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  • An Investment Framework for Nutrition

    Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting

    by Meera Shekar, Jakub Kakietek, Julia Dayton Eberwein, Dylan Walters ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    An Investment Framework for Nutrition: Reaching the Global Targets for Stunting, Anemia, Breastfeeding, and Wasting estimates the costs, impacts, and financing scenarios to achieve the World Health Assembly global nutrition targets for stunting, anemia in women, exclusive breastfeeding and the scaling up of the treatment of severe wasting among young children. To reach these four targets, the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024

    An Update to the Investment Framework for Nutrition

    Edited by Chiara Dell'Aira, Mireya Vilar-Compte, Kyoko Shibata Okamura, Meera Shekar ...
    Series series Human Development Perspectives
    In 2017, the Investment Framework for Nutrition set the stage for transformative nutrition investments, culminating in strong donor and country commitments at the 2021 Tokyo Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit. Now-with only six years left to 2030the world is facing poly-crises, including food and nutrition insecurity, climate shocks, fiscal constraints, and rising rates of overweight, obesity, and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Obesity

    Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge

    Edited by Meera Shekar, Barry Popkin ...
    Series series Human Development Perspectives
    Obesity is a global ticking time bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. As of 2016, an estimated 44 percent of adults (more than two billion) worldwide are overweight or obese, and over 70 percent of them live in low- or middle-income countries, dispelling the myth that obesity is a problem only in high-income countries. The global obesity epidemic ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Obesity

    Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge

    Edited by Meera Shekar, Barry Popkin ...
    Series series Human Development Perspectives
    Obesity is a global ticking time bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. As of 2016, an estimated 44 percent of adults (more than two billion) worldwide are overweight or obese, and over 70 percent of them live in low- or middle-income countries, dispelling the myth that obesity is a problem only in high-income countries. The global obesity epidemic ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routledge Handbook of Food and Nutrition Security

    Edited by Bill Pritchard, Rodomiro Ortiz, Meera Shekar ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade. Yet it is a complex and multi-faceted issue, requiring a broad and inter-disciplinary perspective for full understanding. This Handbook represents the most comprehensive compilation of our current knowledge of food and nutrition security from a global perspective. It ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Scaling Up Nutrition

    What Will It Cost?

    by Susan Horton, Meera Shekar, Christine McDonald, Ajay Mahal, Jana Krystene Brooks ...
    Series series Directions in Development - Human Development
    A practical guide to scaling up nutrition interventions in developing countries. This book addresses the urgent need to combat undernutrition, which affects millions of children and hinders economic development. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the costs and financing mechanisms required to scale up effective nutrition interventions in 36 countries with the highest burden of undernutrition ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scaling Up Nutrition: What Will It Cost?

    by Horton Susan; Shekar Meera; Ajay Mahal ...
    Action against malnutrition is needed more than ever. An additional US10.3 billion a year is required from public resources to mount a successful attack against undernutrition on a worldwide scale. This would benefit over 360 million children in the 36 countries with the highest burden of undernutrition home to 90 percent of the stunted children worldwide and prevent 1.1 million child deaths. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Malnutrition in all its forms undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight and obesity imposes unacceptably high economic and social costs on countries at all income levels. The State of Food and Agriculture 2013: Food systems for better nutrition argues that improving nutrition and reducing these costs must begin with food and agriculture. The traditional role of agriculture in ... Read more

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    Obesity and the Limits of Shame

    by Patrick Luciani, Neil Seeman ...
    Obese individuals are twice as likely to experience heart failure as non-obese people. More than eighty-five per cent of type 2 diabetes sufferers are overweight. And in the United States, obese and overweight individuals make up more than two-thirds of the adult population. Public health organizations and governments have traditionally tried to combat obesity through shame-inducing policies, ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean: Towards Healthier Food Environments That Address All Forms of Malnutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Latin America and the Caribbean managed to reduce the number of undernourished by 20 million compared to the year 2000. However, 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year in which hunger shows a continuous increases.Moderate or severe food insecurity in Latin America increased considerably. This increase caused more than 32 million people to join the almost 155 million who lived in food insecurity in ... Read more

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  • The Fattening of America

    How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It

    by Eric A. Finkelstein, Laurie Zuckerman ...
    A guide to how America became the fattest nation, and how the food industry and the government keep it that way.In The Fattening of America, renowned health economist Eric Finkelstein, along with business writer Laurie Zuckerman, reveal how the US economy has become the driving force behind our expanding waistlines. Blending theory, research, and engaging personal anecdotes, the authors discuss ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Milk and Dairy Products in Human Nutrition

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    Milk and dairy products are a vital source of nutrition for many people. They also present livelihood opportunities for farm families, processors and other stakeholders in dairy value chains. Consumers, industry and governments need up-to-date information on how milk and dairy products can contribute to human nutrition and how dairy-industry development can best contribute to increasing food ... Read more

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