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The UN Decade of Action on Nutrition provides a window of opportunity to enhance coordination and collaboration among all actors, and drive integrated action across multiple sectors, to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services has developed The New Extensionist: a global view of extension and advisory services (EAS) that reinvents and clearly articulates the role of EAS in the rapidly-changing rural context.
The IndiKit indicator tool was developed by the Czech relief and development organization People in Need (PIN).
Mercy Lung’aho, nutritionist for the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, grapples with the gap between food security and nutrition in Rwanda.
This program uses a social entrepreneurship approach to strengthen university training in policy analysis for food systems, with emphasis on developing countries.
Access to a well-rounded extension system provides key support to the 6 million people working in Zambia’s agriculture sector.
Climate change is a threat multiplier, particularly when it comes to food security and nutrition.
Thiane Dramé is a champion of agricultural diversification in Senegal’s Kaolack Region.
Ever since she has been using improved poultry production practices, Ndèye Khady has improved her family’s nutrition and her financial autonomy. She can now help her husband with household expenses.
Fanta visits her sister, Awa, who teaches her how to cook. She notices that her neighbor has a variety of preserved fruits and vegetables. Awa explained how she made the preserves when she had an abundance of vegetables.
Some of the best and brightest nutrition minds gathered from across the world, convening in Granada, Spain, over six days in September for the 20th International Congress on
In May and June 2017, SPRING/Senegal organized capacity building workshops for community video hubs to equip them to independently produce videos after the end of the project.
From sharing caregiving duties to pooling funds to buy farm equipment, people thrive when they work together toward shared goals.
According to the Kyrgyz Republic Demographic and Health Survey from 2014, only 60 percent of newborns in the Kyrgyz Republic are breastfed within an hour after birth and only 41 percent of infants under 6 months are exclusively breastfed.
Poverty is often a precursor to malnutrition. When families don’t have access to diverse diets and proper sanitation, the youngest members in the critical first 1,000 days, from pregnancy up to the child’s second birthday, suffer lifelong consequences that only further the cycle of poverty.
What makes agriculture nutrition-sensitive? Agriculture is nutrition-sensitive when it goes beyond food production to address the underlying causes of malnutrition.Read more
How can we reduce anemia? Governments and communities must work together to implement tailored solutions that address the many causes of anemia.Read more
How can we reduce anemia? Governments and communities must work together to implement tailored solutions that address the many causes of anemia.Read more