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On August 9, 2017, SPRING/Senegal and partner radio station Niombato FM organized a promotional hike in Toubacouta Village.
Yate is a mother in Tindo, Guinea whose young child was up the night before, sick from diarrhea. The next morning, she meets her neighbor Famata, who is shocked because the easy process of handwashing can help completely stop children from getting diarrhea.
Gnalen is the mother of a young son in Beindou, Guinea. One morning, her mother comes by and Gnalen asks her to watch her son while she prepares his meal.
Tenin is a pregnant woman in Tindo, Guinea. One day, the local community health worker (CHW) stops by her compound and speaks with her and her husband.
A community health worker comes across a man who is doing something he hasn’t seen before. When he asks, the man explains that he is drying potato leaves that he will be able to save in clean, dry containers so that his children will have healthy foods during the lean season.
The doctor at a health center greets a new mother and explains to her that when a baby is born they should immediately be breastfed, and that they should only receive breastmilk until they are six months old.
SPRING’s Gender Champion Approach aims to increase men and women’s partnership within the household in order to impact nutrition outcomes.
Executive Summary
In Sibinokho village in the Kaffrine Region of Senegal, women grow and eat a new kind of potato: the nutrient-rich orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP). This variety of potato is rich in vitamins A, B, and C, and is effective in reducing malnutrition.
As part of SPRING/Senegal’s multi-sectoral nutrition strategy, hygiene monitoring teams known as dynaset-setal groups conduct regular home visits to ensure that households meet basic hygiene standards.
Promoting and enabling diverse diets among children is key to stopping the vicious circle of malnutrition and disease.
How the horticulture and nutrition communities can work together to make fruits and vegetables a global priority.
World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is celebrated annually in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding to improve babies’ health and help prevent death among children under five.
Introduction, Objectives, and MethodsSPRING/Bangladesh is a seven-year USAID-funded project focused on the 1,000-days approach, promoting
SPRING/Ghana
At the ICTforAg 2017 conference, SPRING presented aspects of its social behavior change communication programming in Guinea.
Continuing a series on practical tools and approaches to address enabling environment constraints to food security, this Feed the Future blog examines the World Bank’s Enabling the Business of Agriculture Index (EBA) as a data based tool to inform food security reform efforts.
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The authors reflect on the first year of the Global Food Security Strategy under Feed the Future, taking into consideration renewed investment in resilience, sustainability, nutrition, and market systems.