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Building Resilience to Enhance Food and Nutrition Security, Incomes and Health in Northern Uganda (BRENU). Training Module 2: Enhancing smallholder household dietary diversity thro... by Owori, Moses, Ecii, Juliet, Opus, David, Akullo, Jacqueline, Kato, Fred, Nabuuma, Deborah, Ekesa, Beatrice

“…This training manual is part of a nutrition-sensitive package of formal training, informal technical assistance and mentoring services. …”
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Accra: women and children getting by in urban Accra

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Nutrition-sensitive Water Management: Guidance for Irrigation Interventions by Chase, Claire

“…It is often necessary to enhance current approaches to service delivery and water management because these have mainly been designed with more upstream outcomes in mind, such as improvements in access and use for water and sanitation services and improvements in availability of food and income for irrigation investments. …”
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Declining purchasing power of minimum wages in Papua New Guinea: Analysis of economic access to healthy diets by Mahrt, Kristi, Schmidt, Emily, Hayoge, Glen

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Typologies spatiales intégrées pour identifier l'insécurité alimentaire et les goulots d'étranglement de la pauvreté: Cas du Burkina Faso by Marivoet, Wim, Maruyama, Eduardo, Sy, Abdourahmane

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Ethiopia Alive & Thrive Endline Survey 2014: Community by International Food Policy Research Institute

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Land Use Preference for Ecosystem Services and Well-Being in Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh by Ahammad, R., Stacey, N., Sunderland, T.C.H., Sangha, K.K.

“…People commonly valued the food, income and nutrition contributions of all land uses. …”
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Assessing and planning city region food system: Colombo (Sri Lanka) synthesis report by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Water Management Institute

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IFPRI's nutrition research in West Africa at a glance by Poverty, Health, & Nutrition Division

“…Our research aims to improve nutrition by understanding and addressing both the direct determinants of malnutrition (such as diets, caregiving and feeding practices, and health) and the underlying contributors (such as income, food security, education, gender equity, and access to health, hygiene, and sanitation services). …”
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A4NH flagship 4: Supporting policies, programs, and enabling action through research by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Research under this flagship, Supporting Policies, Programs and Enabling Action through Research, or SPEAR, explores why the disconnect persists, and more importantly, how we can turn agriculture into a powerful lever for raising people’s health and nutritional status, while at the same time contributing to addressing other development challenges, such as food security, poverty, equity, and sustainability.…”
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Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa by Headey, Derek D., Stifel, David, You, Liangzhi, Guo, Zhe

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Next-generation tools for nutrition-inclusive breeding for cereals by Choudhary, S., Anbazhagan, Krithika, Kholova, J., Murugesan, T., Kaliamoorthy, S., Chadalawada, K., Prasad, Kodukula V.S.V., Nankar, A.N., Mani, V., Chandra, M., Banoriya, R., Vadez, V.

“…Traditionally, grain nutritional and quality assessments have relied on wet-lab analytical services, which are slow, costly, and often inaccessible. …”
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Patterns and trends of child and maternal nutrition inequalities in Nigeria by Omilola, Babatunde

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Accelerating national policymaking across sectors to enhance nutrition by Mwadime, Robert

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Countries in the SUN movement assess their own progress within government-led multistakeholder platforms by Secretariat, Scaling Up Nutrition

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Learning from efforts to cost country plans: Priority technical issues to address by Connolly, Helen

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The true cost of food by Laborde Debucquet, David, Parent, Marie, Piñeiro, Valeria

“…We call on the G20 to lead action on this problem by (1) issuing a mandate to international organizations to develop a harmonized approach to measure the social cost of food, (2) coordinating international reform of current harmful policies, especially subsidies linked to the emission of greenhouse gasses or a nutritionally imbalanced food supply, that contribute to costs, and (3) setting an agenda to repurpose government resources previously used on harmful policies for reducing the costs remaining after reform of current policies through beneficial policies, such as agricultural R&D for sustainability, payment for ecosystem services, and food safety initiatives.…”
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Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than rural areas? evidence from 36 developing countries by Smith, Lisa C., Ruel, Marie T., Ndiaye, Aida

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Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than rural areas?: evidence from 36 developing countries by Smith, Lisa C., Ruel, Marie T., Ndiaye, Aida

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Sustainable intensifications of African agriculture through legume-based cropping and Brachiaria forage systems by Tesfai, M., Njarui, D.M.G., Ghimire, Sita R.

“…To reveal this potential, a comprehensive review of literatures and assessment was performed using key indicators in relation to food and nutrition quality, agro-ecological services and socioeconomic benefits. …”
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