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This report presents new data measuring the gender gap in various aspects of agriculture in Africa. A particular focus on six countries— Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda—provides detailed analysis of the factors that account for this gap.
This series of eight country case studies (Brazil, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Thailand) synthesizes and analyzes national policies in the area of food and agriculture, including trade and related sectors using a value chain approach in selected countries a
According to Feed the Future’s third progress report, the initiative has reached nearly 7 million smallholder farmers and helped to save 12.5 million children from the threat of hunger, poverty, and malnutrition in just the last year alone.
USAID’s Nutrition Strategy embodies a multi-sectoral approach to address both direct and underlying causes of malnutrition. With this strategy, USAID aims to decrease chronic malnutrition, measured by stunting, by 20 percent through the U.S.
Looking especially at refined sugar, salt, and fats (saturated and unsaturated), this paper compares how consumption of these ‘product vectors’ are converging between lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income countries in the Asian context.
Animal-source foods are often promoted as key to improving nutrition for vulnerable populations– particularly for protein and iron. However, there is ongoing debate around the harm of zoonotic diseases associated with raising animals in shared family space.
This article brings together six case studies, of programs using local markets to advance global health technologies. One study focuses on a fortified rice product rolled out in Brazil (Ultra Rice), including an interesting perspective on the product’s 15-year history.
Do vegetable gardens have an impact on the health and well-being of People Living with HIV (PLHIV)? Between 2008 and 2011, a project in Zimbabwe led by Action Contre la Faim supported vegetable consumption through community gardens, analyzing consequent changes to dietary patterns of PLHIV.
Promoting Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) and Essential Hygiene Actions (EHA) has been a major component of SPRING’s work in Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh, absent or inconveniently located handwashing stations hinder the uptake of handwashing practices at the household level, which are important for preventing illnesses that affect nutritional status. In response, SPRING has introduced household "tippy taps" to rural Bangladesh.
In August 2013, SPRING and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) formally launched the Nigeria Community and Facility Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Packag
On May 22, 2014, USAID released the 2014-2025 Multi-sectoral Nutrition Strategy, a defining moment for the global nutrition community.
SPRING/Ghana aimed to reduce stunting by 20 percent in two regions—Northern Region and Upper East Region. Working in 15 districts within these two regions, SPRING/Ghana’s activities included anemia reduction, infant and young child nutrition; water, sanitation, and hygiene; aflatoxin reduction;…
SPRING’s work in the Kyrgyz Republic aims to reduce stunting through evidence-based interventions with a clear pathway to national scale-up. This will be achieved by improving nutrition-related behaviors at the household level while also building capacity at the national level in support of…
SPRING and its partners catalyze national-level dialogue around nutrition. Specifically, SPRING supports the secretariat of the Government-led IYCF technical working group, where the project is recognized as a great contributor with in-depth, technical nutrition knowledge.
SPRING’s work in the Sahel uses innovative social and behavior change communication (SBCC) approaches to improve nutrition at the household and community level in Burkina Faso and Niger. SPRING supports the Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel–Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER) Project, managed…
In late May of 2014, international leaders from the public health and private sectors gathered for the first ever Feed the Future Glob
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SPRING/Nigeria organized a five-day facility infant and young child feeding (F-IYCF) training to strengthen the capacity of health workers in secondary and tertiary health facilities in Otukpo, Benue State.