Understanding local contexts is critical to designing and implementing effective approaches to improve nutrition through agricultural programs. While many tools have been developed to help implementers with context assessment, knowing which tool is most appropriate for particular aspects of programming can be a challenge.
Lidan Du, Victor Pinga, Alyssa Klein, Heather Danton, Chapter One - Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition Impact through the Feed the Future Initiative, In: Jeyakumar Henry, Editor(s), Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, Academic Press, 2015, Volume 74, Pages 1-46, ISSN 1043-4526, ISBN 9780128022269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.afnr.2014.11.001.
In this chapter in Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, SPRING reviews the nutrition narrative in relation to food and nutrition and presents the current understanding of linkages between agriculture and nutrition and the Feed the Future initiative's efforts to strengthen the nutritional impact of agricultural and economic growth activities.
Since 2010, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger) and a scientific committee led by a small group of researchers (Tufts University, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, World Food Program) and technical experts have collaborated to develop a method to analyse the complex, dynamic, locally-specific causes of undernutrition.
The webinar on Thursday, April 30, 2015 unpacked how two agricultural livelihoods and food systems investments strive to improve household nutrition
The April 23, 2015, Ag2Nut community call featured two new toolkits for gender in agriculture, food security, and nutrition. The event explored new thinking in this important area, as well as the application and complementarities of the two toolkits.
Anna Herforth, a lead author of the World Bank's SecureNutrition paper, presented an overview and unveiled a new ‘digital timeline’ online, letting audiences access the information in an interactive format.
Poor farmers in low and middle income countries are often risk-averse and reluctant to adopt new methods of farming, since crop failure could potentially lead to extreme hardship. Digital Green works with local farmers to create community-led videos disseminated through local social networks to encourage farmers to adopt new practices to improve their livelihoods.
The Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) is a community forum to teach and mentor household members to improve the production and consumption of high-quality diets rich in micronutrients for pregnant and la
Agricultural interventions are increasingly being integrated into health and nutrition programs and expected to contribute to improved health and nutrition. As a result, there is greater need for evidence and guidance on potential synergies between and across these sectors, especially in terms of what mix of actions can best support priority outcomes under each. The range and types of proven research methods used for agriculture are and have been quite separate from those used for health and nutrition.
The Harvesting Nutrition Contest award ceremony on February 19, 2015 showcased three agriculture-nutrition projects that demonstrated outstanding innovation, potential for impact, or scalability. Ag2Nut members often make or receive requests for case studies of "what works" in agriculture-nutrition programming, and this call gave the community an opportunity to dive in.