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DocumentOther documentFAO - Nutrition country profiles: Antigua and Barbuda 2003 2003
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No results found.Very little recent national information is available on anthropometric measurements for children in Antigua and Barbuda. The latest available figures show that the level of undernutrition (weight for age) among children less than one year old was 1.4% in 1995, a decrease from the 1993 level of 2.3%. For children 1-4 years old, the level remained almost constant, 0.6% - 0.8% over the period 1993-1995, while among the wider age group, 0-5 years, there was a decline of 0.3% between 1996 and 1999. T he prevalence of overweight (weight for age) among children, less than one year old, was higher than that for underweight. It fluctuated during the period 1993- 1995, increasing overall from 7.4% to 8.5%. Among children 1-4 years, there was a slight decline between 1993 and 1995 (from 2.8% to 2.5%). Between 1997 and 1998 the prevalence of overweight decreased among children 0-5 years from 6.6% t0 5.8 % (Table 4a). A 1993 Ministry of Health survey found that the national prevalence of obesity (BM I: > 30) was 4.6%. Among persons 40 years and over, 60% men and 25% women were obese. No recent anthropometric data were available on adolescents in Antigua and Barbuda. -
DocumentOther documentFAO - Nutrition country profiles: Papua New Guinea 2003 2003
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No results found.According to surveys over the last 15 years, the nutritional status of children under five years in Papua New Guinea has not improved (Smith, 1992; Gibson and Rozelle, 1998). In rural areas there is a high prevalence of underweight, a very high prevalence of stunting and a medium prevalence of wasting in children under five years (Table 4a-1) (Monsef, 1998). The prevalence of underweight and wasting was highest among infants at one year, while stunting affected more than half of the children at four years. A sub-national survey carried out among children under five years reported a lower prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting in urban areas. Children under five years living in the Highlands have a greater risk of stunting than their coastal counterparts. However, children living in the coastal regions are more likely to be wasted (Table 4a-2) (Gibson and Rozelle, 1998). -
DocumentOther documentFAO - Nutrition country profiles: Vanuatu 2003 2003
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No results found.Vanuatu is situated in the south west Pacific Ocean. While the rural population follows a predominantly subsistence lifestyle, the urban population has adopted a more westernised lifestyle. Vanuatu’s traditional staple foods are root crops, such as yam and taro, although starchy fruits such as plantain and breadfruit are also seasonally important. The consumption of traditional foods was highest in the rural and lowest in the urban areas. Consumption of imports such as rice, fat/oils, canned and fresh meat/fish, milk and bread was highest in the urban and lowest in the rural areas. The rise in non-communicable diseases has been attributed, in part, to this transition away from traditional foods in favour of imported ones. This also has an impact on agricultural production, food security and self-sufficiency in food production (Carlot-Tary et al., 2000).
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No results found.The FAOSTAT emissions database is composed of several data domains covering the categories of the IPCC Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector of the national GHG inventory. Energy use in agriculture is additionally included as relevant to emissions from agriculture as an economic production sector under the ISIC A statistical classification, though recognizing that, in terms of IPCC, they are instead part of the Energy sector of the national GHG inventory. FAO emissions estimates are available over the period 1961–2018 for agriculture production processes from crop and livestock activities. Land use emissions and removals are generally available only for the period 1990–2019. This analytical brief focuses on overall trends over the period 2000–2018. -
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