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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementation and Scale-Up of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of What Works, What Doesn't Work and Why
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Priorities to enhance the success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs in reducing undernutrition include ensuring appropriateness and acceptability based on context knowledge; strengthening local structures and community empowerment; increasing resilience; and ensuring project flexibility, supportive policy, and governance.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seat at the Table: A Devex Dish Event
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Food Systems
Food Security
Discussions include the role of foreign policy in ending global malnutrition, effective financial investment in food systems reform, the relationship between food systems reform and climate change, and the importance of understanding the links between conflict and food security. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Promoting Nutrition-Sensitive Innovation across the Food System: Introduction to the Work of the New Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Security
Speakers discuss the Innovation Lab’s research and capacity strengthening agenda and how it plans to support the broader objectives of USAID and the Feed the Future initiative. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Tech and Climate-Smart Agriculture
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Food Systems
Food Security
Speakers discuss the role of advanced technology in promoting climate-smart agriculture, achieving goals under the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate and the U.S. Methane Emissions Reduction Action Plan, and addressing food security in the United States and globally. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Strengthening Policy and Research for Food System Transformation in Nepal
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Food Systems
Food Security
Engaging policy stakeholders beyond agricultural production systems; collaborating with credible local partners; and developing national, provincial, and local capacities for various subsectors of the food system are critical. National policymaking institutions and think tanks should drive identification of policy and research priorities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How a Comprehensive Food Policy Improved Child and Adolescent Diets at School in Chile
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
While the school environment provides an opportunity to improve health and nutritional well-being, complementary regulations in other environments may reduce partial compensatory behavior and influence overall child and adolescent diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Report on the State of Dietary Data
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Food Systems
Food Security
This report analyzes key characteristics and trends of dietary surveys over time, includes country stories on dietary survey initiation, implementation, and data use, and provides data visualizations to highlight the type of information dietary data can provide for policy makers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Freshwater Aquaculture is More Important for Food Security than Previously Understood
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Food Systems
Food Security
Balanced approaches to science, policy, and investment that prioritize freshwater aquaculture development in addition to mariculture contribute more to global food security than those favoring mariculture alone.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Conceptualising and Assessing Food Affordability
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Food Systems
Food Security
Affordability measures should incorporate a portion of savings, include all income sources, and consider reallocating funds spent on less healthy foods to healthier foods. Introducing interventions to change perceptions about the values of foods, reducing the scarcity mindset, and enhancing access to financial institutions could improve nutritious food affordability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Priority Micronutrient Density in Foods
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
Top sources of priority micronutrients include organs, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, bivalves, crustaceans, goat, beef, eggs, milk, canned fish with bones, mutton, and lamb. Cheese, goat milk, and pork are also good sources, followed by yogurt, fresh fish, pulses, teff, and canned fish without bones.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Parents’ Perceptions of Children’s Exposure to Unhealthy Food Marketing: A Narrative Review of the Literature
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
Increasing awareness among parents and caregivers to the high levels and harmful effects of children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing may build support for policy change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Drivers of Food Acquisition Practices in the Food Environment of Peri-Urban Hyderabad, India: A Qualitative Investigation
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Findings from a study investigating food acquisition practices in Hyderabad, India, revealed a need for targeted interventions in external and personal food environments to improve diets, nutrition, and health.
Food Systems Toolkit
USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide: Supporting Food Fortification at a Country Level and on a Global Scale
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Food Systems
Large-scale food fortification (LSFF) has been shown to be a cost-effective approach to provide essential vitamins and minerals to households that are unable to access a diverse, healthy diet.
Food Systems Toolkit
Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool
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Food Systems
The Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool (GIFT) is an online platform that includes regularly updated data food safety and nutrition data from around the world. You can visit the platform to access quantitative food consumption data from national and local level surveys, food based indicators, and microdata, which can be downloaded for further analysis.
Food Systems Toolkit
DQQ Tools and Data
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Food Systems
The Global Diet Quality project developed the Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ), a standardized, easy-to-use, 5-minute survey for collecting comparable food group consumption data. You can visit their website to access the DQQ and other tools to monitor trends and compare diet quality in and across countries and sectors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable Land Use: Role of Soil for Sustainable Food Systems: A Food and Agriculture Transatlantic Dialogue
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Global Forum for Food and Agriculture report emphasizes the need to minimize soil degradation and restore degraded soils, and highlights the critical role that soils can play as carbon sinks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Empowering for Success: Lessons in Supporting Women-Led Agribusinesses
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Food Systems
COVID-19Economic GrowthGender
Speakers discuss how the Accelerating Women’s Entrepreneurship award in 2018 and the Growing Women’s Entrepreneurship award in 2019 and 2020 support entrepreneurs and their businesses—and how recipients continue to leverage tools and resources developed as part of their awards. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Advancing Food Systems Transformation: Dialogue between German Development Cooperation and CGIAR
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Food Systems
Food Security
Speakers discuss the importance of international food systems research and the science–policy interface for advancing key actions for agriculture, food systems, and food security strategy and initiatives. They also identify joint priorities, opportunities, and entry points for collaboration. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A Decade of the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI): Lessons from Using Empowerment Metrics
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Food Systems
Gender
Using the WEAI, index-based metrics are used to track progress toward women’s empowerment and gender equality in the agriculture sector. Speakers discuss the evolution of the tool, share findings from studies using the metrics, and reflect on what has been accomplished by applying the index in diverse contexts. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification Programming Guide: Supporting Food Fortification at a Country Level and on a Global Scale
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Food Systems
COVID-19Micronutrient Interventions
The guide helps USAID Bureaus, Missions, and development partners assess specific needs and strategic opportunities to design, implement, monitor and evaluate, and adjust programming to local contexts. It supports progress toward USAID’s vision for sustainable, large-scale food fortification that improves access to adequate and affordable diets.