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Towards a data users’ framework to advance Sustainable Development Goal 2

Author Contributions

Sylvia Szabo designed the study and contributed the most of the first draft of the manuscript. Sinead
Mowlds, Joan Manuel Claros, Anuja Kar, William Knechtel, Mariella di Ciommo, and Ima Ka-
shim contributed in the writing of the initial draft and subsequent revisions.

Ethics Statement

No ethics approval was required for this study.
Disclaimer

The views expressed in this work are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of
the Save the Children UK, Scaling- Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat, Global Agriculture
and Food Security, Brookings Institution, Development Initiatives or Thousand Days, and are not
necessarily attributable to their organisations.

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