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In 2017, the United Nations World Food Program published a report on a five-country study on how WFP’s Food Assistance for Assets (FFA) work can contribute to empowering women and improving their nutrition.
Convened annually by the Chicago Council’s Global Agricultural Development Initiative, the symposium on global agriculture and food security provides a platform for discussion about the US government and international community’s progress on addressing the problem of food insecurity.
This document summarizes the online discussion Sustainable farming systems for food and nutrition security held in the FSN Forum in October-November 2017.
This Key Facts sheet is the first in a series that IFPRI will be producing based on the third and fourth Integrated Household Surveys (IHS).
IFPRI's flagship report reviews the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions of 2017, and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2018 at the global and regional levels.
This synthesis document accompanies three case studies carried out by ENN in 2017 in Senegal, Nepal, and Kenya to document nutrition-sensitive and multi-sector program experiences with a focus on the sub-national level.
Although the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Malawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately improved food security and nutrition outcomes.
Agricultural interventions may fail to improve nutritional outcomes if they do not take account of time constraints, particularly of rural women who spend a considerable portion of their time in agriculture.
Nutrition‐sensitive interventions to improve overall diet quality are increasingly needed to improve maternal and child health.
As the need to integrate nutrition outcomes into our food systems becomes ever more evident, valuing and measuring nutritional quality of the outputs of agricultural production is essential to make agriculture nutrition sensitive.
Vegetable production provides a promising economic opportunity for reducing rural poverty and unemployment in low-income countries and cultivates the world’s most affordable source of vitamins and minerals needed for good health.
Using a wide berth of evidence, this paper reviews available cross-disciplinary evidence on how culture affects food security in terms of availability, access and choice, utilization, and stability.
To fight the double burden of malnutrition and achieve SGD2, how do we deliver more nutritious foods to populations? This paper argues that we need to improve food systems by improving value chains for micronutrient-rich foods.
This is Session One of seven included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
This is Session Two of seven that are included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
This is Session Three of seven in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
This is Session Four of seven that are included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
This is Session Five of seven that are included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
This is Session Six of seven that are included in the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package.
SPRING is proud to be a conference sponsor for the 2018 SBC Summit in Bali, Indonesia from April 16-20, 2018.