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.
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.
Ag2Nut Community Call for 9/16/2014, featuring speakers from IFAD, FAO, and IFPRI, discussing a nutritiono-sensitive training workshop held at IFAD headquarters in Rome, from July 15-18, 2014.
Ag2Nut Community Call for 7/30/2014, featuring Tim Sparkman (Mercy Corps) and Terri Ballard (Women's Dietary Diversity Project). Tim discussed facets of the food trade system in Uganda, and Terri gave an update on a new dietary diversity indicator.
Ag2Nut Community call for 6/19/2014, featuring Mike Manske of USAID's Global Health Bureau, who discussed the rollout of the 2014-2014 Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy.
SPRING, TOPS, and USAID hosted the final segment in a three-part webinar series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition. Theresa Hwang, Gender Director with CARE USA, and Maureen Miruka, Pathways Team Leader with CARE USA, shared experience from CARE’s rights-based approach to gender equality, which recognizes that men are not only instrumental to women’s empowerment, but that they are also affected by poverty and face specific vulnerabilities and limitations based on their gendered roles.
SPRING, TOPS, and USAID hosted the second of a three-part webinar series, Women's Empowerment and Men's Engagement: How a Focus on Gender Can Support Agriculture and Nutrition. Hazel Malapit, a Research Coordinator in IFPRI's Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, discussed her recent paper Women's Empowerment in Agriculture, Production Diversity, and Nutrition, highlighting household survey data from Nepal.
A discussion on what is needed for global monitoring of adequate food, focused on the need for appropriate indicators of adequate nutritious food, as well as some current efforts to develop such indicators
TOPS, SPRING, and USAID kicked off the first event in its webinar series examining how a focus on gender can support improved nutrition through agriculture.
On February 27thth, 2014, five experts discussed global efforts to define and implement indicators that accurately measure access to nutritious food.