Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi
Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive intervent...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2018
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| author | Leroy, Jef L. Olney, Deanna K. Ruel, Marie T. Brown, Tracy |
| author_browse | Brown, Tracy Leroy, Jef L. Olney, Deanna K. Ruel, Marie T. |
| author_facet | Leroy, Jef L. Olney, Deanna K. Ruel, Marie T. Brown, Tracy |
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| description | Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive interventions—those that target all mothers during pregnancy and the first 6 months of lactation as well as children between 6 and 24 months old (the first 1,000 days)—are more effective than traditional recuperative interventions. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1455142025-11-06T06:23:40Z Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi Leroy, Jef L. Olney, Deanna K. Ruel, Marie T. Brown, Tracy child nutrition nutrition policies stunting hunger evaluation malnutrition nutrition health services development programmes food aid maternal nutrition project evaluation behavioural responses Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive interventions—those that target all mothers during pregnancy and the first 6 months of lactation as well as children between 6 and 24 months old (the first 1,000 days)—are more effective than traditional recuperative interventions. 2018-03-22 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z 2024-06-21T09:04:36Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145514 en https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(08)60271-8 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Leroy, Jef L.; Olney, Deanna K.; Ruel, Marie T.; and Brown, Tracy. 2018. Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145514 |
| spellingShingle | child nutrition nutrition policies stunting hunger evaluation malnutrition nutrition health services development programmes food aid maternal nutrition project evaluation behavioural responses Leroy, Jef L. Olney, Deanna K. Ruel, Marie T. Brown, Tracy Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title | Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title_full | Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title_fullStr | Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title_short | Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi |
| title_sort | optimizing food assistance programs food assistance improves child growth in burundi |
| topic | child nutrition nutrition policies stunting hunger evaluation malnutrition nutrition health services development programmes food aid maternal nutrition project evaluation behavioural responses |
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