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1 December 2014: Merlin recently joined forces with Save the Children. The 'Merlin History Project' has been launched to record Merlin's story and recognise its humanitarian and health contributions. Click here to feed in your recollections and reflections. 

1 December 2014: Generation Nutrition highlights 12 facts about acute malnutrition you might not know and how you can use your voice for change. Click here to find out more and to tweet messages to spread the word. 

1 December 2014: One-year postdoctoral fellowships available to develop analytical tools on agriculture and nutrition under the DFID funded IMMANA partnership with LSHTM and Tufts University. Concept notes by 10th January, 2015 to immanafellowships@tufts.edu

1 December 2014: Field Exchange 48 is now online and includes a 'views' article written by the editors on the Syria response. A discussion is now open on en-net on this article. We would love to hear your views. 

Papers and publications

1 December 2014: The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition (GLOPAN) has produced its first technical brief - 'how can agriculture and food systems policies improve nutrition?' Download here and watch the accompanying video

1 December 2014: New paper out by MSF: 'Assessing the prevalence of malnutrition in tribal children using MUAC as a screening tool' by Mohtashim A. Qureshi et al. Available from F1000 Research here

Events

20 December 2014: The Nutrition and Social Behaviour Change Working Groups of the Core Group held a webinar on Ebola and nutrition on 17th December 2014. The four presentations (pdfs and recordings of each) are available here