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This chapter offers insights on how to move a nutrition-driven agriculture forward in the coming years. It highlights the importance of starting with clear nutrition goals, moving beyond staples, including the minimum package in any intervention, preparing for unintended consequences, capitalizing...
Author(s)
Fan ShengGen; Yosef, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
ISBN
2019 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786399311)
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This chapter introduces the conceptual links between agriculture and nutrition and reviews recent policy developments addressing agriculture and nutrition both directly and indirectly. The latest evidence base regarding the links between agriculture and nutrition is also reviewed. Initiatives to...
Author(s)
Fan ShengGen; Yosef, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
ISBN
2019 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786399311)
The 2020 conference, "Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security" held in May 2014 assessed emerging shocks that threaten food and nutrition security (including food price spikes, conflicts, and climate change), discussed approaches and tools for building resilience, and identified...
Author(s)
Fan, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R.; Yosef, S.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Resilience for food and nutrition security, 2014, pp xv + 211 pp.
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This chapter begins with a discussion of Ethiopia's various nutrition-related indicators, which show the persistence of child and adult malnutrition, despite some progress. It then discusses the major programmes and policies that have been launched during the past two decades within the nutrition...
ISBN
2019 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786399311)
This book (21 chapters) discusses the policies, programmes and investments in agricultural development that have reduced hunger and poverty across Africa, Asia and Latin America over the past half century. The 19 successes included are described in in-depth case studies that synthesize the evidence ...
Author(s)
Spielman, D. J.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Proven successes in agricultural development: a technical compendium to Millions Fed, 2010, pp 600 pp.
This book explores the links among agriculture, nutrition and health and identifies ways to strengthen related policies and programmes. It includes 23 chapters which were originally commissioned as background papers or policy briefs for the conference "Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition ...
Author(s)
Fan, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Reshaping agriculture for nutrition and health: an IFPRI 2020 book, 2012, pp xiv + 207 pp.
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This chapter makes the case for India to shift to a nutrition-focused agricultural sector that goes beyond staple grain productivity to emphasize the production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. The chapter first reviews the nutrition trends in India, characterized by slow progress in...
Author(s)
Prabhu Pingali; Abraham, M.
ISBN
2019 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786399311)
This book, inclusive of 19 chapters subdivided into four parts, highlights important policies, programmes and investments relevant to food and nutrition security that helped to substantially reduce hunger across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Specific chapters address community nutrition...
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Gillespie, S.; Hodge, J.; Yosef, S.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
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Nourishing millions: stories of change in nutrition, 2016, pp xiii + 200 pp.
This book offers a comprehensive picture of the policy issues the world must address if it is to overcome poverty, hunger, and environmental degradation, and points the way to the policy actions required to meet these goals. Issues addressed by the book's 41 chapters include: food security; dietary ...
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Pinstrup-Andersen, P.; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
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The unfinished agenda: perspectives on overcoming hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation, 2001, pp 301 pp.
This book examines who the poorest and hungry people are; the actions that are required to improve welfare; and the strategies, policies and interventions that have been successful so far in eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. The book consists of five chapters on the root causes of poverty and ...
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Braun, J. von; Pandya-Lorch, R.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, USA
Citation
Taking action for the world's poor and hungry people: synopsis of an international consultation, 2007, pp 30 pp.