Nutrition-sensitive agriculture boosts sustainable humanitarian assistance: evidence from orange-fleshed sweetpotato interventions in Kenya
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Climate-related shocks have become increasingly frequent in arid and semi-arid regions, disrupting livelihoods and entrenching vulnerability in millions of people living in these regions. For instance, in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), over four million people face acute food insecurity and about 650,000 children below the age of five are acutely malnourished.
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