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Some 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger caused by infections and diets lacking in essential micronutrients, such as, vitamin A, iron, and zinc. This two page brief explores how biofortification of staple grains can increase dietary diversity.
Monotonous diets fail to provide sufficient micronutrients. Consequently, dietary diversity is crucial for vulnerable groups, in particular women of reproductive age.
Inequality determines who eats and what they eat—this in turn affects peoples’ resilience in the face of climate change and other environmental factors.
This article reviews various theory of change models for agriculture and nutrition interventions and provides an analysis of their applicability. Evidence-based theories of change are discussed and the need for adapting a theory of change for a particular purpose are discussed.
Community Video for Nutrition Guide Highlights Experience Using an Innovative Community-led Video Approach from Digital Green and the SPRING Project
2015 is the International Year of Soils, in recognition of the fundamental role our soils play in delivering ecosystem services that enable life on Earth.
Authors: Heather Danton, Director, Food Security and Nutrition; Alyssa Klein, Food Security and Nutrition Specialist, SPRINGIntroduction: The effect of agriculture on nutrition is multifaceted. Agriculture—
The 2014 Global Nutrition Report emphasized the need for sufficient financial resources for nutrition and pointed out the importance of countries being able to t
SPRING provided training in infant and young child feeding to an existing network of local community activists to address a knowledge gap in Kyrgyzstan about the importance of exclusive breastfeeding.
SPRING/Nigeria collaborated with Nigeria’s Ministry of Health (MOH), Ministry of Women’s Affairs (MOWA), and the USAID-funded STEER project to roll out the community infant and young child feeding (C-IYCF) training package. This set of training guides, counseling materials, and take-home brochures…
Recognizing the need for better feeding practices in Utagban, two USAID-funded projects are collaborating to provide nutrition training in the community.SPRING used UNICEF and World Health Organization recommendations to create a nationally-approved package of training materials on community-based…
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The Prime Minister of Uganda, Rt. Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, launched Uganda’s Nutrition Advocacy and Communication (NA&C) Strategy during the 6th edition of the Africa Day for Food and Nutrition Security held at Munyonyo Resort Hotel in Kampala.
SPRING’s formative research to understand factors affecting household-level food purchase and production decisions in Guatemala’s Western Highlands provi
SPRING is partnering with USAID’s Bureau for Food Security to understand how Feed the Future projects can achieve nutrition results from agricultural investments.
The INGENAES project endeavors to build the capacity of both public and private institutions engaged in agriculture extension to provide gender-responsive and nutrition-sensitive advising services to smallholder farmers, and to contribute to the evidence base by documenting experiences.
SPRING recently conducted a nutrition assessment in Guinea to contribute to post Ebola virus disease (EVD) response efforts.
In response to the Guinea Ebola outbreak, SPRING conducted a nutrition assessment to provide insights into nutrition status.Read more
To contribute to post Ebola outbreak response efforts, SPRING recently accompanied ACDI/VOCA’s Leveraging Economic Oppo
In response to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, SPRING accompanied LEO to provide a nutrition lens for its value chain assessment fieldwork.