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Understanding the dynamics of gender and nutrition in Bangladesh : Implications for policy and programming

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reliefweb.int –

During the past two decades, Bangladesh has made considerable progress in development, sustaining high rates of economic growth and reducing poverty rates by nine percent between 2000 and 2005. This report aims to contribute to reducing malnutrition in Bangladesh through a better understanding of gender-nutrition linkages. It is also part of a larger effort on multisectoral approaches to improving nutrition. The report takes as its starting point, the hypothesis that gender inequality in more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 17, 2012

Reducing the Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity among Vulnerable Populations

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Vulnerable populations are minimally resilient to shocks, whether caused by humans or natural disasters. Emerging threats and new trends—such as climate change, population growth, aging societies, urbanization, infectious as well as noncommunicable diseases, and environmental degradation—are bound to aggravate the consequences of shocks on already vulnerable populations by triggering damage, loss, and displacement. Such threats pose an additional hurdle to the stated policy objective of the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

Fighting Maternal and Child Malnutrition

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This report proposes a framework to understand how good nutrition governance can contribute to positive changes directly related to nutrition outcomes Existing works around nutrition have acknowledged the importance of governance organisations and institutions to improve the quality of nutritional outcomes (Pelletier 2002, 2011; Natalicchio 2002; REACH 2009; WHO 2009). This paper makes two contributions to existing approaches:It provides a qualitative account of how formal political more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 16, 2012

We Won’t Accept Hunger Ambassadors’ Toolkit

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actionaid.org –

This toolkit is for you. It is for anyone who has an interest in helping stop hunger. You can use as little or as much of it as you want to. It also has specially adapted chapters for We Won’t Accept Hunger champions, called ‘ambassadors’, to help them design campaign actions or train other people in campaigning techniques. Again, it is important to underline that you need use only the parts of this toolkit that you are comfortable with.Hunger is the world’s biggest killer but it can be more...

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D C on May 14, 2012

The Committee on World Food Security (CFS): A guide for civil society

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actionaid.org –

This is a guide for civil society organisations (CSOs) to the Committee on World Food Security – known as the CFS.It explains what the CFS is, why it is important, and how civil society organisations worldwide can monitor, influence or get involved in the work of the CFS at the global, regional and the national level.The guide is written in plain language for social movements, communitybased organisations (CBOs), civil society (CSOs), and local or international non-governmental organisations more...

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D C on May 09, 2012

Fighting hunger in the Sahel

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documents.wfp.org –

Drought has returned to the Sahel region of West Africa following an erratic and late 2011 rainy season, bringing hunger to millions in the region for the third time in the past decade. In an area of the world where most people live only on what they can grow, inconsistent rains, failed harvests and dying animals mean that hunger is a fact of life for many.In Niger, 6.1 million people are estimated to be severely or moderately food-insecure. Results from a recent national nutrition survey in more...

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D C on May 02, 2012

Asia at the Crossroads

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actionaid.org –

This report argues that Asian countries are at a crossroads in their agriculture strategies. Before them are two farming models: "conventional‟, industrial farming, promoted by the Green Revolution; and sustainable, or ecological, agriculture - involving methods of farming that are gaining increasing acceptance around the world as the most viable way to promote food security and address climate change.Countries in Asia have shown the world in recent years that massive reductions in poverty and more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth

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A skyrocketing demand for food means that agriculture has become the largest driver of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction. At TEDxTC Jonathan Foley shows why we desperately need to begin "terraculture" -- farming for the whole planet.Jonathan Foley studies complex environmental systems and their affects on society. His computer models have shown the deep impact agriculture is having on our planet.

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D C on April 26, 2012

WFP launches support for more than 800,000 people hit by food crisis in Senegal

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wfp.org –

An operation to provide food assistance to more than 800,000 people is being launched by the United Nations World Food Programme, with first distributions to be held on Saturday, 28 April, in the rural commune of Oukout in Ziguinchor region. Supporting the efforts of the Government to respond to the food crisis, WFP will provide assistance to 739,000 people in rural areas and 67,000 in urban areas. It will be delivered through various activities included targeted distributions of food and cash more...

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D C on May 03, 2012

2011 Global Food Policy Report

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The 2011 Global Food Policy Report is a new edition of the annual International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) publication that provides a comprehensive, research-based analysis of major food policy challenges at the global, regional, national, and local levels. It highlights important developments and events in food policy that occurred in 2011, discusses lessons learned, offers policy recommendations, presents IFRPI’s food policy tools and indicators, and takes a look forward into more...

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John Daly on April 26, 2012

Global Monitoring Report 2012: Food Prices, Nutrition, and the Millennium Development Goals

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reliefweb.int –

The developing world’s progress is seriously lagging on global targets related to food and nutrition, with rates of child and maternal mortality still unacceptably high, says the Global Monitoring Report (GMR) 2012, released today by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Recent spikes in international food prices have stalled progress across several of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the report says.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 22, 2012

Research principles for developing country food value chains

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Food value chains (FVCs) comprise all activities required to bring farm products to consumers, including agricultural production, processing, storage, marketing, distribution, and consumption. FVCs are changing rapidly in developing countries (DCs), because of population and income growth; urbanization; and the expansion, globally and domestically, of modern food retailing, distribution, and wholesaling fi rms.The increased output required to meet growing food demand can be sustained only with more...

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D C on April 26, 2012

Sahel region faces malnutrition crisis

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aljazeera.com –

At least one million children are at risk of dying of malnutrition in parts of Africa's Sahel region, which covers Mauritania, Mali, and Niger, according to the United Nations.Ertharin Cousin, the executive director for the UN World Food Programme, told Al Jazeera on Saturday 05 May 2012 that the worsening crisis in the West African region was a situation that the global community could no longer ignore.Speaking at the Mangaize refugee camp in Niger, Cousin said that many people fleeing more...

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John Daly on May 05, 2012

The impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional contexts

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This study examines the impact of cash transfers on nutrition in emergency and transitional settings. It was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).

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Moushumi Biswas on March 13, 2012

That rice you throw away

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Research shows that the Philippines, the world’s biggest rice importer for several years, wastes rice that is worth at least US$535,000 (23 million pesos) every day, or at least $223 million a year—enough to feed 4.3 million people. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), under the Department of Science and Technology, revealed these 2008 data, further noting that every Filipino wastes an average of 3 tablespoons (9 grams) of rice daily, which is equivalent to 3.3 kilograms per more...

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D C on May 01, 2012

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