Multisectoral Nutrition Programming: FANTA Achievements and Lessons Learned
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) Project, September 2017.
Agriculture
Fill the Nutrient Gap: Identifying Context-Specific Solutions to Improve Nutrition Across Systems
The World Food Program and Secure Nutrition, September 2017.
Life Beyond Maize
IIED, 2017.
SPRING Shares Experiences with Partners in Guinea
“Using community video is like having a demonstration plot in every village.” This quote from one of SPRING’s partners in Guinea helped set the tone for a learning event that SPRING/Guinea held on July 17 in Conakry in collaboration with partners Digital Green and Farm Radio International.
SPRING/Ghana Launches Nut Roasting Equipment as a Partnership with USAID and Hershey
On August 21, SPRING/Ghana participated in an event in Kumasi celebrating the launch of new groundnut roasting equipment. SPRING procured this equipment as part of a public-private partnership between USAID and Hershey to help Project Peanut Butter in its work to provide safe, nutritious foods to the children of Ghana.
Read more about the event in our news item.
SPRING Helps Launch Groundnut Roaster as Part of Public-Private Partnership Between USAID and Hershey
On August 21, 2017, SPRING participated in an event commemorating the launch of nut roasting equipment in Kumasi, Ghana. This equipment was purchased through SPRING as part of the public-private partnership between USAID and Hershey, to be used by Project Peanut Butter in their work to provide safe, nutritious foods to children in Ghana. The use of the groundnut roasting equipment will contribute to the groundnut value chain in Ghana, help increase the incomes of Ghanaian groundnut farmers, and open a new market for Ghana to export high-quality raw groundnuts.
As Easy as ABC: Accelerating Behavior Change in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture E-Learning Course Now Available
While there are many opportunities to make agriculture more nutrition-sensitive, understanding how to influence behavior to address the indirect causes of malnutrition can be a challenge. USAID’s multi-sectoral nutrition project, SPRING, has developed an online training course for professionals who design and implement agriculture projects. The course builds knowledge and skills so participants can make agriculture projects more nutrition-sensitive by more effectively leveraging agriculture’s potential to contribute to specified nutrition outcomes.
Dietary Gap Assessment: An Approach for Evaluating Whether a Country’s Food Supply Can Support Healthy Diets at the Population Level
Public Health Nutrition, May 2017.
ATONU’s Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention (NSI) Selection Tool
FANRPAN, July 2017.