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This report focuses on the ways that food and agriculture policies can foster good nutrition.
This report takes a unique, visual approach to discuss the multi-sectoral challenges associated with rising obesity and poor nutrition in the UK. Obesity is a very complex problem that involves many factors and, consequently, there is no single fix.
This paper advocates for “health systems analysis” (HSA) as a methodology that should be practiced when designing policies and programs for health system strengthening.
This paper refutes the assertion in the previous paper, Multi-sectoral nutrition planning: a post-mortem,
This paper describes the rise and fall of multi-sectoral nutrition planning in the 1970s. The idea was that nutritional improvement to match resources to need should be integrated into broader development planning, not done separately once development planning was underway.
This report discusses science- and policy-related conceptual frameworks for health equity.
The authors of this paper used bibliographic searches, a modified Delphi technique, focus groups, and interviews with experts to identify existing models of agriculture, food, nutrition, health, and environmental systems.
This paper presents the NOURISHING framework of food policies to promote healthy diets and uses the framework to summarize the policy actions taken by countries who attended a June 2013 meeting in Bellagio, Italy on the progress of obesity prevention efforts in low and middle income countries.
At 57 years old, Bibiana is a seasoned Village Health Team member (VHT). She has served her community for over 30 years. She is a reputable “village doctor” and the first person whose opinion new mothers seek on how to look after their newborn babies.
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As part of SPRING’s work in Nigeria, the project aims to reduce maternal and child undernutrition and improve HIV-free survival of infants and young children. In particular, SPRING/Nigeria is contributing to improved nutrition care practices and access to quality services through the roll out of…
Priscilla received a five-day training on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, intended to create a cadre of coaches at the local government area level. The community-based IYCF (C-IYCF) training is aimed at empowering individuals to provide caregivers with the relevant information and…
Geoff Tansey, an independent writer and consultant has put together a series of “talks” around various aspects of food systems and their links to human beings and the environment.
The November 2014 AgNut Community of Practice call featured a report out on the first-ever agriculture-nutrition track at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2014, held in October 2014 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
SPRING and the Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services (MEAS) project co-hosted a two-part webinar series exploring efforts to integrate activities promoting nutrition into agriculture extension programming in Malawi and Ethiopia.
During the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) last month, FAO and WHO prepared to assist nations in addressing the massive global burden of malnutrition.
This is the policy brief based on the more extensive Technical Note, which calls for urgent action and a more prominent role for nutrition across the SDGs.
Patrick Webb with Tufts University describes the many pathways by which nutrition can support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and how the SDGs in turn can also benefit nutrition.
Nutrition and Food in Numbers may be a pocket-sized reference book, but it is filled with a large and diverse amount of nutrition-related data from all over the world. It includes indicators on the various connections between nutrition, health, and the environment.
In preparation for the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), FAO pulled together a collection of tools and tips to help advocates inform and engage the public in nutrition-related activities.