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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seat at the Table: A Devex Dish Event
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Food Systems
Food Security
Discussions include the role of foreign policy in ending global malnutrition, effective financial investment in food systems reform, the relationship between food systems reform and climate change, and the importance of understanding the links between conflict and food security. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Promoting Nutrition-Sensitive Innovation across the Food System: Introduction to the Work of the New Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Security
Speakers discuss the Innovation Lab’s research and capacity strengthening agenda and how it plans to support the broader objectives of USAID and the Feed the Future initiative. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Tech and Climate-Smart Agriculture
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Food Systems
Food Security
Speakers discuss the role of advanced technology in promoting climate-smart agriculture, achieving goals under the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate and the U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, and addressing food security in the United States and globally. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Policy and Research for Food System Transformation in Nepal
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Food Systems
Food Security
Engaging policy stakeholders beyond agricultural production systems; collaborating with credible local partners; and developing national, provincial, and local capacities for various subsectors of the food system are critical. National policymaking institutions and think tanks should drive identification of policy and research priorities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How a Comprehensive Food Policy Improved Child and Adolescent Diets at School in Chile
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
While the school environment provides an opportunity to improve health and nutritional well-being, complementary regulations in other environments may reduce partial compensatory behavior and influence overall child and adolescent diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Report on the State of Dietary Data
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Food Systems
Food Security
This report analyzes key characteristics and trends of dietary surveys over time, includes country stories on dietary survey initiation, implementation, and data use, and provides data visualizations to highlight the type of information dietary data can provide for policy makers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Freshwater Aquaculture is More Important for Food Security than Previously Understood
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Food Systems
Food Security
Balanced approaches to science, policy, and investment that prioritize freshwater aquaculture development in addition to mariculture contribute more to global food security than those favoring mariculture alone.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Conceptualising and Assessing Food Affordability
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Food Systems
Food Security
Affordability measures should incorporate a portion of savings, include all income sources, and consider reallocating funds spent on less healthy foods to healthier foods. Introducing interventions to change perceptions about the values of foods, reducing the scarcity mindset, and enhancing access to financial institutions could improve nutritious food affordability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Priority Micronutrient Density in Foods
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
Top sources of priority micronutrients include organs, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, bivalves, crustaceans, goat, beef, eggs, milk, canned fish with bones, mutton, and lamb. Cheese, goat milk, and pork are also good sources, followed by yogurt, fresh fish, pulses, teff, and canned fish without bones.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Exposure to Unhealthy Food Marketing: A Narrative Review of the Literature
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Increasing awareness among parents and caregivers to the high levels and harmful effects of children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing may build support for policy change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Drivers of Food Acquisition Practices in the Food Environment of Peri-Urban Hyderabad, India: A Qualitative Investigation
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Findings from a study investigating food acquisition practices in Hyderabad, India, revealed a need for targeted interventions in external and personal food environments to improve diets, nutrition, and health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do Engaging Fathers and Bundling Nutrition and Parenting Interventions Improve Young Child Diets and Development and Promote Gender Equality?
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Early Childhood Development
GenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Bundled interventions produced greater benefits for child development, child diets, nutrition and parenting practices, and household gender equality than nutrition-only interventions. Engaging couples benefited child diets, maternal and paternal care practices, household gender equality, and women’s empowerment more than interventions for mothers only.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
WHO Recommendations on Maternal and Newborn Care for a Positive Postnatal Experience
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Early Childhood Development
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Recommendations focus on improving the quality of essential, routine postnatal care for women and newborns receiving facility- or community-based care in any resource setting. This report includes accompanying materials.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum for IYCF Counseling
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Responsive Care and Early Learning Addendum package includes illustrated counseling cards; training materials; and a guide for planning, adaptation, and implementation. It is designed for use in both individual and group counseling sessions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measurement Tools and Indicators for Assessing Nurturing Care for Early Childhood Development: A Scoping Review
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Nurturing care encompasses good health, adequate nutrition, opportunities for early learning, responsive caregiving, and safety and security, but there is insufficient focus on measuring the last three. Additional research is important to establish optimal measures and indicators for assessing nurturing care, especially for early learning and responsive caregiving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence-Informed Milestones for Developmental Surveillance Tools
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Early Childhood Development
Revised milestones and checklists can support developmental surveillance, clinical judgment for additional developmental screening, and research in developmental surveillance processes. Researchers identified gaps in developmental data, particularly for social-emotional and cognitive milestones.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Estimates of a Multidimensional Index of Nurturing Care in the Next 1000 Days of Life for Children in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Modelling Study
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Early Childhood Development
Most children in low and middle-income countries are not receiving minimally adequate nurturing care during the next 1,000 days of their lives. Further investments in indicator measurement and resources for preschool-age children are important, particularly for low-income populations and in the domains of responsive caregiving, early learning, and safety and security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Caregiver Parenting Practices, Dietary Diversity Knowledge, and Association with Early Childhood Development Outcomes among Children Aged 18–29 Months in Zanzibar, Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Survey
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Researchers found a positive association between the frequency of caregiver-child interactions and knowledge of adequate dietary diversity and early childhood development outcomes. This aligns with global evidence that promoting early stimulation, play and learning opportunities, and dietary diversity can improve developmental outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Associations between Exclusive Breastfeeding Duration and Children's Developmental Outcomes: Evidence from Siaya County, Kenya
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Early Childhood Development
Breastfeeding
Exclusive breastfeeding in the 3- to 6-month age range has significant positive associations with child development, especially for communication, gross motor skills, and problem solving.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Prioritizing Investments in Pre-Service Health Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Human Centered Approach
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Capacity Strengthening
Speakers present a human-centered design approach to strengthen health workforce capacity and a set of educational capacity frameworks that provide operational definitions and criteria for progress to guide investment in pre-service education. This is a webinar.