Mapping the effects of drought on child stunting

In this article, the authors use geolocated child nutrition data from 53 developing countries to show that minor to severe droughts as well as severe periods of extreme rainfall are related to child stunting.

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Cooper, Matthew W.; Brown, Molly E.; Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; Pflug, Georg; McCallum, Ian; Fritz, Steffen; Silva, Julie; Zvoleff, Alexander
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Cooper, M. W., et al. 2019. Mapping the effects of drought on child stunting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(35): 17219-17224.

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Articles
Journal Article
Publication year: 
2020
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