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Nutrition promotion messages: The effect of information on consumer sensory expectations, experiences and emotions of vitamin A-biofortified sweet potato by Lagerkvist, Carl Johan, Okello, J.J., Muoki, Penina Ngusye, Heck, S., Prain, Gordon

“…Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a major public health problem in many developing countries globally. It is estimated that 250 million children under the age of five years suffer from clinical VAD. …”
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Reaching Agents of Change Project: Successes, lessons and recommendations. Ex-post evaluation report by International Potato Center

“…Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is a critical and a widespread public health problem. CIP proved the concept that consumption and scaling up of biofortified orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) is an effective strategy for reducing VAD in children Analysis of the evaluation data shows that CIP, along with its partners, has succeeded in proving that modest amounts of OFSP consumed by children could reduce the prevalence of VAD and that farmers, but largely women, would maintain sweetpotato vines for planting and grow OFSP for consumption and local markets. …”
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Dietary quality and nutrition in Myanmar: Past progress, current and future challenges by Mahrt, Kristi, Headey, Derek D., Ecker, Olivier, Comstock, Andrew R., Tauseef, Salauddin

“…Then, in a nationally representative phone survey conducted quarterly in 2022 over a period of rapid food inflation, we find further deterioration in diet quality among adults, but no deterioration among children 6-23 months of age, suggesting parents may be trying to insulate their children from the worst effects of the crisis. …”
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Economic costs related to foodborne disease in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia in 2017 by Wagenberg, C.P.A. van, Havelaar, A.H.

“…Introduction: Foodborne diseases (FBD) are a significant problem in low- and middle-income countries, especially in Africa. …”
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Economic analysis of Imazapyrresistant maize technology for small farm households in western Kenya by Mignouna, Djana B., Manyong, Victor M., Mutabazi, K.D., Senkondo, E., Madulu, R.B., Labintan, C.A., Akinola, Adebayo A.

“…Some Striga species also attack tropical legumes hence further augmenting protein malnutrition of vulnerable younger children. Imazapyrresistant maize (IRM) technology is being promoted as a response to the increasing Striga problem. …”
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Biofortified Crops for Improved Human Nutrition : a Challenge Program Proposal Presented by CIAT and IFPRI by International Center for Tropical Agriculture, International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The Biofortification Challenge Program seeks to bring the full potential of agricultural and nutrition science to bear on the persistent problem of micronutrient malnutrition. Micronutrient malnutrition, primarily the result of diets poor in bioavailable vitamins and minerals, affects more than half of the world’s population, especiallywomen and preschool children. …”
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Är takgården lämplig som skolgård för barn? : en empirisk studie av tre förskolegårdar på tak i Malmö by Larsson, Ann-Sofie, Vamborg, Isabella

Rabies : en utmaning för Indien by Kristina, Dalin

“…WHO and the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) have set guidelines on how to reduce the problem through vaccination and sterilization of dogs. …”

Mortality, mobility, and schooling outcomes among orphans: Evidence from Malawi by Ueyama, Mika

“…A tremendous increase in the number of orphans associated with a sharp rise in prime-age adult mortality due to AIDS has become a serious problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, more than 30 percent of school-aged children have lost at least one parent in Malawi. …”
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Att växa i lekmiljöer by Gråhed, Jenny

“…The preschool constitutes a big part of many children's everyday existence. Its contents are therefore of great importance and the environment deserves a well thoughtout design. …”
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Advocacy to Reduce Malnutrition in Uganda: Some Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa by Namugumya, Brenda Shenute

“…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). …”
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Improving nutrition as a development priority: Addressing undernutrition in national policy processes in Sub-Saharan Africa by Benson, Todd

“…Given that undernutrition is a solvable problem that, in part, requires public action, governments can and should be held accountable for the persistent presence of undernourished women and children in the population, the unnecessary suffering that they experience, and the limited potential that they have to live long, healthy, productive, and creative lives.…”
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Alternatives to consumer-oriented food subsidies for achieving nutritional objectives by Kennedy, Eileen T.

“…Malnutrition is a problem associated with poverty. Although all poor people are at risk of having an inadequate food intake, it is usually the maternal and preschooler population that are the most nutritionally vulnerable. …”
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Södermalmsskolan by Dahl, Elin

“…We must not only teach the children about ecology, as the support for the current school intend to, but also give the children a school garden that counteract the problems schools are facing today. …”
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Kostvanor hos överviktiga och feta ungdomar i Uppsala by Wernersson, Anna

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Can dairy help solve the malnutrition crisis in developing countries? An economic analysis by Headey, Derek D.

“…The intake problem stems from low-quality diets and poor feeding practices, while absorption and utilization problems arise from repeated as well as chronic infections, particularly of the gut. …”
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Evaluation of animal welfare education in primary schools in Lilongwe, Malawi by Gyllenhammar, Anna

“…Animal welfare issues are not considered as high priority in Malawi, a developing country in south east Africa, due to problems affecting the human population. In Lilongwe, the capital city, education programs are used to increase the awareness of animal welfare issues among primary school children. …”
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Anemia in Indian men predicts fewer work hours and lower earnings: Evidence from nationally representative health and labor surveys by Scott, Samuel P., Pant, Anjali, Nguyen, Phuong Hong, Alderman, Harold, Yadav, Kapil, Menon, Purnima

“…Anemia is globally recognized as an important public health problem in women and children, thus the consequences of anemia have predominantly been described in these two groups. …”
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New nutrition policies for China by Chen, Kevin Z., Wang, Zimeiyi

“…However, China still has high levels of undernutrition, with poor regions and vulnerable groups such as children, women, older people and migrants disproportionally affected. …”
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A global hunger index: measurement concept, ranking of countries, and trends by Wiesmann, Doris

“…The GHI captures three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child mortality, which is to a large extent attributable to undernutrition.…”
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