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Tanzania’s Mwanzo Bora: Promoting “good starts” in community agriculture and nutrition
In Tanzania, 53 percent of pregnant women are anemic, and 35 percent of children under three are stunted - both evidence of severe malnutrition. Africare’s Mwanzo Bora project (the name means “good start” in Kiswahili) integrates agriculture and nutrition to address a host of malnutrition issues in women and children in rural Tanzania, focusing on the first 1,000 days of children’s lives.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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G8 Alliance: Corporate boogeyman or vehicle to smallholder empowerment?
Launched just over a year ago, the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a global partnership formed by G8 governments, the private sector and African leaders with the goal of lifting 50 million people out of poverty by 2022. The combination of donor commitments, private sector investments and policy reforms by African governments are setting conditions for public-private partnerships to spark agriculture transformation.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Lifestyle changes contributing to ill health in China
Pollution, poor diet and stress are causing health problems in world's most populous country despite health reforms and affordable healthcare
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- Asia Pacific
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- nutrition
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Tastes Like Chicken (But it’s Not): Taste bud re-education and other innovative solutions to malnutrition
Modern society has lost a vital connection to the earth. Few of us touch the soil, and we’ve even forgotten how wholesome nutrients taste. Our taste buds have been desensitized by excessive salt, sugar and additives, contributing to poor nutrition and health problems. But some innovators are tackling these issues, promoting a modern agricultural society and a return to traditional foods.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Global leaders sign comprehensive charter to tackle stunting in children
The fight against stunting - the world's most urgent nutritional challenge - got a big boost through a global agreement signed by world leaders in London on Saturday.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition