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to improve nutrition among children and pregnant women by 2020, with funding commitments of $23.1bn. The African Union (AU) has declared 2014 as the Year of Agriculture and Food Security; this, together with the joint annual reviews of CAADP (the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme), presents an important opportunity to
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Mar 1, 2016 · Abstract. A diverse group of agricultural interventions aim to improve the nutritional status of women and children. These interventions range from the cultivation of bio-fortified crop varieties to home gardening to livestock intensification.
- Kathryn J. Fiorella, Rona L. Chen, Erin M. Milner, Lia C.H. Fernald
- 2016
Sep 5, 2018 · There is no doubt the nutrition sensitive agriculture programmes improve a variety of nutrition outcomes in both mothers and children and are more effective when programmes incorporate health...
- Prakash Shetty
- prakash.s.shetty@gmail.com
- 2018
Aug 10, 2013 · Leveraging health, agriculture, or social safety net platforms for joint early child development and nutrition programming during the first 1000 days of life would help focus on the crucial period of peak vulnerability for both nutrition and development. Current work is exploring such approaches.
- Marie T Ruel, Harold Alderman
- 2013
Oct 15, 2017 · A two‐year cluster randomised control trial conducted in Burkina Faso reported that an integrated agriculture, nutrition and health behaviour change intervention significantly improved child health outcomes, including wasting, diarrhoea, mean haemoglobin and anaemia prevalence levels, especially among the youngest children (Olney, Pedehombga ...
- Ellen Muehlhoff, Ramani Wijesinha-Bettoni, Elizabeth Westaway, Theresa Jeremias, Stacia Nordin, Juli...
- 10.1111/mcn.12411
- 2017
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We assess the impact on child health, measured as height-for-age, of an Agricultural intervention that improved food security among smallholder farmers by providing these with a basket of new technology options.
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Apr 9, 2015 · Agricultural activities can also generate economy-wide effects such as increasing government revenues to fund health, infrastructure and nutrition intervention programmes. Agricultural intensification has been essential to feed the world’s growing population, but it has also brought its own risks for people’s health, including zoonotic ...
