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Measuring impact: what makes it harder for nutrition?

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 13 August 2014 - Categories: Nutrition
A young Tanzanian girl in Kunke village is checked for signs of malnutrition. Picture: Brian Sokol/IDRC/Panos

Earlier this summer, I was asked to speak at the Institute of Development Studies' Nutrition Summer School. It was a wonderfully sunny day and a chance for me to reflect on the challenges for all of us to ensure that …

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Nutrition for Growth: one year on, where have we got to?

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 6 June 2014 - Categories: Health, Nutrition
Mr Maybin Mwinga, a 72-year-old farmer living in the village of Waterfalls, Lusaka in Zambia playing his part in improving the nutrition of his community by growing micronutrient rich crops like orange maize - developed by UK aid partner HarvestPlus in collaboration with CIMMYT. Picture: HarvestPlus

It's a year since the Nutrition for Growth Summit was held in London. For those of us closely involved in the run up and delivery of the summit it is great to see that there is still some momentum and …

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Nutrition in the DRC: peanuts and development

Posted by: Chris Pycroft, Head of Office, DFID DRC, Posted on: 13 January 2014 - Categories: Democratic Republic of Congo, Nutrition

Nsimba is a 3 year old girl living in Masi Manimba, in the Bandundu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). With no real livelihood or consistent source of income, her parents struggle to feed her and her 5 …

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Nutrition in 2013 – a round up

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 10 January 2014 - Categories: Nutrition

It’s been quite a year for nutrition in DFID, and the world. As I was reflecting on the year a number of events struck me as the ones that I would remember. The G8 Nutrition for Growth meeting in June …

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Commitment to win the battle against undernutrition

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 11 June 2013 - Categories: Nutrition

We now know that undernutrition is the cause of nearly half of all child deaths – and we know what we can do about it. Last week there was a series of high level nutrition events in London. I’m part …

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Listen to grassroots wisdom to tackle hunger

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 19 April 2013 - Categories: Nutrition

Mitch Addison Lay has come all the way across the ocean to Dublin to tell us about the Caribbean Union of Fisherfolk Associations and their worries about diminishing fish stocks close to the shores of many of their islands. He was …

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Niger's escalating food crisis

Posted by: Sian To, Posted on: 6 August 2012 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Nutrition

Recently I travelled to Niger in West Africa with World Vision. It's my first time in Africa and I certainly didn't expect it to be SO hot and barren. Niger is an amazing country and I have met some simply amazing …

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Make children the real winners of London 2012

Posted by: David Beckham, Posted on: 26 July 2012 - Categories: Development Debates, Nutrition

...to help change this. To welcome his leadership and urge him to continue to help reduce the number of children suffering. I called on him to put child hunger and...

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Bringing hope for children in West Africa

Posted by: Anita Tiessen, Posted on: 11 June 2012 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Health, Nutrition

Since December last year, UNICEF has been warning of a looming food crisis in the Sahel region of West Africa, where more than one million very young children will suffer from life-threatening malnutrition this year. I've just returned from a visit …

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Soccer Aid, UNICEF and UK aid: the power to save children's lives

Posted by: Keeley Hawes, Posted on: 22 May 2012 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Nutrition

ITV1's Soccer Aid match will be shown live from 6pm on Sunday May 27th. For more information on UNICEF and tickets to Soccer Aid go to www.itv.com/socceraid. All donations to Soccer Aid will be matched pound for pound by the British …

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