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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Food Safety for Mothers and Children

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Knowledge Management Food SafetyWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Toxins and germs that come from food, improper food preparation, and poor storage are harmful to the health of children and pregnant women. Cooking food at a safe temperature, boiling water, washing hands with soap, and enforcing food safety rules saves lives.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Climate Crisis and Nutrition: Examples from Niger

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Knowledge Management Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker describes the Wadata program, which provides hands-on training in natural resource management, nutrition, food preparation with local ingredients, financial literacy, and interpersonal communication.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Acting on the Call

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Knowledge Management Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
The annual Acting on the Call report continues to highlight progress toward a shared vision and commitment to preventing child and maternal deaths.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

World Food Day 2021

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Food Systems Food Security
The platform hosts videos, highlights food heroes, and describes World Food Day events. It includes a call to action for all elements of agri-food systems to collaborate more fairly, sustainably, and inclusively.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Nourishing Food Systems: The Interdependency Between Agriculture and Nutrition

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Food Systems Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Agriculture and nutrition are often siloed in terms of policy, field implementation, and economic impact. Speakers explored the interdependence between agriculture and nutrition, current challenges, and models of progress. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Agricultural Innovation for African Sustainability and Resilience

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Food Systems Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
Participants met to identify priority actions for investments in agricultural research, development, extension, and the development of an enabling policy environment. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

World Food Day: Get Involved!

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Food Systems Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The call for action provides tips and actions that individuals, governments, private companies and corporations, schools, civil society, academia, and others can take to improve food production, nutrition, and the environment. The report is available in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Viewpoint: Rigorous Monitoring Is Necessary to Guide Food System Transformation In the Countdown to the 2030 Global Goals

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Food Systems Growth Monitoring and PromotionResilience
Authors propose a rigorous, science-based monitoring framework centered around diets, nutrition, and health; environment and climate; livelihoods, poverty, and equity; governance; and resilience and sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy 2022–2026

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Food Systems Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
This updated strategy responds to the challenges of the moment. Priorities include collaborating with local partners to address challenges to inclusion by intentionally engaging all actors, working to address the effects of climate change on agriculture, and adopting practices to counter the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Towards Food Systems Transformation—Five Paradigm Shifts for Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems

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Food Systems Food SecurityResilience
Avoiding trade-offs and building synergies among health and nutrition, inclusive livelihoods, environmental sustainability, and food system resilience requires fundamental paradigm shifts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Systematic Evidence and Gap Map of Research Linking Food Security and Nutrition to Mental Health

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Food Systems Food Security
How food security and nutrition connect with mental health has been researched, but conclusions are difficult to draw given the breadth of literature. This map visualizes the extent and nature of analytical studies focusing on the relationship, guides further research, and solidifies strategic planning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

FAO/WHO GIFT | Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool

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Food Systems Food Safety
The tool provides food-based indicators focused on nutrition and food safety to support policymakers, program planners, nongovernmental organization staff, and other stakeholders in making informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Enhancing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Low- and Middle Income Countries Through a Food Systems Approach

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Food Systems Food SecurityPrivate-Sector Engagement
This brief highlights the main constraints, opportunities, and leverage points to enhance food systems related to fruit and vegetable consumption, trade, processing, and production.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Reverse Thinking: Taking a Healthy Diet Perspective Towards Food Systems Transformations

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Food Systems Food Security
A healthy diet perspective is essential to ensure food systems focus on supplying nutritious foods and providing equitable access to healthy, sustainable, and culturally acceptable diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Environmental Performance of Blue Foods

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Food Systems Food SecurityNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Fish and other aquatic foods (“blue foods”) can contribute to more sustainable diets, but comprehensive comparisons are limited because these foods are rarely included in environmental impact studies. The analysis identifies high-performing blue foods, highlights opportunities to improve environmental performance, and provides estimates to enable data-poor environmental assessments.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

For Children with Disabilities, “Wait and See” Just Won't Work

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Early Childhood Development Adolescent Nutrition
It is critical for doctors, families, policymakers, and researchers to work together to support early diagnosis and intervention for children with developmental disabilities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The Climate Crisis is a Child Rights Crisis

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Early Childhood Development Adolescent NutritionEmergency Nutrition
The Children’s Climate Risk Index measures the likelihood that climate and environmental shocks or stresses will lead to the erosion of development progress, the deepening of deprivation, and humanitarian crises affecting children or vulnerable households and groups. The document is available in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Maternal Resources for Care are Associated with Child Growth and Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh and Vietnam

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Early Childhood Development Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
Maternal height, good nourishment, mental well-being, decision-making, support in chores, and perceived social support were associated with child health and development outcomes. Interventions that help to improve resources among mothers have the potential to foster child growth and development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Evaluation of a Community-Based Mobile Video Breastfeeding Intervention in Khayelitsha, South Africa: The Philani MOVIE Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

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Early Childhood Development BreastfeedingCOVID-19
Videos were as effective as face-to-face counseling when community health workers (CHWs) used them to replace a portion of that counseling. mHealth video interventions could be a feasible and practical solution to support the delivery and scaling of community health promotion services when the CHW workforce is limited.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Associations between Women’s Empowerment and Child Development, Growth, and Nurturing Care Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Demographic and Health Survey Data

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Early Childhood Development Adolescent NutritionGender
There is a strong association between women’s empowerment and early child cognitive development, child growth, early learning, and nutrition outcomes. Authors call for future research to explore the relationship between empowerment and socioemotional, literacy–numeracy, or physical development.