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Food prices and the wages of the poor: A cost effective addition to high frequency food security monitoring
The affordability of nutritious food for “all people, at all times” is a critically important dimension of food security.
The cost and cost effectiveness of an integrated wasting prevention and screening intervention package in Burkina Faso and Mali
Background
Little is known about costs and cost-effectiveness of interventions that integrate wasting prevention into screening for child wasting.
Food systems interventions for nutrition: Lessons from six program evaluations in Africa and South Asia
While there is growing global momentum behind food systems strategies to improve planetary and human health—including nutrition—there is limited evidence of what types of food systems interventions work.
Behavior change interventions to address unhealthy food consumption: A scoping review
High intakes of sodium, sugar, saturated fats, and trans fats contributed to 187.7 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) from non-communicable diseases globally.
Background The Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) is a rapid dietary assessment tool designed to enable feasible measuring and monitoring of diet quality at population level in the general public.
Basic human values drive food choice decision-making in different food environments of Kenya and Tanzania
Increased access to a variety of foods in low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) has led to greater autonomy in food choice decision-making.
Background: The practice of giving water before 6 mo of age is the biggest barrier to exclusive breastfeeding in West and Central Africa.
Concurrent undernutrition and overnutrition within indian families between 2006 and 2021
Background
Vietnamese food systems have experienced a transition process since the late 1980s Đổi mới reforms.
Temporal dietary diversity patterns are associated with linear growth but not ponderal growth in young children in rural Vietnam
Background: The first 2 y of life mark critical changes in children’s diet from milk-based food to diverse food rich in taste and texture, but few studies in low-resource settings have explored the changes in diet quality during this period.
Background: Bangladesh is urbanizing rapidly, facing challenges of malnutrition, low coverage and poor quality of urban nutrition services.
Comparing delivery channels to promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A cluster-randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh
Long-term association between maternal preconception hemoglobin concentration, anemia, and child health and development in Vietnam
Background
The long-term association between preconception maternal hemoglobin (Hb) concentrations and child health and development is unclear.
Understanding the types of food systems interventions that foster women's empowerment and the types of women that are able to benefit from different interventions is important for development policy.