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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Consumer Demand, Food Safety, and Market Systems
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsGender
Willingness-to-pay data improve understanding of consumer preferences and contribute to the evaluation of market opportunities for food safety interventions and policy priorities. When consumer willingness to pay provides insufficient incentives for producers, government-driven policy changes may be required.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Accounting for Dietary Deprivations in Rural Africa: Poor Households, Poor Farms, or Poor Food Environments?
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Food Systems
Food SecurityFood Systems
This analysis of datasets from rural Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania produced evidence of the important role of wealth and livestock diversification in reducing dietary deprivation and the strong association of local farming systems with dietary outcomes.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Special Issue "Nutrition Guidelines for Adolescent Growth and Development"
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Although adolescence is a nutrition-sensitive phase of growth, nutritional guidelines specifically focusing on this age group are limited, particularly those that focus on nutritional problems related to energy and macronutrient excess and micronutrient deficiencies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Nawiri Framework
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Knowledge Management
WastingFood SecurityGender
This web-based tool captures key learning from an exploration of local drivers of persistent acute malnutrition and design interventions based on evidence, local context, community strengths and assets, and feasibility for government scale-up.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Ghana Integration of Food and Nutrition Security into District Medium-Term Development Plans
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Food Security
Ghana has made some progress towards reducing malnutrition in recent years, but it remains a key development concern and requires a multi-sectoral approach to planning, financing, and coordinating actions to tackle it.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Improving Nutrition during Middle Childhood and Adolescence by 2032: A Research Roadmap
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsMaternal Nutrition
In 2021, Emergency Nutrition Network conducted a prioritization exercise to help set out a 10-year research agenda to support child and adolescent nutrition (5–19 years of age) in low- and middle-income countries.
Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank
Perspective: Interventions to Improve the Diets of Children and Adolescents
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Adolescent NutritionFood SecurityFood Systems
This article uses the determinants of the Innocenti Framework on Food Systems for Children and Adolescents (food supply chains; food environments; and behaviors of caregivers, children, and adolescents) to describe the significance of a food systems approach to improve child and adolescent diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Nigeria
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A case study based on the UNICEF Action Framework for improving the diets of young children during the complementary feeding period.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Complementary Feeding in Emergencies Programming in Sudan
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Early Childhood Development
Complementary FeedingEarly Childhood DevelopmentFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
A case study based on the UNICEF Action Framework for improving the diets of young children during the complementary feeding period.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Updating Evidence on the Relationship Between Child Wasting and Stunting
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Early Childhood Development
Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
For decades, wasting and stunting have been approached as separate conditions, largely disconnected in advocacy, programming, policy and financing.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplement Program Implementation
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Complementary FeedingEmergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
This report describes a learning activity to 1) document the factors that promoted and/or hindered successful implementation of small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements (SQ-LNS) programs in highly food insecure contexts and 2) garner perspectives on considerations for scale-up.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Report on Food Crises 2022—Mid-Year Update
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Food Systems
Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
Despite humanitarian and development assistance, the number of people requiring urgent humanitarian assistance worldwide is rising due to economic shocks, COVID-19, conflict, and climate change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Large-Scale Staple Food Fortification as a Complementary Strategy to Address Vitamin and Mineral Vulnerabilities in India: A Critical Review
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Food Systems
AnemiaCOVID-19Food SecurityMicronutrient Interventions
Large-scale food fortification was safe with current dietary intake and deficiencies and in areas with low coverage of other interventions. Researchers stressed the importance of effective monitoring and regular dietary surveys.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Performance of the UNICEF/UN Washington Group Tool for Identifying Functional Difficulty in Rural Zimbabwean Children
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Early Childhood Development
Food Security
The Washington Group Child Functioning Module (WGCFM) showed concurrent validity with the Malawi Developmental Assessment Tool (MDAT). For each unit increase in the WGCFM score, children completed 2.6 fewer MDAT items.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children: A Synthesis of Study Findings from Cameroon and South Sudan
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
DietsEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in South Sudan: Study Findings
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
DietsEmergency NutritionFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Agriculture in Complex Emergencies: Exploring the Association between Agricultural Programs and Dietary Diversity among Women and Children in Cameroon: Study Findings
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsImproving Women and Children’s Diets in Emergency Contexts
DietsEmergency NutritionFood SecurityMaternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID's) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) seeks to improve the impact of emergency-funded agricultural activities on nutritional status, especially that of women and young children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Security and Nutrition in the World
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food Security
Experts argue that food labeling, taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, and stronger regulations on marketing products high in fat, sugar, or salt to children are critical to address the rising levels of hunger and malnutrition. Adjusting policies on subsidies could improve food supply quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Can Nutrition Research Better Reflect the Relationship Between Wasting and Stunting in Children? Learnings from the Wasting and Stunting Project
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Adolescent NutritionEmergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Authors discussed how to design and finance research with a wasting and stunting lens to better understand, prevent, and treat child undernutrition. Lessons learned focused on the interactions and relationships between children's weight loss and linear growth faltering, factors driving different types of undernutrition, and the importance of identifying and targeting those most at risk.
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 SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingComplementary FeedingFood SecurityGrowth Monitoring and PromotionHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
The relationship between depression and diets and anthropometry was most common in the literature, while the connection between infant and young child feeding and anxiety, stress, and mental well-being were least studied.