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Dietary diversity

Community Video (Niger): How Can We Ensure Dietary Diversity in the Sahel?

While a woman is separating some food from the family meal for her young child, the community health worker (CHW) stops by. He congratulates the woman for feeding her child diverse foods on a separate plate and encourages her to also pound meat to add to the child’s meal. Later, the CHW picks Moringa leaves and tomatoes in his garden and explains to his friend that he will dry and store them to feed his children a diverse diet when the dry season arrives. He then demonstrates how to dry and store the leaves and tomatoes.

Context Matters: SPRING Interactive Agriculture and Nutrition Context Assessment Guide for Improved Multi-sectoral Design

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.

Formative Research: Key Influencers of Household Food Access in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

two women and a child standing in front of a sign
Photo credit: Judiann McNulty, SPRING consultant

Executive Summary

SPRING conducted formative research in August 2014 to explore factors that affect household-level food purchase and production decisions in the Feed the Future zone of influence (ZOI) of the USAID Guatemala’s Western Highlands Integrated Program (WHIP).

Global Health Mini-University

This annual one-day learning forum is celebrating its 14th year! Mini-University 2015 will offer over 60 sessions in one of the eight technical tracks environmental health; family planning & reproductive health; health systems; HIV and AIDS; infectious disease; maternal, child, neonatal health; non-communicable disease & injury; and nutrition. SPRING will be participating in the nutrition track, so look for us there!