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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Using Household Consumption Data to Flag Low Nutrient Access
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Food Systems
Anemia
Practitioners can use consumption frequency based on household data collected in emergency assessments and through monitoring systems as a proxy for approximating access to vitamin A and iron in humanitarian contexts. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Simple Solutions for Complex Problems? What is Missing in Agriculture for Nutrition Interventions
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
There is insufficient evidence on the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of nutrition-sensitive value chains and crop biofortification on nutritional outcomes. New evaluation frameworks and approaches that acknowledge the social, political, economic, and environmental factors and drivers of malnutrition and poverty are important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Market Access, Household Dietary Diversity, and Food Security: Evidence from Eastern Africa
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Households located closer to market centers have greater expenditures, consume more diverse diets, and have greater food security than those located farther away. Investing in accessible market development and rural infrastructure to link smallholder farmers to markets is critical to improving household dietary diversity and food security. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Industry Self-Regulation of Food Fortification Compliance: Piloting the Micronutrient Fortification Index in Nigeria
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Food Systems
Food SystemsMicronutrient InterventionsPrivate-Sector Engagement
The Micronutrient Fortification Index ranks Nigerian products based on the effectiveness and efficiency of a company’s systems and levels of fortification. Digitizing quality assurance and business processes increases accountability and harnesses the competitive nature of businesses to drive food fortification performance. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Concentration and Crises: Exploring the Deep Roots of Vulnerability in the Global Industrial Food System
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SystemsResilience
The global food system relies on a small number of staple grains produced by a small number of countries and traded by a small number of firms in highly financialized commodity markets prone to volatility. This paper explores these dynamics as they relate to worldwide food crises and food systems transformation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Air Pollutant Emissions from Global Food Systems are Responsible for Environmental Impacts, Crop Losses, and Mortality
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Between 10 and 90 percent of country-level air pollutant emissions come from food production, processing, packaging, transport, retailing, consumption, and disposal. Food system emissions are responsible for approximately 22 percent of global mortality due to poor air quality and 1.4 percent of global crop production losses. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Youth and the Democratization of Food Systems
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SystemsGenderResilience
This newsletter critiques the global industrial food system, argues for greater food sovereignty, and discusses the importance of democratizing food systems and engaging young people in this work.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Transforming Food Systems in Kenya for a New Era of Growth and Prosperity: Research-Based Recommendations for the New Government
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
This brief offers recommendations to the new Kenyan government, including allocating sufficient funding, building policy coherence, strengthening the science-policy interface, and broadening the focus from a food security to a food systems approach.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Climate Change on Food Safety and Implications for Development Programming
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood SystemsResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Designing climate-resilient food safety programs requires identifying which climate phenomena are most likely to become prominent. It also requires assessing regional changes in foodborne hazard occurrence and transport, changes in behaviors and practices to cope with climate impacts on food safety, and food system resilience through a food safety lens.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Systems
This guide provides practical advice, examples, and resources for planning and executing a successful social marketing campaign to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building Forward Better—An Exploration of Nutrition Practices, Food Choice, and Coping Behaviors Among Kenyan Adolescents During COVID-19: Experiences and Program Implications
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food Systems
Adolescents in Kenya skipped meals and reduced the amount and variety of foods consumed during the COVID-19 pandemic and reported working in the informal sector and selling personal items to support their families.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition
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Food SystemsConsumer Demand for Healthy Diets
Food Systems
This guide supports nutrition program planners by defining, describing, and explaining the process of developing high-quality programs to market healthy diets. This knowledge enables teams to make informed marketing decisions, create strong marketing campaigns, and diagnose and solve marketing challenges. The guide is grounded in real-world experiences.
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USAID Advancing Nutrition Participates in the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
USAID Advancing Nutrition participated in the International Congress of Nutrition (ICN) hosted by the International Union of Nutritional Sciences from December 6–11 in Tokyo, Japan.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Assessing the Performance of Nationally Adapted Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) Sentinel Food Lists at the Subnational Level in Six Countries (Poster)
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Food Systems
Food Systems
If national-level country-specific sentinel food lists can accurately measure food group consumption when applied at the subnational level, practitioners can better understand dietary patterns of populations. This poster was presented at the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition in December 2022.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Healthy Diets Symposium
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Systems
Presenters and panelists describe progress in providing data to understand what comprises healthy diets globally and the factors that influence them. This session was presented at the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition in December 2022.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Assessing Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries—Unlocking the Potential to Improve Diets, Nutrition, and Health Outcomes
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Food Systems
Food Systems
To guide programs improving diets, USAID Advancing Nutrition identified possible food environment interventions for healthy diets across diverse contexts. This poster was presented at the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition in December 2022.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Hidden No More: New Estimates Help the Nutrition Community Support Women and Children at Risk of Micronutrient Deficiencies
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Food SystemsKnowledge Management
AnemiaMicronutrient Interventions
Timely data on the burden of micronutrient deficiencies is essential to understanding what works where and whether we’re making progress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring What the World Eats: Launch of the Diet Quality Project Data
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Food Systems
Maternal Nutrition
Speakers present dietary quality data from 41 countries and discuss the feasibility of a global monitoring system for diet quality. This webinar includes a slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Supporting Food Systems Transformation with Better Access to Essential Data
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Food Systems Dashboard indicators measure components, drivers, and outcomes of food systems to help users identify challenges and opportunities. It also prioritizes actions and policies to transform food systems. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New Global Estimates of Micronutrient Deficiencies
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
Panelists discuss the magnitude of micronutrient deficiencies globally and strategies to accelerate progress through cost-effective and scalable actions. This is a webinar. It is available in English, French, and Spanish.