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Drawing on household survey data from Nepal, this paper investigates the impact of women’s empowerment in agriculture and production diversity on dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes of mothers and children.
An analysis of 121 Demographic and Health Surveys found an increase in GDP per capita resulted in an insignificant decline in stunting. When researchers compared the changes in GDP to the changes in the number of wasting and underweight children, there was no correlation at all.
This blog by Prasun Kumar Das of LANSA describes Farming Systems for Nutrition (FSN), a new farming model that has been developed with the expressed purpose of improving nutrition. It is currently being tested in India.
Journalist and critic of the US nutrition architecture writes "Here’s another possibility: The 600,000 articles—along with several tens of thousands of diet books—are the noise generated by a dysfunctional research establishment.
According to a UN special rapporteur, a loss of agrobiodiversity, accelerated soil erosion, and pollution of fresh water from the overuse of chemical fertilizers resulting from the green revolution should be replaced by agroecology—a range of techniques that include intercropping, the use of manu
Malnutrition is thought to be responsible for 45 percent of deaths in children under five. Despite worldwide efforts to reach the Millennium Development Goal target of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger by 2015, 165 million children remain stunted and 870 million people are…
SPRING has developed a series of briefs that illustrate how evidence-based pathways and principles can strengthen agriculture and nutrition linkages under Feed the Future. Short vignettes from agricultural activities highlight how these concepts can be applied in
The TOPS Program team of technical specialists has undertaken a review of final evaluation reports from Food for Peace‐funded development food assistance projects (formerly referred to as Multi‐Year Assistance Projects or Development Assistance Projects) to identify p
ACF International has newly released 3 case studies based on ACF innovative nutrition-sensitive interventions, in Liberia, Guinea and Pakista that complete the 3 previously released in 2012.
ODI’s Future Diets includes a 100+ page data-rich report, as well as a set of infographics that trace how the changes in diet—more fat, more meat, more sugar, and bigger portions--have led to a looming health crisis.
This webinar provided an overview of the global malnutrition problem; the main approaches through which the agriculture sector can address malnutrition; some of the agriculture-related issues that can have a negative impact on nutrition; USAID programs and resources to addr
SPRING, TOPS, and USAID kicked off the first event in its webinar series, Women’s Empowerment and Men’s Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition, with a presentation by Anna Herforth, Independent Consultant, on the three interrelated gender pa
The Ag2Nut CoP followed up the conversation that began in February 2014 and focused on what is needed for global monitoring of access to adequate nutritious food.
A discussion on what is needed for global monitoring of adequate food, focused on the need for appropriate indicators of adequate nutritious food, as well as some current efforts to develop such indicators
This Phase I report describes a
Current analysis of maternal and child nutrition programs is often confined to looking at a few direct o
A Haitian woman carries fresh vegetables.Preventable public
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On February 18, 2014, the Ministry of Health (MOH) Nutrition Directorate in Haiti, with support from SPRING/Haiti, held a one-day meeting with 42 nutrition partners from 17 partner institutions, including USAID, to develop a multisectoral strategy to reduce undernutrition in Haiti.
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.