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USAID Advancing Nutrition is working to sustain improved diets and support the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security goals of reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty. Diet quality is a key contributor to nutrition and health outcomes throughout the world, with suboptimal diets responsible for more than 10 million deaths per year. To improve diets, we partner with governments, communities, and the private sector to improve the supply of and demand for diverse, safe, and nutritious foods among individuals and communities. We also work with researchers and implementers to build evidence on how food systems can contribute to improved diets and nutrition, particularly for vulnerable populations.

Our work

  • Aligns stakeholders' visions around food systems
  • Measures components of the food environment toward understanding their ability to support improved diets
  • Strengthens governments’ capacity for effective programming 
  • Engages the private sector and policy makers to strengthen food systems for nutrition
  • Translates evidence into recommended actions.

Featured Resources

 
A selection of resources published by USAID Advancing Nutrition

Needs Assessment and Design Methodology to Guide Large-Scale Food Fortification and Broader Programming to Improve Diets: Tools 1, 2, and 3 in the LSFF Methodology Series

Guideline/Guidance Nigeria Zambia English
The LSFF Operational Overview describes the purpose and target audience for tools to assess diets, markets, and diet cost and affordability, and summarizes the key steps in the methodology, including a decision tree on how to select existing data to conduct a needs assessment and

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Generating Demand for Healthy Diets: A Guide to Social Marketing in Nutrition

Guideline/Guidance Global English
This guide supports nutrition program planners by defining, describing, and explaining the process of developing high-quality programs to market healthy diets.

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Assessing Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries—Unlocking the Potential to Improve Diets, Nutrition, and Health Outcomes

Presentation/Poster Global English
To guide programs improving diets, USAID Advancing Nutrition identified possible food environment interventions for healthy diets across diverse contexts. This poster was presented at the 22nd International Congress of Nutrition in December 2022.

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Review of Methods to Assess Diets, Markets, and Cost of an Adequate Diet

Technical Report Global English
This report describes the findings from a literature review USAID Advancing Nutrition conducted to identify a methodology to assess diets, markets, and cost of an adequate diet for the USAID Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) Programming Guide (USAID 2022) and broader USAID programming to impr

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News

USAID Advancing Nutrition Closes in Uganda with a Celebration of Milestones Reached to Reduce Micronutrient Deficiencies through Large-Scale Food Fortification

From 2021-2023, USAID Advancing Nutrition supported the Government of Uganda in advancing the country’s food fortification program.
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