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July 2014

Issue 4 / English

Editorials

• Editorial (page 3)

Original articles

• Tackling high defaulting rates in refugee camp settings – lessons from Chad (page 10)
• Lessons learned from the 2011/2012 Kenya blanket supplementary feeding programme (page 11)
• Managing acute malnutrition with scarce resources in Pakistan (page 13)
• Overcoming RUTF storage challenges in Tigray, northern Ethiopia (page 16)
• School feeding: experiences from Somalia (page 17)
• Enlisting donkeys to improve nutrition support in rural Ethiopia (page 18)
• Update on IYCF progress in Balochistan, Pakistan (page 22)
• Feasting on vegetables in a non-vegetarian community: experiences from Tanzania (page 23)
• Women’s gardening in The Gambia (page 24)
• Cash transfers for Somali refugees: experiences from a pilot programme in Ethiopia (page 25)
• Supporting nutrition and protecting livelihoods (page 27)
• Scaling up nutrition: experiences from Balochistan, Pakistan (page 32)

Article summaries

• Joint UNICEF/WHO/The World Bank Child malnutrition database (page 4)
• Critical windows for nutrition interventions against stunting (page 5)
• Using Mid-Upper Arm Circumference to end treatment of Severe Acute Malnutrition leads to higher weight gains in the most malnourished children (page 5)
• Maternal and Child Nutrition (MCN) (page 6)
• Association between economic growth and early childhood undernutrition: evidence from 121 demographic and health surveys from 36 low-income and middle-income countries (page 7)
• The effectiveness of blanket supplementary feeding programmes in preventing acute malnutrition: evidence from research carried out in Chad (page 7)
• Alive and Thrive forum on stunting reduction: October 2013 (page 8)
• Integrated programme achieves good survival but moderate recovery rates among children with severe acute malnutrition in India (page 8)
• Wasting & stunting technical interest group meeting: summary points (page 9)
• ACF Access for All short paper series (page 15)
• Meeting demand peaks for CMAM in government health services in Kenya (page 15)
• Nutrition Impact and Positive Practice Circles (page 20)
• Maternal nutrition in emergencies: Summary of the state of play and key gaps (page 30)
• Nutrition of adolescent girls in lowand middle-income countries (page 30)
• The effect of interventions to improve water quality and supply, provide sanitation and promote handwashing with soap on physical growth in children (Cochrane review) (page 31)
• Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental enteropathy, nutrition, and early child development: making the links (page 31)
• Maximising the Quality of Scaling Up Nutrition Programmes Framework (MQSUN) (page 34)

News & Views

• Squeezed: life in a time of food price volatility, year 1 results (page 28)
• Wild food, prices, diets and development: sustainability and food security in urban Cameroon (page 28)
• Resilience measurement principles - FSIN Technical Series No. 1 (page 29)
• Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2): background papers (page 29)
• Tufts University Feinstein International Centre publications (page 29)

Events

• Events (page 35)

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