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In Egypt, less than 5 percent of land is suitable for agriculture. To meet growing demand, aquaculture will need to come together with agriculture to increase food production per unit of land and water.
Working to update their previous IFPRI work, “Explaining Child Malnutrition in Developing Countries” (2000), Lisa Smith and Lawrence Haddad draw on data from 1970-2012 across 116 countries to get at the basic question: what drives undernutrition?
This article examines the vexing question of why Indian children from relatively well-off families with an ample supply of the nutritious food needed for a healthy diet still suffer from malnutrition.
This website follows on to the Nutrition for Growth Summit held in London in 2013 and includes resources related to the Global Nutrition Report, expected in November. The report will draw on country governments, SUN, WHO, UNICEF, FAO, WFP, and others to fill critical gaps around the world.
This article details the differences in product-related research and development among food, agricultural, and pharmaceutical sectors and how this might relate to framing a conversation around returns on investment for nutritious products.
This review begins by teasing out the differences between food insecurity and nutrition insecurity and moves on to examine research linking early life undernutrition and later risk of obesity in select low- and middle-income countries.
This report provides a snapshot of activities among Feed the Future’s 19 focus countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the Caribbean in 2012-2013.
The July 2014 edition of the Feed the Future Newsletter features stories on how the initiative is working to improve nutrition through the U.S. President’s Initiative.
This double blind, randomized control trial in India demonstrated that double-fortified salt is an efficacious approach to improving iron status and should be further evaluated for effectiveness in the general population.
According to the authors, over 200,000 cases of severe acute malnutrition occur in Vietnam each year. Their research details the development and success of a locally-developed ‘Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food’ (RUTF), and its role in a broader program to fight acute malnutrition.
The authors of this extensive review argue that achieving food security in Uganda is an effective means of curtailing civil strife, violence, and insecurity.
SPRING has just completed a series of baseline national level interviews for the "Pathways to Better Nutrition" (PBN) longitudinal case study in Nepal, which kicks off field work for this two-year study.
The Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework delivers a set of evid
SPRING builds on international experiences in several sectors to design Bangladesh-specific interventions and innovations by targeting health and agricultural workers within the GOB and among nongovernmental organizations to reach communities and individuals (especially pregnant women and new…
This document is part of an occasional series produced by SPRING staff and consultants on topics of relevance to practitioners in global nutrition.
SPRING is collaborating with the United States Peace Corps’ Office of Program and Training Support, the West Africa Food Security Partnership (WAFSP), and selected Peace Corps countries to implement nutrition interventions in the West Africa sub-region.
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In December 2012, the SPRING project hosted an Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE) event entitled Strengthened and Sustainable Linkages among Agriculture, Economic Growth and Nutrition in Kampala, Uganda.
Every year during World Breastfeeding Week, SPRING/Bangladesh supports national and regional efforts to raise awareness about breastfeeding.
Every year during World Breastfeeding Week, SPRING/Bangladesh supports national and regional efforts to raise awareness about breastfeeding. Read more