First food: business of taste
Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it
Nutrition
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UNICEF-WHO low birthweight estimates: levels and trends 2000-2015
The UNICEF-WHO low birthweight estimates report presents new global, regional and national estimates of low birthweight, showing that 1 in 7 babies worldwide – more than 20 million babies – are born with
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Food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in Ethiopia
This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the
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Somalia: Health and Nutrition Programme Launches in Two Regions of Somalia
The Somali Health and Nutrition (SHINE) programme comes at a critical point in Somalia's history with the aim of improving the health and nutrition status of Somalis, with a particular focus on women and
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Global report on food crises 2019
<p><img alt="" src="https://cdn.downtoearth.org.in/dte/userfiles/images/09_20131031.jpg" style="width: 333px; height: 235px; margin: 14px; float: left;" />Around 113 million people in 53 countries experienced
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Integrated Food Security Phase Classification: Technical manual version 3.0
<p>The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is a common global scale for classifying the severity and magnitude of food insecurity and malnutrition.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/food-security-nutrition.pdf"
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Nigeria: 'Crises in Rural Areas Threaten Progress in Hunger, Poverty Reduction'
The 2019 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) released yesterday by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), has raised concerns about threats to progress recorded in improved food and nutrition
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Gambia Micro-Nutrients Survey Report Launched
National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) in Collaboration with UNICEF on Monday 25th March 2019 launched the Gambia 2018 Survey Report on Macronutrients and Dissemination. According to the Survey Report, the
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Kenya: Artificial Intelligence is the Answer to Kenya's Food Insecurity
Agriculture is key to Kenya's economy, contributing 26 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and another 27 per cent of GDP indirectly through linkages with other sectors. The sector employs more
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Food = Nutrition, nature and livelihoods
We need a model of agricultural growth that will value local good food production and not have to first "chemicalise" and then learn better Poorer countries have health problems because of lack of
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Poorest of poor and uneducated women left behind in ICDS
Anganwadi services have a poor reach among key beneficiaries – the poorest of the poor and uneducated mothers – according to a paper published in a WHO bulletin recently. The government’s Integrated