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The fourth and final MSN-GLEE was held in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2016 and was attended by USAID Mission staff and other U.S. Government staff, host country government partners, implementing partners, and other experts working in this area.
In partnership with USAID's Bureau for Food Security and Bureau for Global Health, SPRING hosted the Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy Global Learning & Evidence Exchange (MSN-GLEE) conference in Bangkok, Thailand.
Designing and disseminating technologies through Agricultural Extension Services in a gender-responsive and nutrition-sensitive way can help extend the benefits of technologies like increased productivity, income, and food availability to both men and women.
This year’s symposium focused on approaches to improving agricultural production, nutrition governance, the role of home food production on consumption, influences of mycotoxins on food availability and nutritional status, and integrated approaches to improving nutritional status.
The nutrition and climate change communities came together in this special session following the 6th Global Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Workshop in Montpellier, France.
This resource outlines intervention design, impact evaluation, and the approach to form partnerships to expand the practice of household gardens.
In these short videos, World Bank experts describe how they integrated nutrition-sensitive agriculture activities into their work.
The second edition of the Sustainable Nutrition Manual has been released after endorsement by Malawi’s Agriculture Technology Clearing Committee (ATCC).
This book, available for download, brings together stories about improving nutrition from the past five decades to provide insight into what works in nutrition, what does not, and the factors that contribute to success.
In light of the Nutrition for Growth Summit (N4GII) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on August 4th, 2016, this brief provides information and advice to help policymakers invest in effective policies to reduce all forms of malnutrition.
On June 24-28, 2013, 22 health workers from six hospitals convened in Petit Goave, Haiti for a training of trainers (TOT) led by SPRING/Haiti and the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de la Population (MSPP).
This article features one community’s story of an innovative, community-focused approach to tackling malnutrition in rural Bangladesh through its Farmer Nutrition School pioneered by SPRING/Bangladesh.
This study compared models of the most nutritious version of a commonly consumed diet given locally available foods (“common diet”) in 3 agroecological zones of Nepal with the least expensive possible diet meeting micronutrient needs (“optimal diet”).
Positive monitoring reports and feedback from Ghana indicate that the School Meals Planner Package tool can be adapted for other countries to meet context-specific needs.
Transfers of food-producing livestock encourage direct consumption of such foods, while transfer of other livestock assets (draft cattle) encourages non-food expenditures by the beneficiaries. These findings suggest an opportunity to influence behavior toward food.
Located in the Sahel, Niger is characterized by harsh climate conditions that contribute to stru
Photo credit: Marjolein Moreaux, SPRINGIn 2013, the USAID Global Health Bureau ask
On August 18, 2016, SPRING/Bangladesh participated in a roundtable discussion entitled “Protecting and Promoting Breastfeeding: Challenges and Opportunities to Implement the Breast Milk Substitute
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Haemoglobin Colour Scale serves as an affordable, quantitative tool for diagnosing anemia as an alternative to clinical methods.
This study examined the effects of screening for anemia during well baby clinic visits and providing iron supplementation to anemic children in low-resource settings in the Dominican Republic.