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Goal-setting and volitional behavioural change: Results from a school meals intervention with vitamin-A biofortified sweetpotato in Nigeria by Lagerkvist, Carl Johan, Okello, J.J., Adekambi, S., Kwikiriza, N., Abidin, P.E., Carey, E.E.

“…Malnutrition, particularly vitamin A deficiency, is a major public health problem in many developing countries. This study investigated whether priming or self-generation of goals, or whether attention to instrumental or experiential goals together with use of a reminder condition or not, promotes dietary behaviour intentions and change. …”
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Factor analysis to investigate genotype and genotype X environment interaction effects on pro-vitamin A content and yield in maize synthetics by Mengesha Abera, W., Menkir, A., Meseka, S., Bossey, B., Afolabi, A., Burgueno, J., Crossa, J.

“…Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa affecting 33 million preschool-age children. …”
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Food safety: The biggest development challenge you’ve never heard of by Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

“…Feed The Future’s EatSafe: Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe), highlights how the problem is immense, tractable, and has been neglected for decades by governments and international donors. …”
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The extent of women's empowerment across rural-urban areas and wealth categories and its role in nutrition outcomes of family members in Uttar Pradesh, India by Palani Samy, Venkatesh, Vellaichamy, Sangeetha, Girish Kumar, Jha, Sharma, Nitin, Babu, Suresh Chandra

“…Finally, we found that the prevalence of malnutrition is negatively associated with women's empowerment, especially children and women. These findings highlight the need for promoting women's empowerment-based policies and interventions to address the malnutrition problem…”
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Transfers, behavior change communication, and intimate partner violence: Post-program evidence from rural Bangladesh by Roy, Shalini, Hidrobo, Melissa, Hoddinott, John F., Ahmed, Akhter

“…Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major global public health problem with economic costs ranging from 1-4 percent of GDP (García-Moreno et al. 2015; Ribero and Sánchez 2005). …”
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Estimating the impact of vitamin A-fortified vegetable oil in Bangladesh in the absence of dietary assessment data by Fiedler, John L., Lividini, Keith, Bermudez, Odilia I.

“…Vitamin A deficiency is a serious health problem in Bangladesh. The 2011–12 Bangladesh Micronutrient Survey found 76·8 % of children of pre-school age were vitamin A deficient. …”
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Agricultural knowledge management: Case of dairy production improvement Bure Woreda, West Gojjam Zone, Amhara Region by Assefa, H.

“…They also transferred their knowledge to their neighbors, friends, relative and children. Dairy production in the district is not market oriented, rather it use for household consumption and obtaining ox for draught power. …”
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The epidemiology of animal bite injuries in Uganda and projections of the burden of rabies by Fèvre, Eric M., Kaboyo, R.W., Persson, V., Edelsten, M., Coleman, P.G., Cleaveland, S.

“…Objectives  Rabies is a global problem, although it is often under‐reported in developing countries. …”
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Impact of conservation farming practices on Aspergillus population density, peanut aflatoxin level, and exposure risk in Zambia by Akello, J., Alamu, E.O., Mwila, C.M., Kachapulula, P.W., Mukanga, M., Njapau, H., Chikoye, D., Ortega-Beltran, A., Bandyopadhyay, R.

“…Aflatoxin contamination in peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) by aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus spp. is a serious problem worldwide affecting human health and restricting trade. …”
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Barns rörelsefrihet i en stad - en fallstudie av skolvägar till Monbijouskolan i centrala Malmö by Berggren, Amanda

Measuring child labor: Comparisons between hours data and subjective measures by Dillon, Andrew

“…Second, the subjective child labor module scales responses to elicit the relative distribution of the shares of children’s time without relying on hours data which are prone to severe outlier problems. …”
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Barns möjlighet till medverkan i BKA-processen : exemplifierat genom Sylteskolan i Trollhättan by Arnås, Linn, Elg, Klara

Landskapets lekvärden : Harald Aronssons park då, nu och i framtiden by Jonsén-Skanebo, Lisa

How qualitative studies and gender analysis can add value to the assessment of dietary exposure to aflatoxins in Kenya by Kiama, T.N., Sirma, A.J., Senerwa, D.M., Ochungo, P., Waithanji, Elizabeth M., Lindahl, Johanna F., Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Grace, Delia

“…Mycotoxicosis constitutes a classic ‘one health’ problem that affects the health of humans and livestock. …”
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Ghana: Processes and outputs associated with the UN Food Systems Summit by Asante, Felix A.

“…General nutrition situation and identification of the highest priority nutrition problems. Various estimates of nutritional status of Ghanaian children under aged 5 years show that 19% were stunted, 5% were wasted, and 11% were underweight. …”
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Identification of potential areas in México for intervention with biofortified high-zinc maize by Ramírez Jaspeado, Rocío, Palacios Rojas, Natalia, Funes, José, Pérez, Salomón, Donnet, M. Laura

“…Malnutrition is a problem that affects human growth, development and general health, particularly on children under 5 years of age and pregnant women. …”
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Rural Bangladeshi consumers’ (un)willingness to pay for low-milled rice: Implications for zinc biofortification by Herrington, Caitlin L., Maredia, Mywish K., Ortega, David L., Taleon, Victor, Birol, Ekin, Sarkar, Md Abdur Rouf, Rahaman, Md Shajedur

“…Zinc deficiency is a severe public health problem in Bangladesh. We examine the effects of nutritional information on rural consumers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for two ways to increase zinc intake through rice, the main staple crop–low-milling that gives rice grains a distinctive light brown color (a visible trait) and sets it apart from the culturally preferred high-milled white rice grain and biofortification of rice with increased zinc content (an invisible trait), which is also low-milled to retain maximum zinc content. …”
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Leveraging an implementation–research partnership to improve effectiveness of nutrition-sensitive programs at the World Food Programme by Olney, Deanna K., Marshall, Quinn, Honton, Geraldine, Ogden, Kathryn, Hambayi, Mutinta, Piccini, Sarah, Go, Ara, Gelli, Aulo, Bliznashka, Lilia

“…The guidance focuses on improving nutrition outcomes for nutritionally vulnerable groups across the life cycle: women and children in the first 1000 days, preschoolers, schoolchildren, and adolescents.Through iterative consultations, we created WFP’s nutrition-sensitive guidance that includes harmonized theories of change across WFP’s programs; 7 opportunities to enhance the programs’ nutrition-sensitivity; and mapping of these opportunities to WFP programs and key evidence gaps. …”
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Investigating carotenoid loss after drying and storage of orange-fleshed sweet potato by Bechoff, A.

“…Biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) is being promoted to tackle vitamin A deficiency, a serious public health problem affecting children and pregnant/lactating women in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Animals, poor people and food insecurity: Opportunities for improved livelihoods through efficient natural resource management by Devendra, C., Chantalakhana, C.

“…Poverty is a rural dilemma and continues to be a persistent multidimensional problem. It is associated with poor farmers, small farm systems, the landless, resource endowments, the socioeconomic environment and externalities. …”
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