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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.
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.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Are Healthy Diets Affordable? Using New Data on Retail Prices and Diet Costs to Guide Agricultural and Food Policy
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Food Systems
Food Security
With a focus on diet costs and affordability, speakers discuss data sources and methods for policy-relevant analyses, implications of global variations, and food policy research and monitoring priorities. They advocate for policy analyses to inform agrifood systems transformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionAnemiaBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityGenderGrowth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Governments need to assess how they can reallocate existing public budgets to be more cost-effective and efficient to reduce the cost of nutritious foods and equitably increase the availability and affordability of healthy diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Dietary Diversity: Evaluating a Novel Cell Phone Method to Extend the Reference Period without Increasing the Cognitive Burden on Respondents in Ethiopia
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Collecting dietary diversity data through high-frequency phone call surveys rather than through a one-time, in-person survey produced a lower household dietary diversity score but a higher women’s dietary diversity score, suggesting that the recall period impacts overreporting and underreporting food consumption.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
From Food Price Crisis to an Equitable Food System
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityGenderNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Well-designed emergency cash and food distribution programs, social safety nets, school food programs, integrated nutrition interventions, and universal health care can improve outcomes for those facing food insecurity and malnutrition. These programs can also improve gender equality and climate change resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Impact of Climate Change on Food Systems, Diet Quality, Nutrition, and Health Outcomes: A Narrative Review
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector EngagementResilience
Sustainable, resilient food systems and climate-smart agriculture are needed to ensure diverse, nutritious diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Making the Most of Existing Research: An Evidence Gap Map of the Effects of Food Systems Interventions in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
AnemiaFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The most common interventions to address malnutrition included providing supplements, fortification, food, nutrition classes, and peer support and counseling. Anthropometry, micronutrient status, and diet quality and adequacy were the most common outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Impacts of Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods on the Maternal-Child Health: A Systematic Review
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
Consuming large quantities of ultra-processed food had negative impacts on women’s health during pregnancy and lactat
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Taking a Food Systems Approach to Policymaking: A Resource for Policymakers
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingFood SafetyGender
Resources explore potential entry points and ways to identify and engage relevant stakeholders and provide practical ideas to improve food systems’ ability to improve nutrition and health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Status of Digital Agriculture in 47 Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive AgriculturePrivate-Sector Engagement
Agriculture digitalization is important to leverage the benefits of digital technologies to transform societies, improve livelihoods, and eradicate poverty. The report identifies countries’ current status by assessing infrastructure, digital penetration, policies and regulations, the business environment, human capital, and agro-innovation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Safe and Nutritious Food: Fortifying Systems to Deliver at Scale
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Food Systems
Complementary FeedingFood SafetyFood SecurityMicronutrient InterventionsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Delivering nutritious and safe food requires government institutions with strong food regulatory and enforcement capacity to establish evidence-based standards and enable compliance, writes USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker. The private sector needs greater capacity, commitment, and access to financing.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Political Economy of Agri-Nutrition: What’s Politics Got to Do with Nutrients?
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Food Systems
Food SecurityGenderMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Research and policy agendas should focus on who and what is given space in nutrition debates, how power is exercised, knowledge of alternative and sustainable food systems, and incorporating equality issues in the design and evaluation of interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Participation Intensity in a Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Intervention
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Food Systems
GenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In a study assessing program delivery, participation intensity was highest among older and highly educated participants from moderate wealth households and associated with better recall of topics discussed and greater knowledge of key methods. Associations were most significant for outcomes within individual decision-making ability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Mothers' Milk Contributes Almost $4 Trillion to the Global Economy—But Its Value Has Never Been Considered. A New Tool Now Makes That Possible
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingEconomic Growth
The tool uses existing data to estimate the value of breastmilk. The accompanying webinar and brief advocate for developing paid maternity leave and workplace policies that support breastfeeding, ending exploitative marketing of commercial formula milk, and improving access to skilled counseling.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guideline: Fortification of Wheat Flour with Vitamins and Minerals as a Public Health Strategy
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Food Systems
GenderMicronutrient Interventions
This guideline provides evidence-informed and locally adaptable recommendations on the fortification of wheat flour with vitamins and minerals to improve micronutrient status. Recommendations are helpful for the design, implementation, and scaling of nutrition actions and are particularly relevant to food-fortification programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Farm-Level Production Diversity and Child and Adolescent Nutrition in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multicountry, Longitudinal Study
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Further farm-level diversification is not a suitable general strategy to improve child and adolescent nutrition, but it may be useful in some contexts. Livestock production shows some promise for improving child and adolescent nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Learning Lab: Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: Practical Lessons from Private Sector Marketing
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Food Systems
Private-Sector Engagement
Proven marketing techniques can increase the impact of social and behavior change activities to create demand for healthy diets and foods. This session helps participants identify and apply techniques to generate demand. This is a webinar.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Food Processing for Improved Diets
Publication Date:
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.