FANTA – Improving Household Food Hygiene in a Development Context

April 20, 2015

Improving Household Food Hygiene in a Development Context, April 2015. Full text, pdf Authors: Monica Woldt, Gerald G. Moy, and Rebecca Egan. Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project (FANTA) This new technical brief focuses on recommendations and critical actions to reduce the risk of foodborne illness at the household level.

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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Breastfeeding Contribute to Child Stunting in Rural Malawi

April 20, 2015

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) and Breastfeeding Contribute to Child Stunting in Rural Malawi. The FASEB Journal, April 2015, vol. 29 no. 1 Supplement 579.6. Abstract Authors: J Ruel-Bergeron, P Christian, et al. Evidence linking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) to stunting has been mixed but constitutes a possibly important contributor to chronic undernutrition in […]

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Household sanitation and personal hygiene practices are associated with child stunting in rural India

April 20, 2015

Household sanitation and personal hygiene practices are associated with child stunting in rural India: a cross-sectional analysis of surveys. BMJ Open, Feb 2015. Full text Authors: Jee Hyun Rah, Aidan A Cronin, et al. Objectives- Increasing evidence suggests that water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices affect linear growth in early childhood. We determined the association between […]

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SHARE – Food Hygiene Intervention in Nepal, 2015. (Video)

March 25, 2015

Food Hygiene Intervention in Nepal, 2015. SHARE. Link to video This video documents all phases of the SHARE-funded food hygiene intervention trial that took place in Nepal from 2012 to 2014. The video was produced by Om Prasad Gautam, PhD Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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IFPRI – 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report

March 25, 2015

2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report, 2015. International Food Policy Research Institute. Full text IFPRI’s flagship report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions: What […]

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Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors

March 25, 2015

POLICY BRIEF – Complementary Food Hygiene: An overlooked opportunity in the WASH, nutrition and health sectors, 2015. Full text Authors: Om Prasad Gautam, Joanna Esteves Mills, Alexandra Chitty, Val Curtis. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Poor complementary food hygiene may account for a substantial proportion of diarrhoeal diseases among infants and young children in […]

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USAID/Egypt – Factors Associated with Growth in the First Year of Life in Egyptian Children: Implications for the Double Burden of Malnutrition

March 4, 2015

Factors Associated with Growth in the First Year of Life in Egyptian Children: Implications for the Double Burden of Malnutrition, 2015. Full text Authors: Justine Kavle, Valerie Flax, Ali Abdelmegeid, Farouk Salah, Seham Hafez, Magda Ramzy, Doaa Hamed, Gulsen Saleh, and Rae Galloway Energy and nutrient intakes were generally higher in Upper than Lower Egypt, whereas reported diarrhea prevalence […]

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Household Food Insufficiency and Child Nutritional Status in Urban Slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh

March 4, 2015

Household Food Insufficiency and Child Nutritional Status in Urban Slum, Dhaka. Acta Medica International, Jan – Jun 2015 Full text Authors: Sultan-Uz-Zaman, Nuhad Raisa Seoty, et al. Introduction: Malnourished children are about 20% in the developing world. Food insecurity is a key risk factor for child malnutrition. Food insufficiency, an extreme form of household food insecurity, can affect […]

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Large decrease in child stunting in Bangladesh despite limited improvement in children’s food intake

February 4, 2015

Large decrease in child stunting in Bangladesh despite limited improvement in children’s food intake, 2014. Full text Monica Jain. Associate Research Fellow, HarvestPlus, International Food Policy Research Institute. I do a descriptive decomposition analysis of the major factors associated with a large decrease in stunting over 10 years in Bangladesh. Using longitudinal data I focus on the role of […]

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Nutritional Status of Women and Children: A 2014 update on nutritional status by sociodemographic and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators collected in Demographic and Health Surveys

February 4, 2015

Nutritional Status of Women and Children: A 2014 update on nutritional status by sociodemographic and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) indicators collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. December 2014. Full text, pdf This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Monica T. Kothari (PATH), Noureddine […]

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