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78PUBLICATIONSwww.unsystem.org/scnEssential delivery care practices for maternal andnewborn health and nutritionPAHO (online, E/S)This publication highlights and reinforces theimportance of several delivery care practicesfor short and long-term maternal and newbornhealth and nutrition. It briefly outlinesthe evidence supporting the recommendeddelivery care practices for improving maternaland infant health and nutrition, and thenproposes an integrated sequence of steps for the implementationof the recommended practices. Because the document focuses onboth the public health consequences of the recommended practicesas well as practical aspects for their implementation, it isequally useful to health-care practitioners involved in maternal andnewborn health and nutrition as to public-health policy makers.www.paho.orgOpportunities for Africa’s Newborns:Practical data, policy and programmatic support for newborncare in Africa AED (online)Each year at least 1.16 million newborns diein Sub-Saharan Africa. The African regionhas the highest rates of neonatal mortality inthe world, and has shown the slowest progressso far in reducing neonatal deaths.However there is hope. In the past year therate of policy change in African countries farexceeded expectations, providing opportunitiesto accelerate progress for maternal, newborn and child health.www.aed.orgTrade Policies and Hunger: The impact of trade liberalizationon the right to food of rice farming communitiesin Ghana, Honduras and Indonesia.FIAN (online)The aim of the present study is to find outwhether the Right to Adequate Food of specificrice producing communities in Ghana,Honduras and Indonesia has been negativelyaffected or violated through specificrice trade policies. The study thereforeanalyses causal chains, first between sharpincreases of rice imports and hunger, malnutritionand food insecurity, and second between these import increasesand certain trade and agricultural policies. Possible otherfactors, such as natural disasters, land tenure arrangements oraccess to infrastructure are given due attention in order to put theinfluence of trade policies in context. The case studies also distinguishbetween the different responsibilities of national governments,external states and intergovernmental organizations.www.fian.orgReview of the Vitamin Asupplementation program forchildren aged 6-59 months andpostpartum women in CambodiaHelen Keller International(online)www.hki.orgThe Human Right to Food as a U.S. Nutrition Concern:IFPRI Discussion PaperMesser E, Cohen MJ (online)The U.S. government has continually expandedfood and nutrition assistance athome and abroad, but not within a humanrights framework. What might a humanrights perspective add, and what are thecontinuing rationales of the opposition?Qualitative analyses of historical policyposition papers, testimonies, researchreports, and the popular nutrition literature are used to evaluatehow human rights and the HRF—as framing and rhetoric—haveinfluenced nutrition policy, public and official understanding, andoutreach. In this documentation process, the authors also integrateinformation from the wider "human rights" positions of thefood-and-nutrition advocacy community to demonstrate wherethese different advocacy agents, organizations, and agendas fit inthis process of advancing a HRF sensibility.www.ifpri.orgIndia Micronutrient NationalInvestment Plan 2007-2011The Micronutrient Initiative(online)www.micronutrient.orgMicronutrient Update 2007Mukuria AG, Kothari MT (online)Micronutrient deficiencies are major contributorsto morbidity and mortality amongwomen and children in the developingworld. This update of 2002 MicronutrientUpdate presents information on womenand children from Demographic andHealth Surveys conducted between 2000and 2005.www.usaid.orgWorld Food Security:A History since 1945Shaw DJwww.palgrave-usa.comStuffed and starved:markets, power and the hiddenbattle for the world food systemPatel Rwww.stuffedandstarved.orgSCN NEWS # 35 back to contents