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The 2015 Fortification Assessment Coverage Tool found that 92 percent of households in Uganda consume maize flour. For school-going children, especially those in boarding school, maize flour is a staple food, served three meals per day for six days each week.
SPRING/Uganda applies a multi-sectoral approach to reduce stunting and anemia.
Nearly 100 people attended SPRING/Uganda’s close out and legacy event to celebrate the project’s five-year journey to achieve results in nutrition.
The practical application of nutrition-sensitive agriculture continues to be a challenge for development practitioners all over the world. To gain a better understanding of how agriculture interventions can contribute to improved nutrition, USAID’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project,…
On November 9th, 2017, SPRING/Uganda shared results of our pilot project for the first time with government and private sector representatives from the micronutrient
SPRING/Uganda presented on the current status of maize milling nationwide and the way forward for millers who would like to fortify during a dialogue and dissemination event attended by more than 40 stakeholders.
SPRING/Uganda presented on the current status of maize milling nationwide and the way forward for millers who would like to fortify during a dialogue and dissemination event attended by more than 40 stakeholders.
As part of Sierra Leone’s efforts to build a multisectoral platform to address anemia, SPRING has been providing support to draft the Sierra Leone National Multi-Sectoral Strategy to Prevent and Control Anemia.
One of the things we work on in our Community of Practice is increasing availability of nutritious food for all. Food loss and waste is a major drain on the availability of nutritious food, worldwide - particularly because it affects perishable, nutrient-dense foods the most. Curbing food loss and…
In this blog, Johanna Wong, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, shares research findings from Timor-Leste about the promoters and inhibitors of animal source food consumption in rural households.
The WEIA tool, launched in 2012, has now been rolled-out in 19 Feed the Future focus countries.
This event presented findings from a recent report highlighting a randomized controlled trial targeting young children in the highlands of Ecuador, which provided eggs as part of a complementary feeding diet.
IFPRI’s recent seminar delved into resilience in food production systems in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement, and the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference.
The Symposium, held in Bangkok in October 2017, sought to enhance agriculture and food systems' visibility, create policy and program options, promote sustainable diets, and build partnerships through taking stock of evidence on transformational change in food systems toward sustainability, and t
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition in partnership with the Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy jointly hosted the 5th Annual Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition (Nutrition Innovation Lab) Agriculture-Nutrition Scientific Symposium, and the 2nd Agriculture, Nut
Filling a need to provide empirical evidence on agriculture’s contribution to nutrition, IFPRI’s discussion paper reviews recent evidence (since 2014), including findings from impact evaluations of a variety of NSA programs that document linkages between agriculture, women’s empowerment, and nutr