SPRING is partnering with the Ag2Nut Community of Practice to support monthly community calls that bring over 900 individuals from across the international donor, government, NGO, and academic communities together to discuss current issues related to agriculture-nutrition integration.
In collaboration with USAID’s Bureau of Global Health and Bureau for Food Security, SPRING hosted a series of regional and global workshops to assist Feed the Future Missions and implementing partners in strengthening linkages between nutrition objectives and agricultural programs.
Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative, and aims to address the root causes of poverty, hunger, and undernutrition.
This webinar highlighted a recent SPRING qualitative study conducted in Burkina Faso, which examined the perspective of different stakeholders working in a nutrition-focused homestead food production project run by Helen Keller International.
Feed the Future aims to link agriculture and food security projects to deliver improved nutritional outcomes and is committed to reducing child stunting in its zones of influence by 20 percent in five years. Key to this effort is an investment in activities that apply evidence-based approaches and better practices to the complex and contextually-specific challenges existing in communities most vulnerable to food insecurity.
This interactive tool aims to support the process of choosing the most appropriate tool for a given context and design purpose. To start, we strongly recommend you read this guide to using context assessment for the design of agriculture and nutrition programs for detailed information about why and how to use this tool.
The aim of the Agriculture and Nutrition Context Assessment Tool Locator and its associated user guide is to support context assessment for project design, whether creating new or amending existing projects.
The December 2014 Ag2Nut Community of Practice call featured a discussion with Anna Lartey, Director of FAO's Nutrition Division, and Francesco Branca, Director of Nutrition for Health and Development at WHO, on the ICN2.
The November 2014 AgNut Community of Practice call featured a report out on the first-ever agriculture-nutrition track at the Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2014, held in October 2014 in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Agriculture extension agents are a valuable source of information and expertise for many small-scale farmers across the globe. As global understanding builds around the linkages between agriculture and nutrition, efforts are currently underway to integrate activities promoting nutrition into agriculture extension programming in several Feed the Future countries.