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Renewed conflict in the north and historic drought in the south drive extreme concern for food insecurity

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  • Climate Shocks
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Famine Early Systems Network Famine Early Systems Network 2022-8-1
Article on Ethiopia's crisis: the resumption of conflict in northern Ethiopia and four consecutive seasons of drought in southern and eastern areas, inclusive of the worst season on record in 2022. Across most of these areas, at a minimum, Emergency ...
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Progress on WASH in health care facilities 2000-2021: Special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control (IPC)

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UNICEF WHO, UNICEF 2022-8-1
Report on national, regional and global estimates for WASH in health care facilities up to the year 2021, with a special focus on WASH and infection prevention and control (IPC). The report has established a new global baseline on hygiene ...
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Drought special report

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FSNWG FSNWG 2022-7-29
Report on an update on the progression of drought, region's overall food security and nutrition situation. The report also covers seasonal progress and provides projection on the likely food security and nutrition situation through February 2023. The key findings were ...
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Disruptions, restorations and adaptations to health and nutrition service delivery in multiple states across India over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: An observational study

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  • Women and/or Girls
Plos One Avula, R., Nguyen, P. H., Ashok, S., Bajaj, S., Kachwaha, S., Pant, A., Walia, M., Singh, A., Pau,l A., Kulkarni, B., Singhania, D., Escobar-Alegria, J., Augustine, L..F, Khanna, M., Krishna, M., Sundaravathanam, N., Nayak, P. K., Sharma, P. K., Makkar, P., Ghosh, P. , Subramaniam, S., Mala, S., Giri, R., Jain, S, Banjara, S. K., Nair, S., Ghosh, S., Das, S., Patil, S., Mahapatra, T., Forissier ,T., Nanda, P., Krishnan, S., Menon, P. 2022-07-27
Article on the disruptions and restorations, challenges and adaptations in health and nutrition service delivery by frontline workers (FLWs) in India during COVID-19 in 2020. Phone surveys were conducted phone surveys with 5500 FLWs (among them 3118 Anganwadi Workers) in ...
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Food security and gender equality: A synergistic understudied symphony

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Care Selva, M., Janoch, E. 2022-7-27
Article on the correlation between gender inequality values and food security scores worldwide combined with existing literature and rich studies on the links between gender and food in specific contexts to create powerful insights on the need that the world ...
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Asia and the Pacific regional overview of food security and nutrition 2022: Urban food systems and nutrition – Launch recording, Key messages & Full report

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2023-01-24
Press release on the launch and key messages of the fifth annual Asia-Pacific regional SOFI report. The report’s highlights capture the challenges and system-level determinants of unhealthy diets in urban areas, both regarding undernutrition and overweight. It presents, among others, data on food security and affordability and the state of progress on achieving the global nutrition targets. The findings profile various urban environments, interventions, experiences, and opportunities to innovate at multiple levels to transform urban areas into sustainable cities. A link to the report's virtual launch event is available including the recording, key messages, and full report. View Source

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on diets, nutrition services & nutrition practices in UNICEF’s Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR): Evidence from remote surveys

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2023-01-01
Report on the impact of the COVID pandemic on diets, services, and practices in the Eastern and Southern Africa region. The report presents findings from remote surveys in six ESAR countries with data on breastfeeding, diet diversity, food consumption and insecurity, drivers of dietary changes, and disruptions to nutrition services. The survey provides important learning for the future use of remote methods for collecting nutrition data. Technical brief, pull report, and six country briefs are available. View Source

Economic shocks predict increases in child wasting prevalence

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2022-04-20
Article on the impact of severe negative economic shock on child acute malnutrition (wasting), a major risk factor for under-5 mortality. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks can substantially increase poverty and food insecurity. Less well understood are the implications of these contractions for child wasting. This study explores the nutritional impacts of economic growth shocks over 1990–2018 by linking wasting outcomes collected for 1.256 million children from 52 countries to lagged annual changes in economic growth. Estimates suggest that a 10% annual decline in national income increases moderate/severe wasting prevalence by 14.4–17.8%. An exploration of possible mechanisms suggests negative economic shocks may increase risks of inadequate dietary diversity among children. Applying these results to the latest economic growth estimates for 2020 suggests that COVID-19 could put an additional 9.4 million preschoolers at risk of wasting, net of the effects of preventative policy actions. View Source