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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Working Within the Food System: Gender Considerations for Achieving Improved Diets
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
Investments should enhance women’s roles in agriculture and off-farm livelihoods; provide workplace support to offset risks to household nutrition; and ensure opportunities for income generation, decision-making, and control over household income.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring What the World Eats: Insights from a New Approach
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The Global Diet Quality Project helps countries measure dietary adequacy and consumption of foods that protect against, or increase the risk for, noncommunicable diseases.
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
Stories of Change in Nutrition: Lessons from a New Generation of Studies from Africa, Asia and Europe
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Food Systems
Food SystemsGender
This research focused on multi-sectoral determinants; changes in the food environment; the role of structural factors; and changes in political commitment, cross-sectoral coherence, and capacity. To address these interrelated issues, nutrition policy must simultaneously address upstream social, economic, and equity determinants as well as health and dietary determinants.
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
Global Dietary Quality in 185 Countries from 1990 to 2018 Show Wide Differences by Nation, Age, Education, and Urbanicity
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionMaternal Nutrition
The Alternative Healthy Eating Index produced regional means ranging from 30.3 (out of 100) in Latin America and the Caribbean to 45.7 in South Asia. Child scores were lower than adult scores in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and high-income countries. Scores were higher among women and more educated individuals.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Connecting through Crises: Opportunities and Challenges in Strengthening Informal Support Networks
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Capacity StrengtheningFood Systems
The panel discussed research findings and explored how donors, policymakers, and practitioners can strengthen informal support networks to build resilience in communities vulnerable to crises.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Application to Improve Precision: Understanding the anemia ecology
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Anemia
Anemia remains a critical global health problem that contributes to increased morbidity and mortality, particularly in women of reproductive age and preschool-age children. To address this challenge, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), through its project USAID-Advancing Nutrition, constituted the USAID-Advancing Nutrition Anemia Task Force (ATF).
Food Systems Toolkit
Guide on Gender Integration in Nutrition Programs
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This guide provides resources and examples for interventions that effectively integrate gender into nutrition programs.
Food Systems Toolkit
Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Food Systems Conceptual Framework Guidance Document
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This five-page document provides an overview of the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security's (RFS) conceptual framework.
Explains the conceptual framework’s purpose, components, and suggestions for how it can be used
Food Systems Toolkit
Focusing on Social Norms: A Practical Guide for Nutrition Programmers to Improve Women’s and Children’s Diets
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Food Systems
Food Systems
Social norms influence the meaning and value of food as well as roles and expectations. This guide is for nutrition program planners and implementers planning norm-responsive activities within nutrition-sensitive or nutrition-specific programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Suitability of Data-Collection Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This journal article summarizes results from a scoring exercise and expert survey to determine the suitability of data collection assessments for measuring market food environments in LMICs.
Food Systems Toolkit
Illustrative Behaviors to Improve Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Tool
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This tool offers an evidence-based list of illustrative nutrition-sensitive behaviors to help activity designers and implementers design more effective approaches to increase uptake and adoption of behaviors to improve nutrition outcomes using a food systems lens.
Food Systems Toolkit
Diet Assessment Decision Tool
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This tool makes it easier for practitioners and decision makers to understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake. Such information is critical to design, monitor, and evaluate efforts to improve diets. The decision tool provides existing data sources and data collection tools related to the different target groups and diet questions below.
Food Systems Toolkit
Food Processing for Improved Diets
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Food Systems
Food Systems
The relationship between food processing and diets is complex; expanding the production of processed foods may play a role in both supporting and hindering food systems in delivering safe, nutritious diets.
Food Systems Toolkit
Developing Resources to Support Policymakers to Take a Food Systems Approach to Policymaking
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Food Systems
Food Systems
There are increasing calls to take a food systems approach to food and nutrition policy; however, it is often unclear how policymakers can adopt this approach and adapt it to their particular context. R4D and the Centre for Food Policy at City at University of London developed an evidence review and four technical briefs to respond to this challenge.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Engaging Youth in Food Systems for Improved Nutrition Outcomes: Concept Note
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionBehavior Change for NutritionFood Systems
This concept note describes evidence and opportunities for programmatic approaches to engage young people in food systems activities for improved diet and nutrition outcomes.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Technical Guidance Brief Working within the Food System: Gender Considerations for Achieving Improved Diets
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This brief is part of a series of technical briefs that provide guidance for developing and implementing multi-sectoral nutrition programming across agriculture and food systems in support of the U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy and the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID’s) plan under the strategy.
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.
Food Systems Toolkit
Diet Assessment Decision Tool
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Food Systems
Food Systems
This tool makes it easier for practitioners and decision makers to understand dietary patterns and nutrient intake. Such information is critical to design, monitor, and evaluate efforts to improve diets. The decision tool provides existing data sources and data collection tools related to five different target groups.