Description: Madagascar : Increasing Food Security and Nutrition

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Madagascar : Increasing Food Security and Nutrition

This article previews the Food Security and Nutrition Project, which is primarily active in two of Madagascar's six provinces. The project has three components: (a) income generating activities to be carried out through: (i) the Fonds d'I...

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Main Author:	Murray, Eileen
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	FOOD SECURITY NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS IODINE MALNUTRITION DEFICIENCY DISEASES INCOME GENERATION FOOD SHORTAGES NUTRITION NUTRITION PROGRAMS BENEFICIARY ASSESSMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT EMPLOYMENT FOOD INSECURITY GOITRE HEALTH SERVICES HOUSING HOUSING CONDITIONS IDD INCOME INFANT MORTALITY INFANT MORTALITY RATE INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT INTERNATIONAL LABOUR IODINE DEFICIENCY IODINE DEFICIENCY DISORDERS LIVE BIRTHS MALNOURISHED CHILDREN MORTALITY MOTHERS NUTRITION EDUCATION NUTRITION PROGRAMS NUTRITIONAL STATUS PARENTS PARTNERSHIP POOR HOUSEHOLDS POVERTY LINE POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATE SECTOR PUBLIC TAPS RECURRENT COSTS RIVERS RURAL AREAS SALT IODIZATION SCHOOLS URBAN AREAS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1995/08/1615076/madagascar-increasing-food-security-nutrition http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9988

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Summary:	This article previews the Food Security and Nutrition Project, which is primarily active in two of Madagascar's six provinces. The project has three components: (a) income generating activities to be carried out through: (i) the Fonds d'Intervention pour le Developpement (FID) financing labor intensive works and other income generation activities, and (ii) a food for work program targeted to the urban poor in Greater Antananarivo; (b) nutrition interventions including: (i) a community nutrition program in the provinces of Toliary and Antananarivo working through mothers' groups organized by a community nutrition agent supported by nongovernmental organizations to provide nutrition education, arrange supplemental feeding and refer severe cases of malnutrition to nutrition rehabilitation centers operating under medical supervision, and (ii) a national iodine deficiency disorders control program; and (c) institutional strengthening to support the development and execution of an information, education and communication program and support the development of a national food security strategy for the long term.