Nutrition-sensitive

SPRING/Senegal Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Workshop

A primary aspect of SPRING’s work in Senegal focuses on making agricultural interventions more nutrition-sensitive. Over the course of the first workshop, SPRING/Senegal staff completed a seasonal calendar, identified nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices, and prioritized nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions among partner programs. This first workshop laid the foundation for the second workshop, which was conducted with local implementing partners, Caritas and FEPROMAS.

Field Exchange: Special Focus on Nutrition-Sensitive Programming

Emergency Nutrition Network, January 2016

Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Program Phase Two: Developing Project-Level Indicators to Measure Women’s Empowerment (GAAP 2 for pro-WEAI)

IFPRI, January 2016

The Negative Side of the Agricultural–Nutrition Impact Pathways: A Literature Review

Dury, S., Alpha, A., and Bichard, A. World Food Policy (November 2015) Vol. 2 No. 1 pp. 78-100.

Is There an Enabling Environment for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in East Africa? Stakeholder Perspectives from Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda

Food and Nutrition Bulletin (December 2015)

COP21: A Coming of Age for the Climate-Smart Agriculture for Enhanced Nutrition Agenda?

Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA), December 2015

Researching a New Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Indicator: NRVCC Fieldwork

SPRING’s extensive fieldwork studied nutrient-rich value chain commodities (NRVCC) that direct beneficiaries produce and set aside for home consumption.

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Researching a New Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture Indicator: NRVCC Fieldwork

From April to October 2015, SPRING conducted field research to develop data collection guidance for a new Feed the Future nutrition-sensitive agriculture indicator. This annual reporting indicator is intended to track a required if applicable outcome related to consumption of nutrient-rich value chain commodities (NRVCC) by direct beneficiary households.

SPRING Delivers Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training to Farmers in Mopti

SPRING is reaching over 5,500 local farmers in the Mopti region of Mali with nutrition-sensitive agriculture education through Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) trainings. The trainings use the experiential, plot-based training methodology applied in farmer field schools (FFS) to encourage gardening of nutrient-rich horticulture. The trainings also include social behavior change communication (SBCC) to promote the uptake of nutrition-specific behaviors taken from the essential nutrition and hygiene actions (ENA/EHA) curriculum and nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices.

SPRING Conducts Nutrition Assessment in Post-Ebola Guinea

SPRING recently conducted a nutrition assessment in Guinea to contribute to post Ebola virus disease (EVD) response efforts. Before the Ebola outbreak, Guinea faced chronically high levels of undernutrition and food insecurity. About 26 percent of children 0-59 months are chronically malnourished in Guinea, and about one-third of the population is food insecure.