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Authors: Alexis D’Agostino1, Kristen Kappos1, Amanda Pomeroy1, Fred Werikhe2, Anthony Begumisa3, Margaret Kyenkya2
Manjila is the only earning member in her family, working as a maid, and has faced significant hardships to support her family. She was determined to make a better life for her family.
This academy aims to further conversations and research regarding the intersection of agriculture, health, and nutrition. View the academy’s webpage to join the academy, or view the video of the academy’s launch.
This Ag2Nut community call examined livestock’s role in the availability of diverse and nutritious foods. The webinar featured Dr.
Abstracts for the 2015 Integrated Nutrition Conference will be accepted through July 3, 2015. The conference will focus on the integration of nutrition-sensitive programs across multiple sectors such as agriculture, child development, health, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).
The 2015 MEAS Symposium reflected on MEAS project activities, and examined how to further strengthen extension systems. Event presentation topics include nutrition integration, and improvement of nutrition through the shifting of gender roles.
To improve nutrition through agricultural programs, it is paramount to understand local contexts. This webinar featured SPRING’s context assessment guide, online platform, and interactive tool.
Application of the value chain approach can be integral to achieving key nutrition outcomes. This event shared value chain project results, challenges, and successes, and outlined policy reforms to enhance nutritional status in Africa South of the Sahara.
This event examined lessons learned across agriculture, health, and nutrition research over the past five years.
This article features the role of agriculture and smallholder farmers in improving global nutrition outcomes.
This publication advocates for further investment in research and innovation to meet the challenges that populations face related to agriculture, food, health, and nutrition.
This toolkit serves as guidance in measuring progress towards achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs). The toolkit aims to facilitate multi-stakeholder collaboration to further improved nutrition outcomes.
This article features approaches to combat severe chronic malnutrition in Guatemala, some of which include agricultural practices. Other featured approaches include improved education, healthy pregnancies, and proper water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices.
Empowering smallholder farmers through access to mobile technology can further nutrition outcomes. This article examines the experience of female smallholder farmers in Tanzania and encourages the application of mobile technology to further develop agriculture and nutrition programming.
This blog post emphasizes that more data is necessary to illustrate the impact that agricultural programs have on nutritional outcomes. These data sets may be collected across agriculture, food systems, health, and nutrition programs, and should be collected across multiple levels.
This declaration documents the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ commitment to improving nutrition through its Broad Food Security and Nutrition Development Approach.
Multisectoral programmatic approaches can bring about improved nutritional outcomes. This article features Bangladesh as a promising example in achieving nutritional outcomes as the country combines approaches such as access to markets, economic growth, and enhanced agricultural practices.
Focusing on the United States, this book provides a framework to assess the multiple factors that impact the food system.
Oftentimes food quantity is prioritized over food quality. This article highlights the importance of food quality, and advocates for increased innovation and research to emphasize the importance of nutritious foods, and agriculture’s role in providing nutritious foods.
FFBS is aimed at increasing community nutrition through enhanced local smallholder farmer agricultural practices. Targeting community-based trainers, country office staff, and local NGO workers, this toolkit guides users through planning and completion of FFBS activities.