Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
There has been increasing recognition in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade of the significance of malnutrition as a brake on both human and economic development and a burden in the lives of many African households. Governments are taking measures to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among...
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2012
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| description | There has been increasing recognition in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade of the significance of malnutrition as a brake on both human and economic development and a burden in the lives of many African households. Governments are taking measures to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among their citizens, but the problem is serious: 57 million African children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition, and 6 million of them are acutely malnourished (Black et al. 2008). More broadly, micronutrient deficiencies remain persistently high. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1539912025-11-06T04:15:54Z Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa Namugumya, Brenda Shenute food supply nutrition policies agriculture public health nutrition health There has been increasing recognition in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade of the significance of malnutrition as a brake on both human and economic development and a burden in the lives of many African households. Governments are taking measures to reduce the prevalence of malnutrition among their citizens, but the problem is serious: 57 million African children under five years of age suffer from chronic malnutrition, and 6 million of them are acutely malnourished (Black et al. 2008). More broadly, micronutrient deficiencies remain persistently high. 2012 2024-10-01T13:58:49Z 2024-10-01T13:58:49Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153991 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896296732 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Namugumya, Brenda Shenute 2012. Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa. In Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health. Ed. Shenggen Fan and Rajul Pandya-Lorch. Chapter 19. Pp. 163-172. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153991 |
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| title | Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa |
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| title_short | Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa |
| title_sort | advocacy to reduce malnutrition in uganda some lessons for sub saharan africa |
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