There is consensus that policy coherence is necessary for implementing effective and sustainable approaches to tackle malnutrition.

Background: In response to the high levels of maternal nutrition in Uttar Pradesh, Alive & Thrive (A&T) aimed to strengthen the delivery of nutrition interventions through the government antenatal care platform, including leveraging ongoin

Background: Maternal nutrition interventions are inadequately integrated into antenatal care (ANC).

The CGIAR crop improvement (CI) programs, unlike commercial CI programs, which are mainly geared to profit though meeting farmers’ needs, are charged with meeting multiple objectives with target populations that include both farmers and the commun

In sub-Saharan Africa, accessibility to affordable quality care is often poor and health expenditures are mostly paid out of pocket.

In rural Ethiopia, devolving public resource allocation to local governments improved delivery on central government priorities but not on citizens’ priorities.

Chapter 9 on Senegal pays particular attention to international migration and whether young migrants are contributing to rural transformation in their home country.

Chapter 3 reviews national policies in 13 African countries, and uses a novel approach to classify policies according to the employment constraints they address.

Chapter 4 examines whether African youth are more politically engaged than their older counterparts, and to what extent their demands for political action are motivated by concerns about jobs and unemployment.

Interaction within mothers’ social networks can theoretically diffuse messages from interventions and campaigns into norms and practices for infant and young child feeding (IYCF).

This chapter examines past patterns of public spending on agriculture in Ghana, and asks whether Ghana has invested enough resources in agriculture and how the patterns of investment in the sector have impacted agricultural productivity growth.

Why have African economies developed in this way and why has industrialization been so difficult to achieve?

This chapter has shown that Ghana’s reputation for upholding political rights and civil liberties since the country’s democratic transition in 1992 is well deserved.

Using Ghana as a case study, this book explores the challenges and opportunities of Africa’s transformation through an integrated economic and political analysis.

In low- and middle-income countries, non-communicable disease (NCD) prevalence is increasing while undernutrition persists, resulting in a double-burden of malnutrition.

Malnutrition in all its forms has risen on global and national agendas in recent years because of the recognition of its magnitude and its consequences for a wide range of human, social, and economic outcomes.