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On April 25, 2017, SPRING/Senegal recognized World Malaria Day with local partner l’Association pour la promotion de la femme sénégalese [Association for the promotion of Senegalese Women] (APROFES) and Plan International,
In April 2017, SPRING/Kyrgyz Republic and the Kyrgyz tele-radio company, Tumar, organized seven free concerts in seven townships—Jalalabad, Tash-Kumyr, Kara-Kul, Kochkor-Ata, Mailuu-Suu, Shamaldy-Sai, and Naryn—to raise awa
USAID's Bureau for Global Health, SPRING, and MCSP co-chaired the Multi-Sectoral Anemia Task Force meeting in March, 2017.
This poster was prested by Francis Opio at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference in Washington, DC on April 8, 2017.
BackgroundWhat is a Community Video?Stories pass on information and evoke an emotional and physical response that make them catalytic tools for changing behavior.
Residents of the Toroyili community of Ghana’s Tolon District now regularly practice the good hygiene they need for better nutrition and health. But that wasn’t always the case.
Agricultural extension services play an important role in disseminating production information to small farmers, especially on issues like aflatoxins.
This online event, hosted by The Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), reached out to development practitioners and researchers working in food security for input on research investments to support the
The U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Food Security (USAID BFS) collaborated with leaders and practitioners across the development landscape to share knowledge, good practices and lessons learned in market systems, trade, finance and resilience over a four day symposium.
This report assessed the nutrition situation amongst residents of the "estate" or commercial farm sector, identified the main causes of nutritional deficiencies, as well as gaps in the provision of key nutrition-related services in Sri Lanka.
Linking agricultural extension and advisory service with participatory learning and action on nutrition and health has the potential to improve the sustainability and impact of food and agricultural programs on nutrition and household food security.
On August 8, 2012, SPRING and the WorldFish Center signed a letter of collaboration to improve the health and nutritional status of women and children in Bangladesh.
Women’s Empowerment Mainstreaming And Networking (WEMAN) is an initiative which focuses on gender mainstreaming in rural development with the objective of contributing to food and income security, sustainable livelihoods, and gender equality in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
The South Asia Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (SAFANSI) seeks to address the South Asian Enigma—how chronic malnutrition remains intractable despite high economic growth—by fostering the crosscutting actions that will lead to measurable improvements in food and nutrition security (FNS).
Sustainable food production and healthy diets complement each other, each one providing a means and an end to achieving global food security.
Drawing upon the combined analytical skills of agriculture and nutrition program staff, this tool supports a dialogue between agriculture specialists and nutrition specialists as they jointly design project interventions aimed at improving nutrition for vulnerable women and children under age two
The African Union Commission considers biofortification to be of great importance in the fight against malnutrition. The Commission has committed to using biofortification as a central strategy to ending hunger and improving nutrition.
The role smallholder farmers play in addressing global food security is highlighted in this article. Small farms found in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, southeast Asia, and China produce 75% of food commodities globally, and 50–65% of the production volume of major food groups.
Recent evidence underscores the need for commitment from multiple sectors to end malnutrition.
In April 2017, SPRING/Guinea tested and refined a nutrition-sensitive agriculture training package that will be integrated into a broader agro-preneur program curriculum for use by the Feed the Future-funded Strengthening Market-Led