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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Main Author: Namugumya, Brenda Shenute
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153991
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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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public health
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health
Namugumya, Brenda Shenute
Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
title Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr 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
topic food supply
nutrition policies
agriculture
public health
nutrition
health
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