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Concentrated within West Africa and the Sahel, this report shares strategies for multisectoral integration of nutrition. The report includes both a review of programs and an outline for related data collection from similar programs.
Over the next six years, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase its investments in nutrition programs to $776 million.
This interactive self-training tool is designed to deepen users’ understanding of the multisectoral causes of malnutrition and equip learners with broader participatory facilitation skills. FAO designed this tool for practitioners and partners working across development sectors.
This report reviews two Feed the Future projects in Guatemala and emphasizes the importance of increasing the nutrition sensitivity across all stages of value chains. The report maps out the application of this nutrition sensitivity within the context of two projects in Guatemala.
Last month, FAO released The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015, which listed agricultural productivity growth, economic growth, markets, and social protection as key factors to achieving food security and nutrition goals.
This study in northern Mozambique examines biofortification’s effect on reducing vitamin A deficiency in children under age five and women of reproductive age.
In this book chapter, SPRING authors present the current understanding of linkages between agriculture and nutrition, and the Feed the Future initiative’s efforts to strengthen the nutritional impact of agriculture and economic growth activities.
A program involving agriculture, nutrition, and health behavior change communication (BCC) is shown to improve child health and nutrition outcomes.
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For this study, SPRING examined the relationship between the food environment and nutrition. The food environment encompasses availability, affordability, convenience, and desirability of various foods. The effect of income on dietary consumption is always modified by the food environment. Many…
SPRING will present its work on nutrition financing at two major international conferences in July 2015. For the last several years, SPRING has worked to develop more accurate estimates of national and sub-national multisectoral nutrition funding commitments in Uganda and Nepal.
The June 2015 issue of the journal Food Security includes a special section: "Strengthening the links between nutrition and health outcomes and agricultural research." This collection of papers advances the boundaries of the field of agri-health research beyond farming households, and toward…
Improving the collection and use of information is a priority for SPRING. Data from a variety of sectors (agriculture, finance, education, health, etc.) play an important role in improving nutritional outcomes for women and children. To achieve our goal, we gather evidence on the best ways to fill…
Despite the fact that there is global consensus on actions essential to address undernutrition, in many countries, the workforce needed to promote those actions is insufficient. SPRING works to strengthen human resources for nutrition with the ultimate goal of increasing the number of formally-…
The United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) is the food and nutrition policy harmonization forum of the United Nations. The mandate of the UNSCN is to promote cooperation among UN agencies and partner organizations in support of community, national, regional, and inter
The Multisectoral Anemia Task Force Secretariat comprises the CORE Group, FANTA, MCHIP, and SPRING, as well as the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative and USAID’s Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program, Neglected Tropical Diseases program, and Food for Peace office.
The Accelerated Reduction Effort on Anaemia (AREA) Community of Practice (COP), facilitated by the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN) and moderated by the U.S. Agency for International Development's (USAID’s) SPRING project, was launched in June 2015.
As part of a series of online question-and-answer sessions that pose questions to leading experts in the areas of nutrition and food security, The Guardian hosted a live chat to answer the question, “how can we stop neglecting girls' nutrition?” Held with a panel of leading nutrition experts and
Point-of-use fortification is increasingly being introduced and scaled up. The United Nations Children’s Fund, the U.S.
The 68th World Health Assembly (WHA) was held in Geneva, Switzerland, bringing together World Health Organization Member States to focus on key milestones for nutrition toward achieving the WHA 2025 Global Targets.