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</span><font size="2">October blog<span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in -92.1pt 12pt 0in;"><font size="2"><i><span style="font-family: Garamond; color: white;" lang="EN-GB"><span> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Franklin Gothic Heavy"; color: white;" lang="EN-GB">Claudio Schuftan </span></font></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Here is a quick summary of some actions that have been deemed relevant
to nutrition in impoverished countries around the world:<span> </span></span></font></p><font size="4">
</font><ul><li><font size="4"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Equitable economic
development is positively related to nutritional improvement.</span></font></li></ul><ul><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Equitable
growth strategies are a more efficient long-term means of alleviating poverty
and indirectly improving nutrition, than targeted poverty
alleviation programmes.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Quantity,
quality and distribution of social expenditures are central for the above to
happen. </span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Mutually
reinforcing long-term effects on nutrition can be had by investing in women’s
health and in their education.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Social
discrimination against women is common in countries where nutrition has not
improved.</span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Participatory processes in nutrition programmes are
as important as their activities as such. </span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">A mix of
top-down and bottom-up interventions is the most pragmatic and effective
approach often generating synergies. </span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">The most
successful and sustainable nutrition programmes have strong community
ownership. <br></span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Nutrition
issues can and have influenced broader development policies. <br></span></font></li><li><font size="4"><span style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">Development of an
explicit<span style="color: blue;"> </span>nutrition policy is a vital prerequisite
to the mobilisation of sectoral awareness and support.</span></font></li><li><font size="4">
<span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB">A synthesis of the
recent lessons learned (pertaining to<span style="color: blue;"> </span>reasons
behind real nutritional improvements) still leaves us with some apprehensions,
because, when malnutrition (an outcome indicator) improves, it leaves no
explicit track or trail of why it did so. It basically is still left to us to
sort out the<span> </span>reasons.</span></font><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;color:white;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></li></ul><br>Only local action, community mobilisation and holding authorities to account creates the needed enabling environment for improving nutrition.<br><br>To read the full blog, go to<br>
<font size="4"><span style="font-family: Garamond;" lang="EN-GB"><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1wZ">http://wp.me/plAxa-1wZ</a> <br><br>Claudio </span></font><br>
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