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Food & Nutrition

Darfur Stove Use

Photo by Erin Patrick, Women’s Refugee Commission. Stove Cooking, Darfur.

Lack of safe access to sufficient cooking fuel can lead to unsafe cooking techniques which can also negatively impact nutritional intake. These negative impacts include: selling portions of rations to buy fuel and/or to mill food; trading rations for more appropriate/easier to cook food items; undercooking food to save time/fuel (which can lead to foodborne disease); skipping meals; use of unsafe/inappropriate fuel sources (plastic, etc.), leading to acute/chronic diseases; and improperly cooking unfamiliar food items, reducing nutritional uptake.

Food & Nutrition Resources

Cooking Fuel and the Humanitarian Response in Haiti
This document by the Women's Refugee Commission presents a guidance for action on cooking fuel and the humanitarian response in Haiti.

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Notes from the Field: Introducting Anagi Stoves in Sri Lanka, World Food Programme (2010)
These "Notes from the Field" from Giancarlo Stopponi of the World Food Programme document the selection, distribution and use of Anagi stoves in IDP camps in Sri Lanka in 2009.

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Safe Access to Firewood and Alternative Energy in Uganda: An Appraisal Report
Following the launch of the SAFE guidance material in April 2009, WFP decided to undertake two feasibility studies in North Darfur and Uganda, where fuel scarcity is negatively affecting WFP beneficiaries. The purpose of these studies is to better understand how beneficiaries are coping with fuel scarcity and the related consequences, to take stock of existing responses by both WFP and partners, and to propose a comprehensive approach that addresses human and environmental protection, livelihoods, food and nutrition.

Safe Access to Firewood and Alternative Energy in North Darfur: An Appraisal Report
Following the launch of the SAFE guidance material in April 2009, WFP decided to undertake two feasibility studies in North Darfur and Uganda, where fuel scarcity is negatively affecting WFP beneficiaries. The purpose of these studies is to better understand how beneficiary are coping with fuel scarcity and the related consequences, to take stock of existing responses by both WFP and partners, and to propose a comprehensive approach that addresses human and environmental protection, livelihoods, food and nutrition.

Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, Chapter 3: Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid

WFP’s “Women 2000” follow-up Statement (2006)

Brief statement on how WFP operations are meeting its eight Commitments to Women.

Cooking Options in Refugee Situations: A Handbook of Experiences in Energy Conservation and Alternative Fuels, UNHCR

WFP Environment Policy

WFP Food & Nutrition Handbook (key excerpts)

School Feeding best practices

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