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The “Breastfeeding is a Source of Child Health” event took place in Tash Kumyr on Thursday September 22, 2016 with about 110 people in attendance.
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Health Promotion Unit of Tash Kumyr town held an event on the importance of breastfeeding.Read more
Coinciding with the arrival of World Breastfeeding Week, the Nigerian government launched an Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) campaign, which involved the release of the
SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Jalal Abad Mayor's Office held a 5K run promoting exercise, nutrition, and healthy children.Read more
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing food and nutrition security.
SPRING Director Carolyn Hart and Director of Food Security and Nutrition Heather Danton Discuss Connections Between Food Self-Sufficiency and Local Food Systems at Annual USDA/USAID ConferenceSPRING joined a diverse gathering of nutrition and food security experts at the annual Inter
Funded by USAID, SPRING/Ghana’s scaling up of the UNICEF infant and young child feeding (IYCF) training package in 15 districts in northern Ghana encourages early initiation of breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months, and continued breastfeeding for the first two years.
Successful integration of nutrition interventions into large-scale development programmes from nutrition-relevant sectors, such as agriculture, can address critical underlying determinants of undernutrition and enhance the coverage and effectiveness of on-going nutrition-specific activities.…
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CORE Group’s Global Health Practitioner Conference is a place where health advocates come together to collaborate, discuss ideas, and build partnerships to improve life-saving programs. This fall’s themes included adolescent health and nutrition.
SPRING’s District Assessment Tool for Anemia (DATA) increases awareness of anemia and helps districts take action on this prevalent problem.
Starting on 15 September 2016, SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic hosted a two-day Media and Messenger Training in Bishkek for 32 members of national media in the Kyrgyz Republic.
In partnership with the Ministry of Health’s Republican Center for Health Promotion, SPRING trained 32 members of national media on how to better promote nutrition during a two-day Media and Messenger Training in Bishkek.
SPRING joined a diverse gathering of nutrition and food security experts at the annual International Food Assistance and Security Conference hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development and U.S. Department of Agriculture in Des Moines, Iowa, October 10-11, 2016.
During this webinar, the inaugural round of fellows from the IMMANA program highlighted their research on developing new methodological approaches to guide agricultural interventions for nutrition improvement.
This special event convened global leaders to discuss how to sustain and accelerate progress in ending hunger and undernutrition by 2025.
Challenges remain in connecting market-led livestock interventions to animal source foods (ASF) consumption in producer and rural households.
This webinar reviews technical information regarding different packaging and distribution options for soy dairy enterprises, including the use of glass versus plastic bottles, different refrigeration options, bottle sealing, pasteurization, and same day distribution scenarios.
This online course illustrates the linkages between agriculture, food systems, and nutrition. Starting from two realistic scenarios, the course describes benefits and opportunities for integrating nutrition into food system policies, investments, and programs.
The Paris Agreement, adopted in December 2015, represents a new beginning in the global effort to stabilize the climate before it is too late.