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Policies and Programmes for Improving Nutrition

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This chapter discusses policies and programmes and provides a number of specific examples for improving food and nutrition security at the international, regional and country level. This chapter also reviews policy options for responding to threats to nutrition from climate change and growing demand for biofuel.

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  1. 1.

    The discussion of regional initiatives in Africa is drawn from the draft report of the Africa regional meeting held at the 35th Annual Session of the Standing Committee on Nutrition of the U.N. System, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 3–6, 2008; see SCN (2008).

  2. 2.

    For more detail, see www.worldbank.org/safetynets

  3. 3.

    Unless otherwise noted, the discussion of cash transfers which follows is drawn from Cohen et al. (2008).

  4. 4.

     See http://www.unicef.org/nutrition/index_24806.html

  5. 5.

     See http://www.harvestplus.org for more information.

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Thompson, B., Cohen, M.J., Tirado, M.C. (2012). Policies and Programmes for Improving Nutrition. In: Thompson, B., Cohen, M. (eds) The Impact of Climate Change and Bioenergy on Nutrition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0110-6_6

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