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Zambia Study on Undernutrition: Call for Abstracts
Zambia is the next in the Institute for Development Studies series of country-focused collections of papers on undernutrition. The series has generated the IDS Bulletins on India (2009 and 2012), Pakistan (2013) and now Zambia (2014). As with the others in the series, the Zambia collection highlights contributions from national researchers, practitioners and policymakers living in Zambia.
July 31, 2013 - Last update: February 10, 2023
Zambia is the next in the Institute for Development Studies series of country-focused collections of papers on undernutrition.
The series has generated the IDS Bulletins on India (2009 and 2012), Pakistan (2013) and now Zambia (2014).
As with the others in the series, the Zambia collection highlights contributions from national researchers, practitioners and policymakers living in Zambia.
The collection of short papers will help to do several things (a) strengthen the Zambian network of nutrition commentators, activists, analysts and strategists, (b) provide these professionals additional links to the international nutrition community, (c) generate new insights about the nature of undernutrition in Zambia, what to do about it and how to go about it, and (d) sustain and hopefully increase the momentum within Zambia for undernutrition reduction.
The co-editors of the collection are Dr. Cassim Massi the Executive Director of the National Food and Nutrition Commission and SUN Government Focal Point; Musonda Mofu, the Acting Deputy Executive Director of the Commission; Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University; and Jody Harris, a researcher at IFPRI who is very familiar with Zambian nutrition.
A call for abstracts in the following areas has been announced.
- Determinants of stunting in Zambia
- Interventions and Approaches that are proven to work in reducing malnutrition in Zambia
- Approaches to implementing the 1000 Day Programme
- What can be done to raise the profile of nutrition within the economic growth agenda?
- Policy, capacity, resource and evidence priorities
Interested authors are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 200 words to j.harris@cgiar.org by September 1, 2013.
Authors of selected abstracts will be contacted by the editors by September 15, 2013 and invited to submit a full paper (of no more than 4000 words in length) for consideration by November 30, 2013.
The edited book will be published in mid 2014. Submissions are particularly sought from Zambian authors.
