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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Q&A: The Manufacture of Breastmilk Substitute Products is Pumping Tons of CO2 into the Atmosphere
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Food Systems
BreastfeedingEmergency NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The speaker discusses the environmental impacts of breastmilk substitutes and the need for governments to regulate misleading marketing messages, provide sufficient paid leave, and ensure better maternity care to support breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Safety: A Pillar of Food Security
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Food Systems
Food SafetyFood Security
Fresh vegetables and animal products are highly nutritious but highly susceptible to contamination. Achieving secure food systems requires understanding the complex relationships between nutrition and food safety as key components to the food security pillars of availability, utilization, and access.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Viewpoint: The Case for a Six-Dimensional Food Security Framework
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Food Systems
Food Security
This article makes the case for including agency and sustainability in policy frameworks examining food security in addition to availability, access, utilization, and stability. The impact of widening food system inequalities and growing awareness of the connections between ecological and food systems highlight the importance of these dimensions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reshaping Food Policy and Governance to Incentivize and Empower Disadvantaged Groups for Improving Nutrition
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food Security
To end malnutrition in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, multiple sectors—including health, agriculture, social protection, education, and infrastructure—must collaborate more effectively to develop and implement food and nutrition policies.
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
Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Key areas for attention to enhance the success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs include learning from past successes and failures, strengthening local structures, and empowering communities and building resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Do Not Transform Food Systems on the Backs of the Rural Poor
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food Security
Many food system transformation approaches do not explicitly include measures to ensure that envisioned changes will improve the livelihoods of low-income people living in rural areas. Such modeling risks transforming food systems to reach environmental and nutritional objectives without considering unintended consequences for this population.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Decisions to Start, Strengthen, and Sustain Food Fortification Programs: An Application of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Evidence to Decision (EtD) Framework in Nigeria
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Food Systems
Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient Interventions
Gaps in program design and implementation constrain the impact of food fortification. Using the GRADE EtD framework can strengthen the decision-making processes for health systems and public health, as well as improve program design, delivery, and health impacts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Zinc Fortification Country Briefs: Burkina Faso, and Senegal
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
Briefs provide the rationale for zinc fortification, describe zinc deficiency and food fortification efforts, and outline actions that governments and supporting partners can take to remedy zinc deficiency through fortification.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
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
Food SystemsMicronutrient Interventions
This guide is centered on a results framework and serves as a tool for USAID Bureaus, Missions and development partners across government, the private sector and civil society to assess their specific needs and strategic opportunities, to design, implement, monitor and evaluate, and adjust large-scale food fortification programming for countries based on their local context.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Unleashing the Full Power of Large-Scale Food Fortification: A Renewed Commitment
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Food Systems
Micronutrient Interventions
While large-scale food fortification has a record of nearly eliminating debilitating vitamin and mineral deficiencies, it is underused in ending preventable diseases and death. Speakers discuss new efforts to accelerate progress and catalyze momentum and proof-of-impact through targeted investment and political leadership. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Safety: A Foundation for Nutrition and Growth
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Food Systems
Food Safety
Speakers discuss the multi-sectoral requirements to keep food safe, with a focus on the informal markets where consumers source their diets. They discuss specific causal pathways in health and physiology, consumer behavior, supply chains and markets, and policy and regulation domains through which food safety and nutrition are linked.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exploring the Use of the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide
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Food Systems
Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers provide an overview of the Community of Practice and its goals, discuss how it is using the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide to facilitate workshops targeting agriculture and economic growth activities that have a nutrition objective, and explain how others can join. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Counting the True Cost: How Understanding the Real Cost of Food Can Improve Nutrition for All
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Food Systems
Food SecurityMicronutrient Interventions
Food systems approaches such as True Cost and Value Accounting provide holistic assessments of the consequences and benefits of different food and nutrition interventions and evidence to improve nutrition strategies and policies. This webinar was a Nutrition for Growth Summit Side Event.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Diet Quality Project
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Food Systems
Micronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
The Diet Quality Questionnaire captures dietary adequacy and dietary risk factors for noncommunicable diseases and enables monitoring of trends and comparisons across demographics. The Global Diet Quality Project enables the collection of comparable population-level dietary data within and across countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Diet Quality Score is Inversely Associated with Nutrient Inadequacy, Low Midupper Arm Circumference, and Anemia in Rural Adults in Ten Sub-Saharan African Countries
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Food Systems
Researchers evaluated the comparative performance of the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) against other diet metrics to capture nutrient adequacy and undernutrition. The GDQS performed comparably with the Minimum Dietary Diversity–Women indicator in capturing adequacy outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Integrating Nutrition and Food Safety in Food Systems Policy and Programming
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Food Systems
Food Safety
Malnutrition and foodborne disease are interrelated in terms of physiology, human behavior, and policy and have large public health and economic costs. While these two issues are often addressed separately in policy, programs, and research, a more integrated approach to address them within the food system is needed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Seasonal Variation in Maternal Dietary Diversity is Reduced by Small-Scale Irrigation Practices: A Longitudinal Study
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Food Systems
Maternal Nutrition
In observed areas of rural Ethiopia, where women experienced high seasonal variation in their diets and energy intakes, their dietary diversity was low. This could be partly offset by adopting irrigation practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Suitability of Data Collection Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Systems
This peer-reviewed publication describes a study conducted by USAID Advancing Nutrition to identify assessments (methods, tools, and metrics) suitable for evaluating market food environments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Findings highlight suitable assessments and recommended adaptations to existing assessments to strengthen market food environment evaluation in LMICs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
World Food Day 2021
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Food Systems
Food Security
The platform hosts videos, highlights food heroes, and describes World Food Day events. It includes a call to action for all elements of agri-food systems to collaborate more fairly, sustainably, and inclusively.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nourishing Food Systems: The Interdependency Between Agriculture and Nutrition
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Agriculture and nutrition are often siloed in terms of policy, field implementation, and economic impact. Speakers explored the interdependence between agriculture and nutrition, current challenges, and models of progress. This is a webinar.