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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Estimating the Cost and Affordability of Healthy Diets: How Much do Methods Matter?
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Food Systems
Food Systems
While the cost and affordability of a healthy diet (CoAHD) metric is widely used, little is known about the accuracy and sensitivity of CoAHD indicators. Proposed methodological improvements significantly change estimates of healthy diet affordability, indicating the need for further research.
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What Does Nutrition Cost? New Resources in Costing Complex Nutrition Interventions Webinar
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Food Systems
Sustaining multi-sectoral nutrition programs and services depends on nutrition financing. How much does it cost?
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Review of Methods to Assess Diets, Markets, and Cost of an Adequate Diet
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This report describes the findings from a literature review USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted to identify a methodology to assess diets, markets, and cost of an adequate diet for the USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) Programming Guide (USAID 2022) and broader USAID programming to improve diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Transforming Food Systems from Within
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Food, agriculture, and consciousness leaders discuss the importance of cultivating inner capacities that activate systemic change and regeneration and increase equity. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
NIPN Ethiopia: Aligning with Food and Nutrition Security Priorities
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SystemsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Speakers explore how the integration of the National Information Platforms for Nutrition (NIPN) into the nutrition coordination structure enhances support to coordination and collaboration mechanisms, enables core NIPN activities to better align and contribute to the implementation of national plans and programs, and enhances the impact of NIPN products and capacity strengthening activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Losing the Plot: The Impact of Urban Agriculture on Household Food Expenditure and Dietary Diversity in Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Households engaged in urban agriculture (UA) reduced food expenditures by 3 percent and spent relatively more on protein rich foods including nuts, legumes, fruits, dairy products, meat, and poultry. However, there were significant variations in its impact across the food expenditure distribution. Larger and male-headed households and households practiced UA most often.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How Perspectives on Food Safety of Vendors and Consumers Translate into Food-Choice Behaviors in 6 African and Asian Countries
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Systems
Consumers use knowledge, lived experiences, and concerns about food safety when making food choice decisions. Successful food safety policies must consider concerns of consumers and prioritize actions to reduce risks to the food supply.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How We Can Engage Youth in Food Systems to Improve Diet and Nutrition Outcomes
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionFood Systems
Better evidence is urgently needed of effective approaches to engage youth in food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How COVID-19 Affected Food Systems, Health Service Delivery, and Maternal and Infant Nutrition Practices: Implications for Moving Forward in Kenya
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Food SystemsInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
In Kenya, fear of infection and government lockdowns reduces health service uptake, a lack of clear guidance delayed breastfeeding, and increased mother-child separation following delivery among COVID-19-positive women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seasonal Variation in the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh: Mediating Role of Child Dietary Diversity
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Child Nutrition
Children in food-insecure households are more likely to have poor nutrition and to be stunted, wasted, and underweight than those in food-secure households. Dietary diversity mediates the relationship between food insecurity and undernutrition but its impact varies seasonally. Seasonality and dietary diversity should be considered when designing population-level food-based interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
What’s Next After the “Implementation” COP? Catalyzing Action at the Intersection of Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGenderPrivate-Sector EngagementResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Speakers discuss the food security, nutrition, and water issues highlighted at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference; share examples of how USAID and partners are driving inclusive climate action in agriculture and food systems; and discuss how to support countries that are implementing climate commitments. This webinar includes a slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
December Is Food Loss and Waste Month on Agrilinks
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Posts in this series focus on how food loss and waste links to climate, food safety, nutrition, and food security. Contributors discuss the power of technology to improve cold chain and post-harvest handling, advocate for private sector and youth engagement, and provide actionable recommendations for the development community.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Tomorrow's Agri-Food System: The Connections Between Trade, Food Security, and Nutrition for a Sustainable Diet
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
The article identifies interactions, highlights synergies, and seeks to limit tradeoffs between trade, climate change, and nutrition to improve understanding of how food systems can be transformed to ensure healthy, affordable, and sustainable diets for all. This chapter is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food and Agriculture 2022
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Food Systems
Food SystemsResilience
The 2022 report explores drivers of agricultural automation and analyzes the business case for adopting digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Public Consultation on the Draft Guideline: Fiscal Policies to Promote Healthy Diets
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The World Health Organization is calling for comments on its draft guideline on fiscal policies to promote healthy diets, which will provide countries with evidence-informed recommendations on the taxation of foods and sugar-sweetened beverages and on a subset of food subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
La Revolution des Algues: A Seaweed Revolution for a New Future in Sustainable Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
A new book suggests seaweed could play a significant role in increasing food and nutrition security; mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss; and increasing sustainable job creation, economic growth, and gender equality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Innovating for Safer Foods—EatSafe in Nigeria's Approach to Designing Consumer Interventions in Traditional Markets
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Systems
This paper describes how the Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe) program in Nigeria identified and designed innovative interventions to increase consumer demand for safe foods in traditional market settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In Pursuit of More Fruitful Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food Systems
An integrated methodology that includes climate, crop, economic, and life cycle assessment models could more accurately project future yields; determine where fruit and vegetable crops may become more profitable or environmentally advantageous to produce; and assess climate change impacts on crops, including the impact on yield, irrigation demand, and the environmental footprint.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Inflation and Child Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Food inflation increases the risk of wasting and severe wasting in infants and older children, especially male children and those from poor and rural households. Food inflation during pregnancy and in the first year after birth increases the risk of stunting in children aged two to five years. Interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Can a Gender-Sensitive Integrated Poultry Value Chain and Nutrition Intervention Among the Rural Poor Increase Women’s Empowerment in Burkina Faso?
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
This study finds that a gender- and nutrition-sensitive poultry production intervention in Burkina Faso did not impact women’s empowerment or gender parity. This may be due to the lack of a productive asset transfer, which has previously been shown to be essential but not sufficient for women’s empowerment in agricultural development programs.