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SPRING draws together technical experts in maternal and child nutrition from five leading partner organizations.
This study uses a nationally representative sample of Ugandan households to rigorously examine how adoption of improved dairy cow breeds impacts enterprise, household, and individual child nutrition outcomes.
Eldis launched a Nutrition Resource Guide in November 2014 to look specifically at the causes and consequences of malnutrition, nutrition-specific interventions, nutrition-sensitive interventions, and the political economy of undernutrition.
This report examines African agricultural development paths over the last 30 years, including the complex link of agriculture and food security in a constantly evolving context.
The High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition is launching a study on critical and emerging issues in the area of food security and nutrition to inform the work of the UN Committee on World Food Security. Follow the link to provide inputs on those areas relevant to your work.
Building on the Nutrition-Specific and Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions to Accelerate Progress (see above), this brief delves deeper into agriculture-nutrition linkages, including a look at how optimal nutrition strengthens agricultural production and agro-based communities.
This overview from the Maternal and Young Child Nutrition Security Initiative in Asia outlines linkages between nutrition and a variety of development sectors.
A Feed the Future program in Kenya has teamed up with the country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and the Ministry of Health to improve the nutrition of rural Kenyan farming families at a large scale.
Donor Platform is hosting a virtual briefing with Paulus Verschuren, Special Envoy Food and Nutrition Security for Development from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
SPRING, in collaboration with the European Union, USAID, UNICEF, and Community Connector is supporting the Uganda government’s launch of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) on February 23, 2013.
The annual LCIRAH conference brings together researchers from around the world, this year to examine the impact of agri-food policies, institutions, and governance on human health and nutrition. You are invited to submit research studies in one of the following broad themes:
The World Vegetable Center’s 33rd International Vegetable Training Course aims to enhance technical, scientific, and managerial skills of the participants to contribute to sustainable development of their countries.
Since 2009, Opportunity International has disbursed more than 164,000 agricultural loans and opened more than 618,000 rural savings accounts across Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, and Mozambique.
The FSN invites you to provide your comments on the zero draft of the political outcome document available in the six UN languages through a public online consultation. In providing your inputs, please focus on the set of questions included on the site.
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) concluded its consultative process to develop and ensure broad ownership of principles for responsible agricultural investments (CFS-RAI). The need to focus on losses and waste, food used for other purposes (e.g.
Following a previous Learning in Action article on USAID/Guatemala's perspective on learning within WHIP
The February 2014 edition of the WASH/Nutrition Literature Update included a wide range of articles, including a study that examines the relationship between WASH, environmental enteropathy, and early childhood development.
According to the authors of this 1998 article, the ‘food system’ is a widely used concept, but with few systematic frameworks that model its full scope and structure.
Agriculture is often viewed as a predominantly economic activity. But in the 1960’s and 1970’s, concerns about food shortages and growing populations led to an increased focus among policymakers, researchers, and donor agencies on maximizing agriculture’s nutritional potential.
The Agriculture and Nutrition Resource Review is a selection of materials that will help you keep on top of research and developments related to strengthening linkages between agriculture and nutrition.