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Enhancing nutrition and cost efficiency in Kenyan school meals using neglected and underutilized species and linear programming: A case study from an informal settlement by Proietti, Ilaria, Jordan, Irmgard, Borelli, Teresa

“…Incorporating NUS into school meal programs can potentially boost childhood nutrition, promote healthy eating, encourage sustainable food production, preserve food culture and heritage, and support biodiversity conservation. …”
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A&T Gujarat Implementation Research Baseline Survey 2022: Women with Children by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Women with Children Survey includes modules on: Administrative Details; Personal and Household Schedule; Household Assets and Dwelling Characteristics; Household-Level Social Protection; Exposure to Services During Pregnancy; Exposure to Services During Delivery and Early Childhood; Interaction with Frontline Workers (FLWs); Take-Home Rations (THR); Knowledge of Maternal Nutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Practices; Household Food Security; Women's Dietary Intake; Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices (for the youngest child aged 0–24 months). …”
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Aflatoxin contamination of maize flour in Kenya: Results from multi-city, multi-round surveillance by Hoffmann, Vivian, Ndisio, Boaz, Barasa, Allan, Okoth, Sheila, Murphy, Mike

“…Aflatoxin is a contaminant which causes liver cancer and has been linked to childhood stunting. We carry out systematic monitoring of formally and informally processed maize flour from a range of retail vendors across ten urban sites in Kenya and analyze aflatoxin levels in commercial samples. …”
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The impact of a nutrition-sensitive graduation model program on child nutrition: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia by Hirvonen, Kalle, Leight, Jessica, Gilligan, Daniel O., Mesfin, Hiwot Mekonnen, Mulford, Michael, Tesfaye, Haleluya

“…Supplementing the pro-gram with maternal cash transfers produced at least moderate improvements in child diet quality, early childhood development, household consumption, and assets. …”
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Varför väljer personer att studera skog och jobba i skogssektorn? by Dahlin, Anna

“…People who is working in the forest sector has responded to a survey about there childhood connection to the forest. By analyzing the answers and look for one common denominator we have one possible reason to why people choose to study at a forest university and work in the forest sector. …”
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Living, perceiving and participating in Uganda by Bergström, Erika, Thorén Lindgren, Axel

“…In the course of the study we have stumbled upon and have had to confront issues such as hierarchical structures and landscape and childhood perspectives that all affected the participatory process and the final design concept. …”
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2010 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger by von Grebmer, Klaus, Ruel, Marie T., Menon, Purnima, Nestorova, Bella, Olofinbiyi, Tolulope, Fritschel, Heidi, Yohannes, Yisehac, von Oppeln, Constanze, Towey, Olive, Golden, Kate, Thompson, Jennifer

“…Poverty-reduction strategies focused on reducing inequities are therefore part of the solution for improving early childhood nutrition, as are policies specifically aimed at improving the health, nutrition, and social status of girls and women.…”
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Do Nutrition Education Approaches With Preschoolers and Their Caregivers Influence Retention of Biofortified Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato on Farms?: Evidence From Homa Bay County, Ke... by Ojwang, S.O., Otieno, David Jakinda, Okello, J.J., Muoki, Penina Ngusye, Nyikal, R.A.

“…Conclusions: The finding implies that multichanneled agriculture-nutrition education interventions through Early Childhood Development institutions can be effective in ensuring sustainable adoption of OFSP.…”
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Why small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements should be integrated into comprehensive strategies to prevent child undernutrition in nutritionally vulnerable populations: resp... by Dewey, Kathryn G., Stewart, Christine P., McDonald, Christine M., Wessells, K. Ryan, Arnold, Charles D., Prado, Elizabeth L., Abbeddou, Souheila, Adu-Afarwuah, Seth, Arnold, Benjamin F., Ashorn, Per, Ashorn, Ulla, Ashraf, Sania, Becquey, Elodie, Black, Robert E., Brown, Kenneth H., Christian, Parul, Colford, John M., Fernald, Lia, Galasso, Emanuela, Hallamaa, Lotta, Hess, Sonja, Humphrey, Jean H., Huybregts, Lieven, Iannotti, Lora L., Jannat, Kaniz, Jimenez, Elizabeth Y., Lartey, Anna, Le Port, Agnès, Leroy, Jef L., Luby, Stephen P., Maleta, Kenneth, Matchado, Andrew, Matias, Susana L., Mbuya, Mduduzi, Mridha, Malay K., Paul, Rina R., Okronipa, Harriet, Ouedrago, Jean-Bosco, Pickering, Amy J., Prendergast, Andrew J., Ruel, Marie T., Shaikh, Saijuddin, Weber, Ann M., Wolff, Patricia

“…We write in response to the commentary by Gupta et al. (2023) on small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) for infants and young children 6 to 24 months of age, which was prompted by the recent brief guidance note from UNICEF (2023) explaining when, why and how SQ-LNS are being prioritized as part of their package of preventive actions to combat early childhood malnutrition. The UNICEF document was disseminated shortly after publication of a correspondence in Nature Food (Aguayo et al. 2023), authored by nutrition leaders from several organizations, that summarized the evidence on the benefits of SQ-LNS and called for this intervention to be scaled up and integrated into programs for populations in which child undernutrition is prevalent and dietary quality is very poor.…”
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Testing methods to increase consumption of healthy foods: Evidence from a school-based field experiment in Viet Nam by Nguyen, Trang, de Brauw, Alan, van den Berg, Marrit, Phuong Ha, Do Thi

“…Schools are an attractive entry point to improve children’s diets, as their eating habits can be shaped during childhood and the information disseminated from school can reach adults through children. …”
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WFP Cash, Food, and Voucher Study in Ecuador by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Randomization into the food treatment, cash treatment or control was done across 98 preschools, referred to as Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers. The intervention period was from February 2011 to May 2012 and included distribution of transfers on a six-to-eight-week cycle. …”
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Water, sanitation and child health: Evidence from subnational panel data in 59 countries by Headey, Derek D., Palloni, Giordano

“…Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) investments are widely seen as essential for improving health in early childhood. However, the experimental literature on WASH interventions identifies inconsistent impacts on child health outcomes, with relatively robust impacts on diarrhea and other symptoms of infection, but weak and varying impacts on child nutrition. …”
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Drivers of under-five stunting trend in 14 low- and middle-income countries since the turn of the millennium: A multilevel pooled analysis of 50 demographic and health surveys by Argaw, Alemayehu, Hanley-Cook, Giles, De Cock, Nathalie, Kolsteren, Patrick, Huybregts, Lieven, Lachat, Carl

“…The identified drivers help to guide global efforts to further accelerate stunting reduction and monitor progress against chronic childhood undernutrition.…”
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Influences of early child nutritional status and home learning environment on child development in Vietnam by Nguyen, Phuong Hong, DiGirolamo, Ann M., Gonzalez-Casanova, Ines, Young, Melissa F., Kim, Nicole, Nguyen, Son, Martorell, Reynaldo, Ramakrishnan, Usha

“…Early childhood development plays a key role in a child's future health, educational success, and economic status. …”
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Maternal depressive symptoms are negatively associated with child growth and development: Evidence from rural India by Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Friedman, Jed, Kak, Mohini, Menon, Purnima, Alderman, Harold

“…Data were from a baseline household survey (n = 2,934) of a randomized controlled trial assessing an early childhood development programme. Multivariate linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted, adjusting for socio‐economic factors to avoid confounding the association of mental health and child outcomes. …”
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Can Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) improve child growth and development? A critical review of the epidemiological foundations by Leroy, Jef L., Larson, Leila M., Brander, Rebecca L., Frongillo, Edward A., Ruel, Marie T., Avula, Rasmi

“…GMP criteria are also not meaningful for screening individual children because they do not accurately predict (low Se, low Sp, and high RMSE) inadequate growth later in childhood. The same holds for growth indices which do not accurately identify individual children at risk of concurrent or later suboptimal development. …”
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Maternal mental health is associated with child undernutrition and illness in Bangladesh, Vietnam and Ethiopia by Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Saha, Kuntal K., Ali, Disha, Menon, Purnima, Manohar, Swetha, Mai, Lan Tran, Rawat, Rahul, Ruel, Marie T.

“…Maternal CMD was strongly associated with childhood illnesses in all three countries. Interventions to support maternal mental health are important for women's own well-being and could make important contributions to improving child health and nutrition.…”
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At-scale delivery of Essential Nutrition Interventions (ENIs) in India is limited by variable gaps in policy, design, implementation and demand by Avula, Rasmi, Kim, Sunny S., Kohli, Neha, Chakrabarti, Suman, Tyagi, Parul, Singh, Kavita, van den Bold, Mara, Kadiyala, Suneetha, Menon, Purnima

“…Evidence suggests that increasing coverage of 14 ENIs from pre‐pregnancy to early childhood can reduce maternal and child undernutrition. …”
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South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative: Abstract digest August 2024 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…This issue also includes studies focusing on methods, such as measures for coverage of nutrition-sensitive social protection programs, a systematic scoping review examining aspects of quantitative nutrition research engaging with the intersectionality of inequities, a protocol to develop a data repository to support interdisciplinary research into childhood stunting, and a concept exploratory study on empowerment among adolescent girls. …”
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Undernutrition, poor feeding practices, and low coverage of key nutrition interventions by Lutter, Chessa K., Daelmans, Bernadette M. E. G., de Onis, Mercedes, Kothari, Monika, Ruel, Marie T., Arimond, Mary, Deitchler, Megan, Dewey, Kathryn G., Blössner, Monika, Borghi, Elaine

“…Although effective health-sector–based interventions for tackling childhood undernutrition are known, intervention-coverage data are available for only a small proportion of them and reveal mostly low coverage.Undernutrition continues to be high and progress toward reaching Millennium Development Goal 1 has been slow. …”
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