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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
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
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.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Addressing Overweight and Obesity in LMICs in the Realm of Rural Development and Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Results from a literature review and five country examples show that most food system-related interventions use traditional approaches such as food package labeling, price manipulation, and changing the food environment but there is a gap in the evidence on what works.
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Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste Webinar
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food environments play a significant role in shaping food purchasing and consumption behaviors, affecting diets and nutrition.
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Strategies, Standards, and Regulations to Increase Access to Safe and Nutritious Foods Webinar
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Food Systems
Raising awareness of and promoting the adoption and enforcement of food safety standards requires government agencies to collaborate closely.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Systems Toolkit (Resource Collection)
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Food Systems
Food SystemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
USAID and USAID Advancing Nutrition curated the Food Systems Toolkit which is focused on a set of tools to support USAID Missions and partners in putting a food systems approach into action. The toolkit comprises resources that provide practical guidance on how to design, implement, and measure concrete activities that improve diets and nutrition through food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measurement of Diets That Are Healthy, Environmentally Sustainable, Affordable, and Equitable: A Scoping Review of Metrics, Findings, and Research Gaps
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Researchers recommend using indicators and metrics that link social and economic issues to more commonly assessed diet-climate-planetary ecology relationships and integrating processed food products in analyses to better reflect consumer choices.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children’s and Adolescents’ Rising Animal-Source Food Intakes in 1990–2018 Were Impacted by Age, Region, Parental Education, and Urbanicity
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionFood SystemsGender
Data from 185 countries indicated that mean animal-source foods (ASF) intake was 1.9 servings per day. Intake was similar between boys and girls but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 servings for children under age 1 to 2.5 servings per day for those ages 15–19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Agency Learning and Evidence Month 2023
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
Webinar topics include operational effectiveness; resilience to shocks; climate change; addressing corruption, migration, and forced displacement; diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility; affirmative development; locally led development; and partnering for sustainability. This is a series of webinars.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Systems Worldwide: Counting Down to 2030
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
This paper presents the process used to construct the first global food systems baseline to track changes and underscore the importance of food systems-specific monitoring and transformation agendas. While data are available for most domains, off-farm livelihoods, food loss and waste, and governance represent critical data gaps.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Aquatic Foods (Sea Vegetables and Bivalves) Toolkits for Chefs, Food Service Professionals, and Healthcare Professionals
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Food Systems
Food Systems
These evidence-based tools and resources support chefs, food service operators, leaders in consumer packaged goods, and nutrition professionals in promoting and marketing bivalves and sea vegetables.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Development Outlooks to Subsistent Apiculture in a Transition: The Case of Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Using locally developed top-bar hives rather than traditional beehives increases annual honey production in Ethiopia by 40 percent, but development initiatives continue to overwhelmingly focus on traditional hives. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Maladaptation in Food Systems and Ways to Avoid it
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The author reviews current literature and examples of outcomes that may increase risk or vulnerability to climate change and discusses prevention strategies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Achieving Food Security Through a Food Systems Lens
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Food Systems
Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Resilience
This book chapter examines how food security has been framed and addressed historically. The author stresses the importance of a food systems approach to addressing the increasingly complex dynamics that impact food security.