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Linking Agriculture and Nutrition

The most intuitive linkage between agriculture and nutrition is food production – but the relationship goes far beyond. Agriculture not only supplies food but it is the basis of the livelihoods of millions of men and women around the world. In collaboration with USAID and other implementing partners, SPRING is increasing global understanding of how nutritional outcomes may be strengthened through agricultural programming. SPRING’s team of agriculture, behavior change, and nutrition experts is documenting innovations and results, delivering technical assistance, and mobilizing stakeholders to improve nutrition through agricultural interventions around the world.

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US Ambassador to Bangladesh, Dan Mozena, and USAID Mission Director, Janina Jaruzelski, visited a SPRING farmer field school to learn first-hand about nutrition efforts.
February 2014
How better to show SPRING’s ongoing work in Bangladesh than to ask the US Ambassador and the USAID Mission Director to participate in a refresher homestead food production course for local women?Surrounded by close to 40 individuals – project leaders...
DFN representative giving a welcome speech at the learning event
December 2016
On November 7, 2016, SPRING/Sierra Leone and Helen Keller International (HKI) hosted a learning event in Lumley Beach, Sierra Leone, to share findings from three assessments conducted in Tonkolili District, Sierra Leone. The three assessments were a ...
Maximizing Nutrition Impact through Feed the Future
June 2014
In late May of 2014, international leaders from the public health and private sectors gathered for the first ever Feed the Future Global Forum. Cambodian agricultural officials shared space with Feed the Future project implementers from Tajikistan, a...