthly cash payment of 60 kwacha (US$12) to very poor households with children under five years old.
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  Child labour in cocoa farming in Cote D’Ivorie

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2013

  The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, a West African nation is the leading supplier of cocoa accounting for more than 40 percent of global production. However this production is undertaken using child labour.
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  Dirty cotton - a research on child labour, slavery, trafficking and exploitation in cotton and cotton seed farming in India

  Global March Against Child Labour, 2012

  The introduction of genetically modified or BT cotton in India has increased the demand for cheap labour.  Recognising the need to understand and address the growing concern over the engagement of children in the cotton industry in India, this study examines the issue of child labour in four cotton and cotton seed growing states in – Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka and Maharashtra
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  Prioritising nutrition in order to achieve the MDGs in India

  Young Lives, 2012

  Malnutrition causes long-term damage to children’s development, with huge social and economic costs. It affects not only children’s physical development but also their cognitive development, so reducing future productivity and leading ultimately to economic loss for the nation as a whole.
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  Malnutrition in South-Asia. Poverty, diet or lack of female empowerment?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2012

  Despite economic growth, and a reduction in poverty, malnutrition is still rampant in South-Asia. This indicates that non-economic factors are important, and we use a nation-wide survey from Nepal to identify factors that may explain why small children are stunted.
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  Tracking progress on child and maternal nutrition

  United Nations Children's Fund, 2009

  This report draws on wider sources in order to identify key factors for the effective implementation of programmes to improve maternal nutrition, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, and vitamin and mineral intake for infants and young children. The report also provides information that demonstrates that improving child nutrition is entirely feasible.

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