Browsing by Subject "United Nations"

Fish is food--the FAO's fish price index.

Tveterås, Sigbjørn; Asche, Frank; Bellemare, Marc F; Smith, Martin D; Guttormsen, Atle G; Lem, Audun; Lien, Kristin; ... (8 authors) (PLoS One, 2012)

World food prices hit an all-time high in February 2011 and are still almost two and a half times those of 2000. Although three billion people worldwide use seafood as a key source of animal protein, the Food and Agriculture ...

Informing the 2011 UN Session on Noncommunicable Diseases: applying lessons from the AIDS response.

Lamptey, Peter; Merson, Michael; Piot, Peter; Reddy, K Srinath; Dirks, Rebecca (PLoS Med, 2011-09)

Mapping 123 million neonatal, infant and child deaths between 2000 and 2017.

Burstein, Roy; Henry, Nathaniel J; Collison, Michael L; Marczak, Laurie B; Sligar, Amber; Watson, Stefanie; Marquez, Neal; ... (559 authors) (Nature, 2019-10-16)

Since 2000, many countries have achieved considerable success in improving child survival, but localized progress remains unclear. To inform efforts towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3.2-to end preventable ...

Synergy in Paradox: The Role of Food Aid and Assistance in Addressing the Double Burden of Malnutrition in Ghana

Torto, Niisoja (2019-12-05)

In many low- and middle-income countries, the coexistence of undernutrition with overweight and obesity threatens economic development and progress to improve health. This double burden of malnutrition demands a re-evaluation ...