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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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Food crops deliver more nutritional benefit

Posted by: Anne Philpott, Nutrition and Health Advisor, Posted on: 7 February 2014 - Categories: Nutrition

Last month I highlighted in my blog how I had learnt from colleagues about the huge waste of food caused by ‘post-harvest’ losses. Up to 30% of food, even in countries with high rates of undernutrition can be lost between …

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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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Waging war on hunger in Pakistan

Posted by: Fayaz Ahmad, Country Director for Islamic Relief Pakistan, Posted on: 23 July 2013 - Categories: Pakistan

This Ramadan Britain’s biggest Muslim charity has issued a declaration of war, and Pakistan is one of our key battlegrounds. Islamic Relief's cause is a war not on man, but on hunger. Our War on Hunger fundraising drive is a logical …

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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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Feeding potential

Posted by: Frank Kapeta, Youth Ambassador - Save the Children, Posted on: 6 June 2013 - Categories: Development Debates, Nutrition, Tanzania

My name is Frank, I’m 17 years and live in Tanzania. When I was growing up I often had just 1 meal a day. Between the ages of 2 and 4, my family frequently faced hunger and malnutrition. Some days I felt …

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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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How Soccer Aid is saving lives in Chad

Posted by: Michael Sheen, Posted on: 6 February 2013 - Categories: Africa, Development Debates, Health

...ultimately learning how to keep their children safe from illnesses such as diarrhoea. I walked into a courtyard to find a sea of women, covered head to toe in a...

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Signing out with good grace from 'Naija'

Posted by: Ian Attfield, Education Adviser, Posted on: 15 July 2010 - Categories: Nigeria

The rainy season is now in full swing and Northern Nigeria is rapidly greening once more, with crops of maize and millet growing fast. I’ve survived my last domestic flight through a brewing storm, with turbulence so bad it dumped most …

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