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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Leadership Dialogue on Food Systems for People’s Nutrition and Health

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Knowledge Management Food Systems
This meeting report summaries a dialogue at the first United Nations Food Systems Stocktaking Moment in Rome.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 Implementation Plan

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Knowledge Management WastingBreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency Nutrition
The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act Implementation Plan presents priority technical areas in nutrition; the approach USAID will take to coordinate and collaborate internally and with priority countries, other federal agencies, and partners; and accountability mechanisms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Research Findings on Resilience & Social Cohesion in Burkina Faso and Niger

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Food Systems Food SecurityFood SystemsResilience
Deteriorating security impacts food security through loss of access to agricultural and pastoral production areas; disruption of economic activities or loss of livelihoods; reduced access to labor and agricultural inputs; and the closure or limited functioning of health services, schools, and markets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Global Evidence for Improving Resilience and Food Security: Findings from the REAPER Agriculture-Led Growth and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Evidence Gap Maps

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Food Systems WastingFood SecurityFood SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Implementing partners from the Resilience and Food Security for Programmatic Approaches project present findings from machine learning, comprehensive evidence reviews on agriculture-led growth and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and new mapping of resilience and water intermediate outcomes to higher-level development objectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Adapting Health Systems to Protect Children from the Impact of Climate Change Series

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Food Systems Child NutritionFood SystemsResilience
Speakers discuss UNICEF's report on the impacts of heat waves and possible interventions to protect child health, the Children’s Climate Risk Index, and protecting pregnant women and infants against heat stress.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The Rapid Rise in Domestic Value Chains of Nutrient-Dense Foods (Fruits, Vegetables, and Animal Products) in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Implications

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Food Systems Food Systems
Consumption of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables and animal products is substantial and growing; while product supply is also growing quickly, it is not much faster than population growth. In some countries, supply growth is driven without nongovernmental organization or company management or government subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The Climate-Nutrition Paradox and Unintended Consequences

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Food Systems Child NutritionFood SecurityFood SystemsGenderMaternal NutritionResilience
Programs must consider unintended consequences of introducing climate-smart agriculture to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented groups are not left more vulnerable to poor nutrition and food insecurity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Live and Diet

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Food Systems Food Systems
The Food4HealthyLife calculator shows how switching from the nutritionally poor Western diet to the “optimal diet,” which includes fish, fruits, and vegetables increased estimated life expectancy by 13 years when started at a young age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Consumer Demand, Food Safety, and Market Systems

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Food Systems Food SafetyFood SecurityFood SystemsGender
Willingness-to-pay data improve understanding of consumer preferences and contribute to the evaluation of market opportunities for food safety interventions and policy priorities. When consumer willingness to pay provides insufficient incentives for producers, government-driven policy changes may be required.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Pathways From Livestock to Improved Human Nutrition: Lessons Learned in East Africa

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Food Systems Food SystemsGender
Researchers recommendations include developing tools to fill measurement gaps, creating shorter versions of validated tools, using complexity-aware evaluation methods to capture the interconnected nature of livestock-to-nutrition pathways and shifting livelihoods, and analyzing pathways to better understand linkages.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Food Systems Transformation, Animal-Source Foods Consumption, Inequality, and Nutrition in Myanmar

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Food Systems Food SystemsNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Researchers found little change in the quantity of animal-source foods (ASF) consumed between 2010–2015 but substantial composition changes. They also found increasing rural–urban and income-linked inequality in quantities of ASF and associated nutrients consumed and declines in the adequacy of intake of several micronutrients due to the changing composition of ASF.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Giving Children the Best Start in Life: Resources, Experiences, and Lessons Learned from USAID Advancing Nutrition’s Work Integrating Nutrition, Responsive Care, and Early Learning

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Early Childhood Development Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers discuss why and how they developed the Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum and the results and lessons learned.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Putting a Price on Nurturing Care

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Early Childhood Development Gender
Recent research points to the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent approach that strengthens nurturing care to support early childhood development (ECD) from pregnancy through infancy. Future research should identify the ideal intervention dose and explore ECD and economic outcomes in different socioeconomic groups and among families with varying risk factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Pathways to Scale Up Early Childhood Programs: A Scoping Review of Reach Up and Care for Child Development

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Early Childhood Development
Evidence-based early childhood development (ECD) programs that strengthen parenting skills and promote early stimulation are critical investments to reduce intergenerational poverty. but program impact varies. Contextual factors such as infrastructure, social norms, and recipient demand and interest affect outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Strengthening the Capacity of Local Organizations for Nutrition Outcomes: Local Perspectives and Ways Forward

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Capacity Strengthening Child NutritionMaternal Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition developed and implemented a learning agenda to collect lessons learned from its support to local organizations. Speakers from Burkina Faso and Kenya share their perspectives on localization and discuss the future of locally-led development. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French and an accompanying slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Charting a Path Towards Local Capacity Strengthening: Systems and Tools for Mapping and Planning

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Capacity Strengthening
Speakers discuss tools that catalyze, assess, and monitor local organizational-level capacity strengthening as outlined in USAID’s Local Capacity Strengthening Policy. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

R4D Launches Two E-Learning Resources to Support Locally-Led Development

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Capacity Strengthening
This toolkit and interactive e-learning course provides instruction about collaborative learning methods and developing skills to effectively facilitate the process and introduce essential elements for successful Collaborative Learning Networks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Call to Action for Strengthening Nutrition Content in Pre-Service Training

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Capacity Strengthening Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Investing in pre-service training is an especially effective and sustainable approach to improving nutrition services at scale. However, it requires a collaborative effort by all stakeholders—government ministries, academic institutions, professional associations, funders, and technical experts—to ensure curricula prepare frontline health workers to deliver quality nutrition services.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Ethnicity, Information and Cooperation: Evidence from a Group-Based Nutrition Intervention

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Capacity Strengthening
Information retention was higher when delivered by someone lower in the ethnic hierarchy while individual contributions to group-owned kitchen gardens increased more when training was delivered by those higher in the hierarchy. Education, group cohesion, and perceived trainer ability also impacted knowledge and contributions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Comparing Delivery Channels to Promote Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh

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Capacity Strengthening GenderNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In Bangladesh, delivering nutrition content to couples through female nutrition workers and male agriculture extension workers increased nutrition knowledge, household and individual diet quality, dietary diversity, and women’s empowerment. Training men to deliver nutrition messages may offer opportunities to scale and promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture.