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Children's Work in African Agriculture: Time for a rethink
This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural areas. On the other hand, is the
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Learning Brief: Village Savings and Loans Associations Promote Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This is a learning brief developed by the USAID/Nutrition and Hygiene project (Projet Nutrition et Hygiène- PNH). Access to sustainable micro-credit was long considered impossible in the rural communities of Mali’s Sikasso Region. Yet, with the support of
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Learning Brief: Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This is a learning brief from the USAID/Nutrition and Hygiene Project (Projet Nutrition et Hygiène) that was implemented in Mali from 2013-2019. This focuses on agriculture as an approach to improve nutritional status among women of reproductive age and c
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Accelerating Healthy Agriculture and Nutrition (AHAN) Project: Gender analysis
This gender analysis developed recommendations for prioritizing actions under the specific gender objective of World Vision's AHAN Project. The Accelerating Healthy Agriculture and Nutrition (AHAN) Project, led by World Vision and funded by the European U
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The Importance of Understanding and Monitoring the Effects of Cash Transfer Programmes on Child Labour and Education: Findings from Malawi
The Malawi Social Cash Transfer Programme (SCTP) has been demonstrated to have a wide range of positive effects on beneficiary households, including an expansion of household agricultural business activities. This brief summarizes the results of two studi
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Implementing the Care Group Approach: Tanzania case study
The Harnessing Agriculture for Nutrition Outcomes (HANO) project is an Irish Aid funded multi-year project (2012-2017) implemented by Save the Children in collaboration with Lindi Support Agency for Welfare and Ruangwa Organization for Poverty Alleviation
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Child Labour in Agriculture in Protracted Crises, Fragile and Humanitarian Contexts: Pilot version
This guidance note provides technical and operational guidance to stakeholders of the agriculture, food security and nutrition sector intervening in protracted crises, fragile and humanitarian contexts to ensure that children are not engaged in activities
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Nutrition Sensitivity: How agriculture can improve child nutrition
This report examines the relationship between agriculture and nutrition in developing countries, focusing on how nutrition is currently prioritized within agricultural policy frameworks, from the global to the district level. It suggests ways in which nut
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Engaging with Change: A Year in the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group FSNWG – 2013
The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) has served regional government, donor, and non-governmental agencies since the early 2000’s. Its goal is two-fold: to provide an up-to-date food security and nutrition situation analysis (early warning
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Meeting the HIV/AIDS Challenge to Food Security: the role of labour saving technologies in farm-households
The paper focuses on the various types and levels of constraints faced by farm-households as a production and reproduction system within a farming system such as time and energy limitations created by HIV/AIDS provoked shortages. The paper highlights the