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Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program by Chakrabarti, Suman, Scott, Samuel P., Alderman, Harold, Menon, Purnima, Gilligan, Daniel O.

“…Using nationally representative data on mothers and their children spanning 1993 to 2016, we assess whether MDM supports intergenerational improvements in child linear growth. Here we report that height-for-age z-score (HAZ) among children born to mothers with full MDM exposure was greater (+0.40 SD) than that in children born to non-exposed mothers. …”
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Civil conflict, cash transfers, and child nutrition in Yemen by Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-Francois

“…Our results show that a one-standard-deviation increase in armed conflict intensity reduces the weight-for-height z-scores (WHZ) of children by 9.6%, on average. …”
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Food transfers, cash transfers, behavior change communication and child nutrition: Evidence from Bangladesh by Ahmed, Akhter, Hoddinott, John F., Roy, Shalini

“…Intent-to-treat estimators show that cash transfers and nutrition BCC had a large impact on nutritional status, a 0.25 standard deviation increase in height-for-age z-scores and a 7.8 percentage point decrease in stunting prevalence. …”
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HarvestPlus Bangladesh Bio-fortified Rice Project: Baseline Dietary Survey by International Food Policy Research Institute, University of California, Davis, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

“…Dietary information was collected primarily by direct observation and weighing of food preparation and consumption, including test weighing of milk intakes by breast-fed children. Height and weight were measured in all children, and in a subset of children, blood samples were collected and analyzed for concentrations of serum zinc and indicators of infection.…”
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Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey (BIHS) 2018-2019 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…BIHS is the only nationally representative survey in Bangladesh that collects detailed data on (1) plot-level agricultural production and practices, (2) dietary intake of individual household members, (3) anthropometric measurements (height and weight) of all household members, and (4) data to measure women’s empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI). …”
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Improvement of cool-season food legumes for adaptation to intercropping systems: breeding faba bean for intercropping with durum wheat as a case study by Abou-Khater, Lynn, Maalouf, Fouad, Balech, Rind, He, Yuhua, Zong, Xuxiao, Rubiales, Diego, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar

“…The case study of faba bean–wheat intercropping was used to select for traits associated with better performance offaba bean, resulting in identifying the combined grain yield, 100-seed weight, number of pods per plant, and canopy height as key traits for faba bean–wheat intercropping suitability. …”
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Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition? New evidence from an impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition Program by Kurdi, Sikandra, Breisinger, Clemens, Ibrahim, Hosam, Ghorpade, Yashodhan, Al-Ahmadi, Afrah

“…The program in Yemen combined cash transfers with nutritional education using soft conditionality, with significant positive impacts on maternal and child dietary diversity, children’s height and weight measures, and the likelihood of children being diagnosed with moderate or severe acute malnutrition.…”
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Impacts of the 2016/17 food insecurity response program on maize prices in Malawi by Baulch, Bob, Gondwe, Anderson, Chafuwa, Chiyembekezo

“…Using daily information on maize prices, and food and cash transfers from ten major markets during the height of the FIRP, we employ time series methods to analyze the properties of the series and model the formation of maize prices using autoregressive distributed lag models.…”
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Impacts of the 2016/17 food insecurity response program on maize prices in Malawi: Synopsis by Baulch, Bob, Gondwe, Anderson, Chafuwa, Chiyembekezo

“…Using daily information on maize prices, and food and cash transfers from ten major markets during the height of the FIRP, we employ time series methods to analyze the properties of the series and model the formation of maize prices using autoregressive distributed lag models.…”
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Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic by Kosec, Katrina, Shemyakina, Olga

“…We find that children exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height and weight, both critical measures of long-term health and nutrition. …”
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Does market access mitigate the impact of seasonality on child growth? Panel data evidence from northern Ethiopia by Abay, Kibrewossen, Hirvonen, Kalle

“…In line with earlier studies, we document considerable seasonality in children’s age and height adjusted weights. While children located closer to local food markets are better nourished compared to their counterparts residing in more remote areas, their weights are also subject to considerable seasonality. …”
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Genetic and morphological characterisation of the Ankole Longhorn cattle in the African Great Lakes region by Ndumu, D., Baumung, R., Hanotte, Olivier H., Wurzinger, Maria, Okeyo Mwai, Ally, Kibogo, H., Sölkner, Johann, Han Jianlin

“…Femoral length, horn length, horn circumference, rump height, body length and fore-limb circumference showed the largest differences between regions. …”
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Unpacking the links between conflict and child welfare: Evidence from a foreign insurgency by Kaila, Heidi, Nawo, Larissa, Son, Hyuk

“…We find that Boko Haram attacks lead to an immediate decrease in weight-for-height for children under five – an indicator of short- term health and nutrition. …”
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Program evaluation with unobserved heterogeneity and selective implementation: the Mexican Progresa impact on child nutrition by Behrman, Jere R., Hoddinott, John F.

“…The long‐term consequences of these improvements are non‐trivial; its impact working through adult height alone could result in a 2.9% increase in lifetime earnings.…”
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Do cash transfer programmes affect child anaemia? Results From a meta-analysis by Manley, James, Alderman, Harold

“…The impact of social protection on haemoglobin and anaemia is surprisingly understudied compared to height, on which a previous study found well over 100 impacts of cash transfer programmes. …”
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Effect of mound size and fertilizer on white guinea yam (Dioscorea rotundata) in southern Nigeria by Kang, B., Wilson, J.E.

“…The average tuber yield for the three locations without fertilizers was 7.83 tons/ha on the flat compared with 9.44 tons/ha on large mound (about 30 cm height). With fertilizer application, tuber yields were 7.43 tons/ha on the flat and 11.30 tons/ha on large mound respectively. …”
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Rehabilitation of tropical rainforests based on indigenous species for degraded areas in Sarawak, Malaysia by Azani, A.M., Majid, N.M., Meguro, S.

“…The planted seedlings were classified as light demanding, shade tolerant and late growth species on the basis of their height growth performance in the trials. The indigenous tree species recommended for checkerboard plantations are: Shorea ovata, S. mecistopteryx, S. macrophylla, Dryobalanops aromatica, Parashorea parvifolia, Hopea beccariana, Durio carinatus and Eusideroxylon zwageri.…”
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Aboveground biomass of Tectona grandis plantations in Costa Rica by Pérez Cordero, L.D., Kanninen, M.

“…This paper reports the distribution of total aboveground biomass of T. grandis and its relationship with diameter at breast height (dbh), age and stand density in plantations across Costa Rica. …”
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The role of elephants (Loxodonta Africana Blumenbach) in forest savanna vegetation in Rabongo forest, Uganda by Nampindo, S.

“…Seedlings, samplings and trees, were enumerated and diameter at reference height (DRH) measured for all trees of (DRH ³ 10 cm) from sub plots measuring 20 m x 20 m. …”
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The forests and related vegetation of Kwerba, on the Foja Foothills, Mamberamo, Papua (Indonesian New Guinea) by Heist, M. van, Sheil, Douglas, Rachman, I., Gusbager, P., Raweyai, C. O., Yoteni, H. S. M.

“…Tree densities (598 +/- 136/ha) are similar to lowland forests elsewhere, but mean stem sizes (22 +/- 1 cm dbh and 21 +/- 2 m height for trees over 10 cm dbh) appear small. Numbers of tree species per plot (22 +/- 4, of 40 stems recorded) are unremarkable, but levels of endemism are potentially high with many of the unidentified species being rare (seldom collected) or undescribed. …”
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