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This event featured the CARE Pathways Program’s gender integration framework, and focused on how agriculture programs can apply the framework within their own projects.
Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agriculture Extension Services (INGENAES) is a global initiative funded by USAID through Feed the Future.
The 2015 Global Food Security Symposium focused on leveraging food systems for improved health outcomes. This event examined global malnutrition and how food systems can affect improved nutrition around the world.
This interview features a 4 minute interview with Dr. Hazel Malapit, A4NH’s Gender Research Coordinator, discussing why women’s time is an important pathway between agriculture and nutrition.
This working paper emphasizes the necessity of incorporating a systems lens when approaching nutrition programming. The paper defines a systems approach within the context of nutrition programs, examining the intersection of food, health, and care in nutrition outcomes.
This nutrition program design tool includes a reference guide and a workbook to assist program design teams in their creation of strategies to incorporate community-based approaches to nutrition practices.
This policy brief focuses on the roles various cross-sectoral actors can play in combatting micronutrient malnutrition. Approaches to improve nutrition status include targeting agricultural inputs, household consumption, and value chains.
The Chicago Council is calling on U.S. leadership to leverage agriculture for nutrition in its report that describes nutrition as an integral component of achieving global food security.
Günter Hemrich, a Senior Strategy and Planning Officer with the FAO, continues discussions around the link between food systems and nutrition prompted by the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2).
This blog from the Gender-Nutrition Idea Exchange highlights the impacts gender participation have on nutrition-related decision making, food safety and risk mitigation
Agroecology applies ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems, potentially strengthening resilience among smallholder farmers and their agroecosystems.
The paper emphasizes the necessity of a world food system and outlines a collaborative agenda for associated program implementers and partners to achieve it within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
This interview with Acting Assistant to the Administrator, USAID Bureau for Food Security, Richard Greene discusses why the US Government is working on global nutrition, what Feed the Future is doing differently, and how the Feed the Future initiative, the Global Health Initiative and USAID’s Foo
Analyzing data collected from a 2012 baseline data of the Feed the Future population-based survey in Ghana and the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index, this article examines the relation between women’s empowerment in agriculture and the nutritional status of women and children.
Health care workers practice using counseling cards during training.
Financing is a key piece of any effort to improve nutrition at scale.
SPRING has adapted guidance from several sources to develop a methodology for extracting nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive funding data from donor and government budget documents.
On April 5, 2015, SPRING welcomed a USAID delegation—led by Jonathan Stivers, Assistant Administrator of USAID, and Michael Green, Mission Director, and including representatives from USAID’s Country Office and offices of Economic Development, Health, and Education—to the Oblast Merged Hospital M
Since 2010, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) and a scientific committee led by a small group of researchers (Tufts University, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, World Food Program) and technical experts have collaborated to develop a method to analyse the complex, dynamic,…
The Better Data for Nutrition webinar series draws on SPRING's team of nutrition, agriculture, and behavior change experts to share and discuss tools and solutions to address data gaps and make better use of data for improved nutrition outcomes.