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This blog describes how the addition of nutrition targets to the results framework of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) clarified its role in nutrition programming.
This news radio clip and associated article covers the FAO Africa Regional Nutrition Conference in Accra, which includes a speech by Dr. Anna Lartey, Director of the Nutrition Division of FAO. Dr.
This article explores the growth in biofortification to address hidden hunger and announces the launch the special online series Future Fortified.
This report reviews 102 health and multi-sectoral programs that integrate family planning with nutrition and food security interventions. Lessons learned and promising program practices for integration are included.
This brief links business environments with nutrition and explores value chain approaches through analyzing their benefits to the food system.
Peace Corps volunteers are uniquely placed to promote changes in agricultural and nutrition practices due to their placement in “last-mile” communities, as well as the relationships within the communities that they serve.
This collection of papers moves agriculture and health research towards markets and food systems, and beyond household production.
This special issue systematically and empirically tests whether a relationship exists between agricultural production and nutrition.
On June 18, 2013, SPRING signed an updated memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) in Bangladesh to achieve the mutual goal of improving the nutritional status of Bangladeshi women and children.
In October 2014, Parvin, then a lactating mother, enrolled in one of the Farmer Nutrition Schools (FNS) organized by the USAID SPRING project. She has never missed an FNS session. In addition to completing lessons on vegetable gardening, she learned about the importance of continued breastfeeding…
The USAID Acting Administrator visited a SPRING/Bangladesh Farmer Nutrition School as part of a short VIP tour of Khulna.Read more
In August, The Acting Administrator for USAID, Mr. Alfonso E.
Authors: Nancy Adero, Program Officer, Micronutrients and Anemia, SPRINGCo-Authors: Amanda Pomeroy-Stevens, Lidan Du, Alexis D’Agostino, Daniel Lukwago, Hannah Foehringer Merchant, Abel Muzoora, Sascha Lamstein, Ezekiel Mupere, Manohar Shenoy, SPRING
Throughout its global programming, SPRING is harnessing the power of innovative community media to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and hygiene practices.
On September 14-15, three SPRING staff presented at the Catholic Relief Services' 2015 Integrated Nutrition Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, contributing to the international dialogue around integrat
This brief is part a series of "interim" technical briefs, culminating in a final two-year study report in 2016.
In July, the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Uganda and SPRING/Uganda hosted a high-level delegation from Ethiopia to learn more about Uganda’s experience implementing mandatory food fortification.
In Uganda, SPRING joined other nutrition stakeholders in the country to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) from 1st -7th August 2015. The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) started WBW in 1992 with the vision of a world where breastfeeding is the cultural norm.
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) called for global action to support women to join breastfeeding and work.Read more
Sahoura asks her neighbor, Mariama, why her children are less healthy than Mariama’s, even though Sahoura practices the 1000 days behaviors. Mariama explains that it is important for everyone to wash their hands with soap at critical times during the day to prevent infections.