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This chapter explores how evidence-informed decision making related to nutrition can be enhanced in Africa.
Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes
The revised CAADP Results Framework has 40 indicators for tracking progress across three levels.
Supporting multisectoral action: Capacity and nutrition leadership challenges facing Africa
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The food and agriculture sector is pivotal not only to addressing undernutrition but also to containing and preventing the spread of diet-related noncommunicable disease.
Evaluating nutrition-sensitive programs: challenges, methods, and opportunities
The current global evidence base regarding the nutritional impacts of nutrition-sensitive programs, including popular ones such as social safety nets and agriculture development programs, is generally limited due to poor targeting, design, and imp
Introduction [in Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: The road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition]
Focusing the 2015 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) on nutrition will contribute to a broader understanding of the role and importance of nutrition in achieving international, continental, and national economic growth targets through agricul
Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: The road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition
Focusing the 2015 ATOR on nutrition will contribute to a broader understanding of the critical role of nutrition in achieving international, continental, and national economic growth targets
Economic development and nutrition transition in Ghana: Taking stock of food consumption patterns and trends
Along with high economic growth over a period of somewhat more than the past three decades, poverty, household food insecurity, and undernutrition have substantially declined in Ghana.
Lessons learned from the evaluation of Helen Keller International’s enhanced homestead food production program
This chapter summarizes the primary results from the impact evaluation and two rounds of process evaluation described above that have been previously published in journal articles (van den Bold et al. 2015; Olney et al.
The role of mycotoxin contamination in nutrition: The aflatoxin story
Over the past decade, there has been increasing recognition that the quantity of food alone guarantees neither food security nor adequate nutrition as measured by metrics such as hunger, malnutrition, and stunting.