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Food Systems Toolkit ›
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A bi-monthly round-up of research, tools, news, and events from across the global nutrition community. Go to the Resource Review ›
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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nurturing Young Children through Responsive Feeding
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Knowledge Management
Child NutritionComplementary FeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Comprehensive counseling, and responsive feeding (RF) are an essential aspect of adequate nutrition and responsive caregiving. This brief describes how responsive feeding promotes positive caregiver-child interactions and early learning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Consortium’s 2022 Annual Report
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Knowledge Management
Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Key activities this year include engaging national actors to adopt and scale multiple micronutrient supplementation; raising awareness of women’s nutrition challenges; developing strategic partnerships and collaborations across maternal nutrition, health, and related fields; and expanding the consortium’s capacity, expertise, and reach.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2023 World Food Prize Laureate: Heidi Kuhn
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGenderPrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Kuhn’s organization, Roots of Peace, has facilitated the removal of unexploded bombs and landmines; planted millions of grapevines and fruit trees; provided training for farmers; restored agricultural value chains; and rebuilt food systems, livelihoods, and communities in several war-torn countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
What it Takes to Bounce Back from Severe Malnutrition: Albatoul’s Story
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Knowledge Management
Acute MalnutritionGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Aid workers reported increases in the number of women seeking care and treatment for their malnourished children and in ready-to-use therapeutic food refill requests. While they urge mothers to stick to a schedule during treatment and to bring their children back for follow-up to ensure a full recovery, they are fearful that critical supplies could be cut off.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition and Feeding of Children with Feeding Difficulties and Disabilities: Gaps, Progress, and Opportunities
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Knowledge Management
BreastfeedingChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Supporting children with feeding difficulties and disabilities requires strengthening systems to improve the identification, early intervention, and inclusion of children with complex needs in primary health care services and expanding availability of specialized services. Provide support to families to address social determinants and raise awareness of the need and opportunities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SystemsGenderResilience
Researchers discuss how multi-sectoral World Food Program interventions, partnerships, and collaborations have reduced tensions and improved social cohesion in fragile contexts. This is a webinar. It is in English with simultaneous interpretation into French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Irregular Migration and Food Security: A View from West Africa
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionFood Systems
Speakers discuss a mixed method, route-based study to look at migrant origins, their transit experience, and where their journey stalls or ends. They introduce an interactive website that illustrates the migrant journey and associated risks. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Dietquality.org: New Data and Tools for 50+ Countries Unveiled
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The website presents new diet data and country-adapted data collection tools for 56 countries. It also offers an indicator calculator to help users analyze their own data. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Is Women’s Empowerment Bearing Fruit? Mapping Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) Results Using the Gender and Food Systems Framework
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Findings suggest that women’s empowerment contributes to improved diets and nutritional status, especially for children, but that household wealth, social class, and gender norms moderate impacts. Strengthening the evidence base will require more research using experimental and quasi-experimental methods and completing gender-disaggregated analyses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Environment Toolkit to Inform Consumer-Driven Food Market System Programming for Better Maternal and Child Nutrition
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Food Systems
Child NutritionFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This toolkit helps market actors understand and develop strategies to address barriers to increasing sales of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Context Assessment for Mixed Farming Systems in Malawi
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
Key recommendations in this assessment include training smallholder farmers about the benefits of adopting sustainable intensification technologies; establishing demonstration plots; and improving farmer access to inputs, support services, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Shaping Food Environments to Support Sustainable Healthy Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Researchers prioritize developing a comprehensive structural framework to facilitate understanding of interactions among different domains; generating comprehensive and reliable data; and developing evidence-based, actionable policies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Policies for Optimal Nutrition-Sensitive Options: A Study of Food and Nutrition Security Policies, Strategies, and Programs in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Recommendations include conducting research on sustainable funding mechanisms, researching and implementing evidence-based interventions, and identifying indicators to measure the impact of agriculture on nutrition and to ensure the efficient use of resources.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impact of Zinc and Iron Agronomic Biofortification on Grain Mineral Concentration of Finger Millet Varieties as Affected by Location and Slope
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
Adding zinc and iron to soil is a promising strategy to enhance the concentration of zinc and iron in finger millet grain and combat micronutrient deficiencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Do Food Companies Try to Reach Lower-Income Consumers, and Do They Succeed? Insights From a Systematic Review
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Food Systems
Food SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Researchers identified 13 business model features that food companies use to reach lower-income consumers, but found little evidence of success in reaching consumers or improving diet quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Characteristics of Food Environments that Influence Food Acquisition and Diets of Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review Protocol
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
This protocol focuses on identifying and mapping characteristics of food environments that influence food acquisition practices and dietary intake among women of reproductive age, especially pre-conception, during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) Measurement Usage among Children with Disabilities: A Systematic Review
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Nutrition and Health Systems
Child Nutrition
Studies reviewed indicate mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) is used as part of nutritional assessments on children with disabilities, but measurement methods, references, and cut-offs were inconsistent. Speed, simplicity, and ease of use make MUAC useful for implementers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition Resources and Tools Across the USAID Program Cycle
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Knowledge Management
To support multi-sectoral nutrition, the resource collection provides tools for strategic planning, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, skill building and curricula, and learning and new evidence.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Availability and Geographic Location of Open-Source Food Composition Data Used to Estimate Micronutrient Intakes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Identifying and reporting geographic information in publicly available food composition tables and databases and accommodating spatially resolved food composition data requires new data structures and improved metadata.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Emergency Response Preparedness: Rollout of the Global Nutrition Cluster’s Toolkit for Country Coordination Teams
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Emergency NutritionResilience
Despite support and resources, few Global Nutrition Cluster priority countries have incorporated emergency response preparedness (ERP) into their work. This report showcases how four countries have begun to mainstream ERP. Authors stress the need to investigate why many countries are not prioritizing ERP, to address challenges, and help countries advocate for domestic ERP financing.