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The costs of a multisectoral nutrition program implemented through a poultry value chain platform in Burkina Faso by Margolies, Amy, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Twalibu, Aisha, Nwabuikwu, Odiche, Wun, Jolene, Kemp, Chris, Gelli, Aulo, Levin, Carol

“…Undernutrition in women and young children in Burkina Faso is a critical problem. …”
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D4N2024 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5b: Addressing nutrition challenges in vulnerable populations by Thapaliya, Pragya, Sheuly, Afsana Habib, Gadhavi, Alfa, El-Kour, Tatyana, Akter, Fahmida, Das, Pinaki, Dirghayu, K. C., Shirisha, P., Rinky, Farhana, Kumar, Raj, Yasin, Rahima

“…D4N2024 Presentation Showcase – Thematic Session 5b: Addressing nutrition challenges in vulnerable populations Oral presentations Enhancing Nutrition Through Home-Grown School Meal Programs: Policy, Governance, and Capacity Building in Rural Nepal Pragya Thapaliya, Programme Manager, Mercy Corps Empowering Adolescent Girls through Food Security and Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Bangladesh Afsana Habib Sheuly, Head of Nutrition and Health, Helen Keller International Diversifying food plates of tribal farmer households of Dangs by changing behaviour patterns around millets Alfa Gadhavi, Deputy Manager (Health & Nutrition), Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Double burden of malnutrition and its determinants among adolescent girls and boys (10-19 years): Evidence from a nationwide longitudinal survey in Bangladesh Fahmida Akter, Assistant Scientist, BRAC University Hidden Hunger: A Longitudinal Study of Nutritional Insecurity among Non-Poor Tribal and Non-Tribal Households in West Bengal, India Pinaki Das, Professor, Vidyasagar University Rapid-fire presentations Prevalence and determinants of the Double Burden of Malnutrition among Adolescents in Nepal: Results from an urban sample Dirghayu K.C., Research Coordinator, Public Health Promotion and Development Organization The importance of revisiting regional inequalities in the nutrition status of women and children: an empirical study from India P Shirisha, Project Research Scientist-II, ICMR-National Institute of Epidemiology Factors associated with different form of malnutrition and their co-existence among 6-59 Months old children in Bangladesh: Findings from a Nationwide Cross-Sectional Survey Farhana Rinky, Research Assistant, Center for NCD and Nutrition, BRAC JPG School of Public Health, BRAC University and Institute of Food Science and Technology Impact Evaluation of Community Clinic Intervention on Maternal Healthcare Utilization in the Slums of Delhi Raj Kumar, Research Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University Nutritional Antenatal Care Strategies Rahima Yasin, Research Coordinator, Institute of Global Health and Development, the Aga Khan University Hospital…”
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Measuring the impact of COVID-19 on climate smart agriculture strategies of smallholder farmers in coastal Bangladesh by Amjath Babu, Tharayil Shereef, Mamun-ur-Rashid, Sumona Shahrin, Krupnik, Timothy J.

“…Methods: The study develops a composite indicator of the changes in CSA strategies and links them to indicators of human, physical, financial, social, natural, and information capital through quantitative regression models. …”
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Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) for accelerating varietal turnover for sorghum, groundnut and common bean in Tanzania: The case of Mbamba MTE Company Ltd by Radegunda, Kessy, Ochieng, Justus, Mwakatwila, Atupokile, Edith Kadege, Papias Binagwa, Mwenda, Emmanuel, Joachim Madeni, Reinfrid Maganga, Chima Rickards, Victor Lesedy, Rubyogo, Jean Claude, Eliud Kongola

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Food safety policy in 9 African countries by Grace, Delia, Kang'ethe, Erastus K., Bonfoh, Bassirou, Roesel, Kristina, Makita, K.

“…Introduction Millions of smallholder farmers, many of them women, supply the rapidly growing markets for livestock and fish products in Africa and Asia. …”
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Rift Valley fever virus seroprevalence among ruminants and humans in northeast Kenya by Lindahl, Johanna F., Njeru, I., Karanja, J., Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K.

“…Overall seroprevalence was 21.9%, and univarible analyses could find no difference between the three areas, but men were found to be significantly more seropositive than women (26.2 and 18.8% respectively, p=0.004). Ruminants (sheep, goats, and cattle) were also sampled within the irrigation. …”
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Access to lowland areas for vine conservation: a key determinant of increased utilization of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Niassa province, Mozambique by Rakotoarisoa, B.E., Francisco, E.A., Jaisse, M., Naico, A., Makunde, G.S., Andrade, M.I., Muzhingi, T.

“…The study was implemented in 8 districts in Niassa province in early December 2015, among 271 households (HH), where 77% of these households had children under 5 years and 34% of the respondents were women. …”
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Minnen av en trädgård by Lilja, Britt

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Evaluating energy efficiency and emissions of charred biomass used as a fuel for household cooking in rural Kenya by Nemer, Achour

“…Indoor pollution has serious health effects and especially women and children are affected by this since they spend more time in the kitchens compared to men. …”

Carnes y proteínas vegetales: hábitos de consumo y percepción de la población argentina. by Soteras, Trinidad, Denoya, Gabriela Inés, Vaudagna, Sergio Ramon, Szerman, Natalia, Galmarini, Mara Virginia

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Assessment of water sources and quality for livestock and farmers in the Rift Valley area of Ethiopia: Implications for health and food safety by Amenu, K.

“…The study was carried out in Lume and Siraro districts, both located in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia. …”
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Svårklassryttares förberedelser för dressyrträning : för bäst lärande by Oscander, Anna

“…SUMMARY There was no previous study in what high level dressage riders had for ideas of how to best prepare for their training sessions with an instructor. …”

Effects of an integrated poultry value chain, nutrition, gender and WASH intervention (SELEVER) on hygiene and child morbidity and anthropometry in Burkina Faso: A secondary outcom... by Gelli, Aulo, Collishaw, Anissa, Awonon, Josue, Becquey, Elodie, Diatta, Elodie, Diop, Loty, Ganaba, Rasmané, Headey, Derek D., Hien, Alain, Ngure, Francis, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Santacroce, Marco, Toe, Laeticia Celine, Verhoef, Hans, Alderman, Harold, Ruel, Marie T.

“…Communes were randomly assigned using restricted randomisation to one of three groups: (1) SELEVER intervention (n = 446 households); (2) SELEVER plus WASH intervention (n = 432 households); and (3) control without intervention (n = 899 households). The study population included women aged 15−49 years with an index child aged 2−4 years. …”
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Determinants of dietary diversity and drivers of food choice among low-income consumers in urban Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe by Gichohi-Wainaina, Wanjiku N., Kee-Tui, Sabine Homann, Zoethout, Manon, Talsma, Elise F., Edel, Immaculate, Hauser, Michael

“…Additionally, in Nairobi, there were gender differences in diet diversity, with men having a higher dietary diversity score than women (4.6% vs. 4.3%; p = 0.004). The majority of respondents in Lilongwe (65%) reported price as the most important driver of food choice, compared to 38% in Nairobi and 42% in Bulawayo.Our observation of poor‐quality diets provides further evidence of the need for food policies that are cognisant of the nutrition and health of the growing population of the urban poor. …”
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A prepandemic nutrition-sensitive social protection program has sustained benefits for food security and diet diversity in Myanmar during a severe economic crisis by Maffioli, Elisa M., Headey, Derek D., Lambrecht, Isabel B., Oo, Than Zaw, Zaw, Nicholus Tint

“…Methods: In a previous cluster-randomized controlled trial conducted over 2016–2019, pregnant women and their children aged <2 y were randomly assigned to either: 1) CASH; 2) CASH + social and behavioral change communication (SBCC); or 3) a control group. …”
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The effect of electronic job aid assisted one-to-one counselling to support exclusive breastfeeding among 0–5-month-old infants in rural Bangladesh by Billah, Sk Masum, Ferdous, Tarana E., Siddique, Abu Bakkar, Raynes-Greenow, Camille, Kelly, Patrick, Gillespie, Stuart, Hoddinott, John F., Menon, Purnima

“…We randomized pregnant women to one of five study arms in the trial and followed mother–child dyads until 2 years of age. …”
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Rethinking agrifood systems for the post-COVID world by Fan, Shenggen, Chen, Kevin Z., Si, Wei, Swinnen, Johan

“…The livelihoods of vulnerable groups such as smallholder farmers, women, and migrant workers are threatened as they face losing jobs and incomes (FAO 2021b). …”
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Cost-effectiveness of community-based gendered advisory services to farmers: Analysis in Mozambique and Tanzania by Mogues, Tewodaj, Mueller, Valerie, Kondylis, Florence

“…However, for any given modality, it is more cost-effective to improve outcomes for men than for women—a finding that also pertains to the Tanzania land advisory services program. …”
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A large-scale nutrition- and gender-sensitive poultry market-based program did not improve maternal and child diets in rural Burkina Faso: A cluster-randomized controlled trial by Becquey, Elodie, Diop, Loty, Diatta, Ampa Dogui, Pedehombga, Abdoulaye, Awonon, Josue, Ganaba, Rasmane, Gelli, Aulo

“…Objective We assessed the effectiveness on maternal and child dietary outcomes of SELEVER, a livestock intervention designed to improve diets in rural Burkina Faso through training and market facilitation to improve poultry production; women’s empowerment activities; and nutrition and hygiene behavior change communication. …”
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Opportunities to promote cattle breeding in Northwest Highlands Vietnam: A business model approach by Bravo, Aura, Orduz, Daniela, Huyen, Thi Thanh, Nguyen, Thinh, Pazos, Mateo, Triana Ángel, Natalia, Marshall, Karen, Burkart, Stefan

“…Household decision-making on accessing the service is largely controlled by men, and women show distrust in the technology due to perceived risks, such as the potential loss of a cows’ reproductive capacity. …”
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