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Building forward fairer: Women’s rights to work and at work at the core of the COVID-19 recovery

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International Labour Organizaion International Labour Organization 2021-7-19
Brief on women’s employment which has been negatively impacted in terms of both quantity and quality, although with substantial regional variations. It provides a snapshot of new and continuing measures that governments have adopted to mitigate the employment and income ...
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The state of food security and nutrition in the world 2021: Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all

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FAO FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO 2021-7-12
FAO State of the World series Flagship Report 2021 including chapters on the state of food security and nutrition around the world, major drivers of recent food security and nutrition trends, and what needs to be done to transform food ...
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on rural women and men in Kenya

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IFPRI Alvi, M.., Gupta, S., Barooah, P. 2020-7-12
Article on a longitudinal panel study assessing the impact of COVID-19 in women and men in rural Kenya. The Kenyan government declared a nationwide dusk to dawn curfew in March 2020 that was lifted in large parts later in the ...
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Intergenerational nutrition benefits of India’s national school feeding program

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Nature Communications Chakrabarti, S., Scott, S., Alserman, H., Menon, P., Gilligan, D. 2021-7-12
Article on whether Mid-Day Meal (MDM) supports intergenerational improvements in child linear growth. Here we report that height-for-age z-score (HAZ) among children born to mothers with full MDM exposure was greater (+0.40 SD) than that in children born to non-exposed mothers. ...
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Building a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to the COVID-19 pandemic

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BMJ Global Health Wernli, D., Clausin, M., Antulov-Fantulin, N., Berezowski, J., Biller-Andorno, N., Blanchet, K., Bottcher, L., Fukuda, K., Helbing, D., Jaffe, P., Jorgensen, P., Kaspiarovich, Y., Krishnakumar, J., Lawrence, R., Lee, K., Leger, A., Levrat, N., Martischang, R., Morel, C., Pittet, D., Stauffer, M., Tediosi, F., Vanackere, F., Vassalli, J., Wolff, G., Young, O. 2021-7-07
Article on delineating a multisystemic understanding of societal resilience to COVID-19 drawing on the emerging evidence about resilience in health, social, economic, environmental and governance systems. The current global systemic crisis reveals how globalised societies are unprepared to face a ...
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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