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This ACDI/VOCA webinar focused on the influence of social and behavior change research in the market systems context, utilizing case studies to demonstrate its significance.
During this seminar, Gitau Mbure, Senior Technical Advisor for Agriculture at World Vision, and Clare Sullivan, Deputy Agriculture and Food Security Center at Columbia University, shared findings from a recent assessment aimed at developing guidelines for improving the management of agriculture d
Because value chains play a key role in determining food availability, affordability, and quality, they have a role in shaping diets and can contribute to improving nutrition.
Farmers in both developed and developing countries continue to face barriers to growing optimally nutritious or sustainable crops. This article provides a primer to these barriers, and how they relate to agriculture systems, markets, and policy options.
The Developing Local Extension Capacity (DLEC) Project produced diagnostics of the extension systems in Bangladesh and Nigeria.
This brief addresses a need in agricultural program design capacity by providing a list of food system-based intervention options that have great potential to improve nutrition.
In its new technical brief, the ANH Academy’s Food Environments Working Group provides an overview of the nutrition field and proposes a conceptual framework in which the food environment acts as an important interface between the wider food system and people’s food acquisition and consumption th
The Commodity Management (CM) Toolkit is an operational guide for anyone working on programs using food commodities. This toolkit, created by TOPS, is a set of interconnected flowcharts that provide a road map of the entire CM process - from project start-up through close-out - in simple steps.
To prevent storage of moldy crops, which are detrimental to farmers from both health and market perspectives, researchers at UC Davis invented a low-cost, easy-to-use tool that farmers can use to measure food dryness, called the DryCard.
In this interview with Kristin O'Planick and Sally Abbott of USAID, learn how the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) and the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) activities coordinated to address making agricultural market development activities
To meet the growing demand from many countries for experiential learning about what works in Nutrition, Stories of Change sought to systematically assess and analyze drivers of change in six high-burden countries that have had some success in accelerating improvements in nutrition.
Stunting in children continues to be a public health challenge
BREAKING NEW GROUND IN GLOBAL NUTRITIONSPRING focuses on improving lives—especially in the first 1,000 days—by working across food, health, and hygiene, by linking agriculture and nutrition, by aiming for social and behavior change through communication, by building the evidence base f
How to Achieve Impact at Scale
In 2017, SPRING/Ghana started piloting Father-to-Father Support Groups in four communities in the Northern and Upper East Regions of Ghana.
In Guinea, SPRING is promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture and maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) practices through radio programs and community videos.
Cécile Ndiaye (right) speaks with two training participants.In April 2017, SPRING/Guinea
In April 2017, SPRING/Guinea and Farm Radio International (FRI) led trainings in Mamou and Faranah for four local community radio stations on how to develop ef