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What is nutrition-sensitive agriculture? Agriculture is nutrition-sensitive when it addresses the underlying causes of malnutrition. SPRING supports and promotes nutrition-sensitive agriculture with global evidence and guidance, design and monitoring tools, and lessons from field experience.
In September 2013, SPRING delegates will attend the IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition (ICN 2013)—one of the most prestigious international nutrition conferences that brings together more than 5,000 nutrition-related specialists—and highlight the work and results from SPRING
Miriam's leadership on breastfeeding was brilliant, tireless, and effective. The global health and nutrition community will miss her terribly.
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. In this video, a woman demonstrates how an infant should latch on when breastfeeding.
SPRING/Ghana developed a series of videos to facilitate counseling for infant and young child feeding. This video demonstrates how to make enriched mashed yam for feeding children 6-8 months old.
This blog and accompanying guide, Introduction to Systems Thinking, and animation have been produced by Oxfam to demystify systems thin
Created to improve the coordination of national health system planning efforts, this website provides a “country-by-country overview of the national planning, health programmatic and project cycles, together with information on donor involvement and technical support, for the 195 Member States of
Grounded in the belief that systems thinking is a new frontier with significant potential for strengthening health systems and building capacity, Systems Thinking for Capacity in Health (ST4C Health) seeks bring together health professionals, disseminate systems thinking ideas and methods, and ul
The interaction between the public and private sector, reliance on donor funds, and extensive government relations are just a few of the challenges faced when developing health systems in these countries. Often there is a disconnect, with each sector lacking understanding on how the others work.
SPRING's PBN case studies provide new evidence of the importance of good nutrition to both human and economic development and the critical role good governance and policy play in creating momentum for nutrition.
Site and Life Magazine features a focus on systems, and the linkages between agriculture and health in this issue.
Climate-smart agriculture interventions must take a “systems approach” in order to address a broad spectrum of issues.
This toolkit was created to guide civil servants and parliamentary staff through an interdisciplinary approach to evidence informed policymaking. It includes four modules: Introduction to Evidence-Informed Policy Making, A Complete Search Strategy, Assessing Evidence, and Communicating Evidence.
A growing body of evidence shows strong connections between poor sanitation and stunting, and provides a basis for this paper’s focus on achieving better nutrition outcomes from both the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) perspective and the nutrition perspective.
This blog provides a user-friendly related explanation of systems map and how they can be used. The author explains that for readers who are not visual learners, there are difference ways to present a systems map.
The amount was pledged at the 2013 London Summit is insufficient to achieve four of the six WHA targets, according to the authors of this article. Funding that has been pledged has often been for nutrition-sensitive interventions that only indirectly affect nutritional status.
In order to achieve four out of the six Sustainable Development Goals, an additional $7 billion each year is needed on top of current levels of spending.
A common fallacy is that obesity is almost exclusively caused by individual choices. While personal choice is certainly a factor, it is not the most significant one.
Unifying the aspirations of the nutrition and sustainable agriculture communities presents a unique opportunity to align the goals of these sectors in a common cause.