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Over the past several years, FAO has supported projects in Malawi and Cambodia to improve childhood nutrition through agriculture and nutrition education for complementary feeding. Many of these interventions involved pulses.
This facilitator’s guide has been prepared for public, private, and NGO extension providers to strengthen their capacity to address gender in a transformative manner and to integrate nutrition sensitivity in designing and facilitating workshops and trainings for men and women farmers.
The Program Documentation Guide helps country teams assess the current status of an intervention’s implementation, management and results, and streamline the reporting of these characteristics to multiple external partners.
Health Communication Capacity Collaborative’s SBCC Implementation Kit (I-Kit), includes a step by step approach to integrate gender into an existing SBCC strategy or marketing kit.
This report examines the evolution of the policy debates on nutrition and agriculture from India’s Independence to the present in order to better understand the roots for the weak links between agriculture and nutrition in contemporary India.
This article aims to increase the evidence base around the benefits of integrated agriculture and nutrition programs for children’s health and nutrition outcomes.
After reviewing 42 evaluations of agricultural interventions for improved maternal and child nutrition, the authors of this article identify three intervention typologies – enhancement, diversification, and substitution – that reflect the impacts of interventions on household livelihoods and patt
This technical brief reviews the scientific rationale for postpartum supplementation and examines the available evidence on whether or not this intervention can improve the nutritional status, breast milk quality, and functional health outcomes in mothers and children.
Join us on May 26th to learn about different Mission-level approaches to promoting multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration to support nutrition outcomes and what we’ve learned throughout the process.
The regions in the north of Ghana have a high prevalence of anemia among children under five, and pregnant and non-pregnant women of reproductive age.
When evaluating development interventions for their contributions to sustained development, it is essential to monitor how systems change over time.
In this blog, a USAID Development Specialist discusses the organization’s shift in analytical framework from the value chain to the market system.
This article makes the case for country-owned programs with sound leadership and resource management; even in variable financial, political, and environmental circumstances.
USAID's Office of Health Systems released this landmark report which presents evidence linking health systems strengthening (HSS) interventions to measurable impacts on health outcomes for the first time.
The international community has a target to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. This article puts forth 14 recommendations to achieve this goal.
Because the obesity epidemic is the result of a complex system of factors, addressing it requires a systems approach. Factors within the realms of behavior, environment, policy, economics, physiology, and culture have all been identified as contributors to obesity.
Uganda has well documented the problem of micronutrient deficiencies. To help combat this issue, Mukwano Oil Industries and BIDCO Uganda Limited have been fortifying oil with vitamin A since 2004.
A reliable estimate of nutrition spending is critical for effective planning to address the interrelated causes of undernutrition.
In recent years, the concept of "scaling up nutrition" has become routinely espoused within the nutrition community. However, with such proliferation, there is a need for greater coherence and consistency with regard to the scope, purpose, and essential processes of scaling-up.