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Working with USAID and the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), SPRING is mobilizing global thought leaders to identify and support the scale-up of effective policies and programs enabling families to make better nutrition decisions.
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.
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Empowering Women in Agriculture: Strengthening Production and Dietary Diversity to Improve Nutrition
SPRING, TOPS, and USAID hosted the second of a three-part webinar series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition. Hazel Malapit, a Research Coordinator in IFPRI's Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, discussed her recent paper Women…
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.
This article appeared in a series of publications examining social, economic, and demographic roles of women in Nicaragua, and echoes many of the same questions that face us today regarding links between income and nutrition.
Responding to global grabs for patents on agricultural seeds, the University of Wisconsin has launched the Open Source Seed Initiative, aiming to keep certain seed varietals under a common-use license – similar to the ones used by certain open-source software or music formats.
The Global Forum is hosting an online discussion through May 8th, that follows on to a joint water-sharing strategy developed among countries in the Aral Sea Basin.
The Global Forum is hosting an online discussion through May 6th, in order to gather country examples of ‘Care Farming’ that can be analyzed by FAO and its partners to develop programming tools. Contribute your thoughts and experience, in English, French, or Spanish.
On March 23, 2014, the Ag2Nut Community of Practice and Food Security Information Network (FSIN) continued its 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 c
WASHPlus The March 2014 edition of the WASH/Nutrition Literature Update included a wide range of articles, with WASH/nutrition studies focused on Bangladesh, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nepal, and more.
See all resources from the 2014 Feed the Future Innovation Lab Council Partners Workshop, held March 10-11 in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Workshop centered on the theme of “Scaling Up Agricultural Research and Technologies and Designing Research for Improved Nutritional Outcomes”.
Empowering Women in Agriculture: Strengthening Production and Dietary Diversity to Improve Nutrition
Access event resources from the second SPRING, TOPS, and USAID webinar in a three-part series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition.
A collaborative report that identifies factors responsible for low-productivity among female-managed farms in Africa, with a particular focus on Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda.
This brief recognizes the need and the opportunities for fathers to play a positive role in domestic issues, child health, and overall development. It includes short vignettes of existing programs working to integrate men, along with a list of resources to assist programs in engaging fathers.
This 2-volume report by the IPCC provides a global update on the causes and impacts of climate change. Among other key perspectives, Section 7 deals with food security, and notes impacts on both aquatic and land-based food sources.
To inform the post-2015 agenda, the Gates Foundation has produced a 12-page document outlining its rationale to include sustainable agriculture, food security, and nutrition. Six targets—such as 50% reduction in stunting by 2030—are proposed.
This report examines the relationship between agriculture and nutrition in developing countries, focusing on how nutrition is currently prioritised within agricultural policy frameworks, from the global to the district level.
This study looked at nutrient composition of complementary foods based on orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP), cream-fleshed sweet potato (CFSP), maize–soybean– groundnut (Weanimix), and a proprietary wheat-based infant cereal (Nestlé Cerelac).