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Book (stand-alone)PACIFIC FOOD SECURITY TOOLKIT - Guidelines for Estimating the Month and Year of Birth of Young Children
Age Estimation Techniques
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No results found.This Food Security Toolkit, designed specifically for Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs), aims to improve Pacific Islanders’ ability to produce and access safe and nutritious foods that meet their dietary and cultural needs. Targeting food security in the Pacific region is a critical action in the face of climate change, which will continue to place added pressure on existing food and water resources. The ultimate aim of the toolkit is to help ensure that Pacific Island communities continue to produce and have access to a wide range of nutritious food for the dinner plate and market place. The toolkit is divided into a series of modules, so as to accommodate future changes or additions. It includes an introductory module that looks at climate change in the Pacific, a module on key Pacific food production systems and two applied modules on Pacific root crops and Pacific fisheries. The toolkit also contains 55 “adaptation stepsâ€Â that are designed to provide idea s and, in some cases, practical measures that can be used and, with time, adapted to help maintain and strengthen food security in the face of climate change. Importantly, the toolkit provides its readers a list of existing tools and resources that present more detailed information on climate change adaptation measures, food security and related issues. -
Book (stand-alone)Summary of Proceedings of the International Scientific Symposium on Measurement and Assessment of Food Deprivation and Undernutrition
Rome, 26-28 June 2002
2002The World Food Summit mandated FAO to measure and monitor progress towards the Summit goal of halving the number of hungry by 2015. The decision to hold a scientific symposium on the measurement of food deprivation and undernutrition was motivated by this objective and the need to review the current status of the widely used methods for measuring hunger. It also aimed to recommend improvements in the methods, which would help FAO to further its work in carrying out this mandate. Since the monito ring of the progress towards the World Food Summit goal involves national and international stakeholders, the Symposium also provided an opportunity for them to present their perspectives. By promoting dialogue among advocates of various methods, the Symposium served to create a greater appreciation of the strengths and weaknesses of the different methods as well as how the corresponding measures complement each other. The main consensus to emerge at the Symposium was that no single measure c an capture all aspects of hunger while at the same time providing policy-makers with relevant and timely information in a cost-effective manner. Five methods were covered in the Symposium: 1) FAO method for measuring undernourishment by combining information from food balance sheets and household income and expenditure surveys. 2) Measuring food insecurity using household income and expenditure survey data. 3) Measuring adequacy of dietary intake based on individual intake surveys. 4) Measuring child nutritional status based on anthropometric surveys. 5) Qualitative methods for measuring people's perception of food insecurity and hunger. -
BookletCorrelates of dietary diversification among children aged 6-23 months in Afikepo programme districts 2020
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No results found.In Malawi, close to one million children aged less than five years are suffering from stunting which is an indicator of chronic malnutrition. Stunting manifests strongly during the first 1 000 days, that is, from conception to the age of two years. This implies that nutrition interventions put in place within the first 1 000 days are likely to have significant impact on the reduction of stunting. This article focuses on the correlates of dietary diversity among children 6 to 23 months. Minimum dietary diversity is defined as the proportion of children 6 to 23 months consuming of four or more food groups from the seven food groups. This article further utilizes baseline data collected in ten districts between 26th October and 18th December 2018. The baseline survey used a cross-sectional multi-stage cluster sampling design. A total of 3 667 children aged 6 to 23 months were assessed from 9 505 households sampled across the 10 districts. The proportion of children 6 to 23 months meeting the minimum dietary diversity was estimated as 29.7% [95% CI: 28.2-31.2]. The results further indicate that children aged 9 to 11 months were nearly 5 times likely to meet the minimum dietary diversity compared with children 6 to 8 months (Odds Ratio: 4.85 [95% CI: 3.50 – 6.73]). Other correlates significantly associated with improved dietary diversification included region, availability of fruit trees and vegetable gardens at the homestead.
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