Publications List
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Educational and Health Impacts of Two School Feeding Schemes: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina...
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Guidelines for measuring household and individual dietary diversity
The rationale for these guidelines is to provide a standardized questionnaire of universal applicability from which various dietary diversity scores can be calculated. As such it is not culture,...
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A New Deal for School Gardens
The garden curriculum: School gardens cannot singlehandedly raise the level of children’s health or substitute for school meals – but they can contribute to them. Above all, they must be...
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Food for Education Indicator Guide
In this document, FFE is defined as a program using food as a resource to improve educationaloutcomes. FFE programs are designed and implemented as part of a larger effort to improveeducational...
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Multi-micronutrient-fortified biscuits decreased the prevalence of anaemia and improved iron status, whereas weekly iron supplementation only improved iron status in Vietnamese school children
In Vietnam, nutrition interventions do not target school children despite a high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies. The present randomised, placebo-controlled study evaluated the impact of...
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School-feeding and Nutrition Guidance
All WFP-supported school meals and snacks programmes have nutritional benefits in the sense that they provide nutritious, fortified foods. However not all programmes will have a specific nutrition...
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Un Bagage pour La Vie
Un Bagage pour la Vie réunit les ressources des secteurs de la santé, de l’éducation, de la nutrition et des installations sanitaires dans une infrastructure existante : l’école. Même si...
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HIV/AIDS & School Feeding
WFP encourages parents to send their children to school by providing a nutritious meal and, in special cases, by offering a take-home ration for the whole family. Remarkably effective, this technique...
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Home-Grown School Feeding: A Framework to Link School Feeding with Local Agricultural Production
This document focuses mainly on HGSF as it links to small-scale farmers. Small-scale farmers are poor because of inadequate access to assets such as land, water and human capital. In addition, their...
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Programmatic Guidance Brief on Use of Micronutrient Powders (MNP) for Home Fortification
Home fortification is an innovation aimed at improving diet quality of nutritionally vulnerable groups, such as young children. The term Micronutrient Powders (MNP) refers to sachets containing dry...