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November 2016

Issue 53 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 1)

Field Articles

• Nutrition programming in conflict settings: Lessons from South Sudan (page 2)
• Pilot micronutrient powder distribution in Burundi: acting on lessons learned (page 5)
• Combined protocol for SAM/MAM treatment: The ComPAS study (page 44)
• Adapting a resilience improvement programme in conflict: Experiences from Yemen (page 47)
• Open Data Kit Software to conduct nutrition surveys: Field experiences from Northern Kenya (page 67)
• WHO emergency nutrition response in South Sudan (page 69)
• Sampling in insecure environments: Field experiences from coverage assessments in Afghanistan (page 75)
• Intergenerational cycle of acute malnutrition among IDPs in Somalia (page 79)

Research

• Research snapshots (page 8)
• Tackling the double burden of malnutrition in low and middle-income countries: response of the international community (page 12)
• Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme: Power, Politics and Practice (page 14)
• Admission profile and discharge outcomes for infants aged less than six months admitted to inpatient therapeutic care in ten countries (page 15)
• Chronic disease outcomes after SAM in Malawian children (ChroSAM): A cohort study (page 17)
• Adolescent nutrition in Mozambique: putting policy into practice (page 19)
• Robust evidence for an evidence-based approach to humanitarian action (page 21)
• Evidence in humanitarian emergencies: What does it look like? (page 22)
• Recovery rate of children with moderate acute malnutrition treated with ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) or improved corn-soya blend (CSB+) (page 23)
• Impact of child support grant in South Africa on child nutrition (page 25)
• Public health nutrition capacity: The quality of workforce for scaling up nutrition programmes (page 26)
• Research priorities on the relationship between wasting and stunting (page 28)
• The impact of intensive counselling and a mass media campaign on complementary feeding practices and child growth in Bangladesh (page 30)
• Direct procurement from family farms for national school feeding programme in Brazil (page 32)
• Relationships between wasting and stunting and their concurrent occurrence in Ghanaian pre-school children (page 33)
• Local spatial clustering of stunting and wasting among children under the age of five years (page 34)
• Carbohydrate malabsorption in acutely malnourished children and infants: A systematic review (page 36)
• Nutrition among men and household food security in an internally displaced persons camp in Kenya (page 37)
• How to engage across sectors: Lessons from agriculture and nutrition in the Brazilian School Feeding Programme (page 38)
• An investment framework for nutrition: Reaching the global targets for stunting, anaemia, breastfeeding and wasting (page 40)
• Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale (page 41)
• Role of nutrition in integrated early child development (page 43)
• Regional humanitarian challenges in the Sahel (page 61)

Agency Profiles

• WaterAid (page 72)

News & Views

• Grand Bargain: Reform or business as usual? (page 51)
• Call for experiences on mothers measuring MUAC (page 52)
• AuthorAID: A global network for early career researchers from low and middle-income countries (page 53)
• Accelerating the scale-up of treatment for severe acute malnutrition (page 54)
• Global School Feeding Sourcebook: Lessons from 14 countries (page 55)
• The missing ingredients: Are policy-makers doing enough on water, sanitation and hygiene to end malnutrition? (page 56)
• Nutrition funding: The missing piece of the puzzle (page 57)
• Biofortification: Helping meet nutrition needs worldwide (page 58)
• NOMA: a neglected disease! (page 62)
• eLearning module on improving nutrition through agriculture and food systems (page 64)
• Improving care of people with NCDs in humanitarian settings (page 64)
• FANTA's Body Mass Index (BMI) Wheel (page 65)
• Launch of BabyWASH Coalition (page 65)
• En-net update July to October 2016 inclusive (page 66)
• South Sudan nutrition: Overcoming the challenges of nutrition information systems (page 73)