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This SPRING regional profile provides an overview of early life nutrition status and later life nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases (N-RNCDs) in South and
This webinar highlighted a recent SPRING qualitative study conducted in Burkina Faso, which examined the perspective of different stakeholders working in a nutrition-focused homestead food production project run by Helen Keller International.
Global Nutrition EffortsAround the world, some two billion people live on a diet lacking the nutrients needed to live
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Photo credit: Peace CorpsSome two billion people around the world consu
Photo credit: Agnes Guyon, JSISome two billion people around the wo
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This study from September 2013 analyzed policy options toward promoting nutrient-dense foods to reduce undernutrition in Ghana. Markets have the potential to deliver these but are inhibited by market failures such as imperfect information, bounded rationality, and uncertainty.
During the December Ag2Nut Community Call, FAO’s Nutrition Division Director, Anna Lartey, and WHO Director of Nutrition for Health and Development Francesco Branca joined to discuss outcomes of the ICN2.
USAID/Senegal’s Projet Croissance Economique (PCE), or Economic Growth Project, is a Feed the Future initiative that aims to boost the incomes of smallholder farmers engaged in Senegal’s rice, maize, and millet value chains.
This seminar explored how the need to build resilience to economic, environmental and political shocks in the developing world is intrinsically connected to investment in nutrition and food security.
This webinar explored USAID’s perspective on nutrition-sensitive programming and pathways that show how nutrition-sensitive interventions can directly impact food security.Richard Greene of the Bureau for Food Security shared a draft guidance document that will form the basis
Citing recent gains in Africa’s per capita income equaling that of the rest of the world, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt examines rising economic tides through the lens of food.
This blog by Nitya Rao from Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) examines gender dynamics and the need for better data to understand how gender can contribute to better nutrition through agriculture.
A new interactive online tool is now available to guide stakeholders in deciding where, and in which biofortified crops, to invest. The Biofortification Priority Index (BPI) focuses on three micronutrients—iron, vitamin A, and zinc—deemed among the most limiting in diets worldwide.
This 300-plus page book provides a comprehensive look at nutrition security through community agriculture.
USAID’s Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) project has developed a framework that helps development practitioners understand market systems and offers guidance on interventions to increase women’s leadership and participation.
Based on experience from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, and Central Africa Republic, this report describes the adoption of participatory extension such as the Farmer Field School (FFS) approach in Eastern and Central Africa.
Patrick Webb highlights recent reports that focus on the nutrient, human, and nutrient digestive cycles that are critical for positive nutrition outcomes.