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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Innovation Lab for Nutrition Legacy Report: 2010–2021
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Knowledge Management
The Nutrition Innovation Lab’s evidence generation, policy strengthening, and capacity strengthening efforts contributed to improving nutrition through agricultural interventions. The report highlights key achievements and lessons learned during its decade of operation in nine countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Financing Q&A with Senior Nutrition Advisor Rebecca Egan
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Knowledge Management
COVID-19Food SecurityGenderPrivate-Sector Engagement
Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) deliver about 75 percent of all food consumed in sub-Saharan Africa but generally struggle to access financing. The Nutritious Foods Financing Facility will bolster SMEs and demonstrate how direct loans to SMEs can contribute to positive nutrition outcomes by increasing supply and consumption of safe and nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Scoping Review of Intervention Strategies for Improving Coverage and Uptake of Maternal Nutrition Services in Southeast Asia
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Nutrition and Health Systems
AnemiaMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
This review recommends diverse strategies and delivery mechanisms, including health education, supplementation, community participation, and robust health system responses to achieve effective maternal nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global and Local Partnerships Advance Nutrition
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Collaborative multi-sectoral nutrition initiatives include establishing food security and nutrition planning guidelines; conducting training of trainers courses delivering nutrition-specific activities to adolescent girls, pregnant women, and women of reproductive age; and supporting governments to develop strategies and tools for nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Land Use: Role of Soil for Sustainable Food Systems: A Food and Agriculture Transatlantic Dialogue
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture report emphasizes the need to minimize soil degradation and restore degraded soils, and highlights the critical role that soils can play as carbon sinks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering for Success: Lessons in Supporting Women-Led Agribusinesses
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Food Systems
COVID-19Economic GrowthGender
Speakers discuss how the Accelerating Women’s Entrepreneurship award in 2018 and the Growing Women’s Entrepreneurship award in 2019 and 2020 support entrepreneurs and their businesses—and how recipients continue to leverage tools and resources developed as part of their awards. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Advancing Food Systems Transformation: Dialogue between German Development Cooperation and CGIAR
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Food Systems
Food Security
Speakers discuss the importance of international food systems research and the science–policy interface for advancing key actions for agriculture, food systems, and food security strategy and initiatives. They also identify joint priorities, opportunities, and entry points for collaboration. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics
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Food Systems
Gender
Using the WEAI, index-based metrics are used to track progress toward women’s empowerment and gender equality in the agriculture sector. Speakers discuss the evolution of the tool, share findings from studies using the metrics, and reflect on what has been accomplished by applying the index in diverse contexts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide: Supporting Food Fortification at a Country Level and on a Global Scale
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Food Systems
COVID-19Micronutrient Interventions
The guide helps USAID Bureaus, Missions, and development partners assess specific needs and strategic opportunities to design, implement, monitor and evaluate, and adjust programming to local contexts. It supports progress toward USAID’s vision for sustainable, large-scale food fortification that improves access to adequate and affordable diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Q&A: The Manufacture of Breastmilk Substitute Products is Pumping Tons of CO2 into the Atmosphere
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The speaker discusses the environmental impacts of breastmilk substitutes and the need for governments to regulate misleading marketing messages, provide sufficient paid leave, and ensure better maternity care to support breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Safety: A Pillar of Food Security
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Security
Fresh vegetables and animal products are highly nutritious but highly susceptible to contamination. Achieving secure food systems requires understanding the complex relationships between nutrition and food safety as key components to the food security pillars of availability, utilization, and access.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Viewpoint: The Case for a Six-Dimensional Food Security Framework
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Food Systems
Food Security
This article makes the case for including agency and sustainability in policy frameworks examining food security in addition to availability, access, utilization, and stability. The impact of widening food system inequalities and growing awareness of the connections between ecological and food systems highlight the importance of these dimensions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reshaping Food Policy and Governance to Incentivize and Empower Disadvantaged Groups for Improving Nutrition
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food Security
To end malnutrition in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, multiple sectors—including health, agriculture, social protection, education, and infrastructure—must collaborate more effectively to develop and implement food and nutrition policies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementation and Scale-Up of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of What Works, What Doesn't Work, and Why
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Food Systems
Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Key areas for attention to enhance the success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs include learning from past successes and failures, strengthening local structures, and empowering communities and building resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do Not Transform Food Systems on the Backs of the Rural Poor
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food Security
Many food system transformation approaches do not explicitly include measures to ensure that envisioned changes will improve the livelihoods of low-income people living in rural areas. Such modeling risks transforming food systems to reach environmental and nutritional objectives without considering unintended consequences for this population.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Decisions to Start, Strengthen, and Sustain Food Fortification Programs: An Application of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework in Nigeria
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Food Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Gaps in program design and implementation constrain the impact of food fortification. Using the GRADE EtD framework can strengthen the decision-making processes for health systems and public health, as well as improve program design, delivery, and health impacts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sample Sizes for Saturation in Qualitative Research: A Systematic Review of Empirical Tests
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Results provide empirical guidance on effective sample sizes for qualitative research, which can be used in conjunction with characteristics of individual studies to estimate an appropriate sample size.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing the Nurturing Care Content of UNICEF's Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package: Gaps, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned
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Early Childhood Development
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Country-level best practices can address nurturing care elements missing from the generic UNICEF Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Package. Sharing these practices will help countries prioritize context-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children Living with Disabilities Are Neglected in Severe Malnutrition Protocols: A Guideline Review
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Early Childhood Development
Wasting
Few international and national guidelines have detailed discussions of the specific needs of children living with disabilities, and only one mentioned strategies during nutritional emergencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Accelerating Progress on Early Childhood Development for Children under 5 Years with Disabilities by 2030
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Disability funding has declined. Only 2 percent of global investments in early childhood development (ECD) from 2007 to 2016 was spent on disabilities, and the funding pattern has not improved since.