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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Government Global Nutrition Coordination Plan 2021–2026
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
This interagency effort works to strengthen the impact of diverse nutrition investments across the government through better communication and collaboration and by linking research to program implementation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Maternal Nutrition: Preventing Malnutrition in Women and Girls
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Adolescent NutritionBreastfeedingFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle, especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding. USAID investments seek to protect nutrition throughout the life cycle to ensure that all women and children are well-nourished and can live healthy and productive lives. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition at USAID: A Legacy of Impact and Progress
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Adolescent NutritionEconomic GrowthMaternal Nutrition
USAID and its partners work with countries to provide people with skills, tools, and resources to improve their families’ health, diets, and nutrition, especially early in life. This is a video.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Agricultural Extension and Rural Advisory Services: What Have We Learned? What’s Next?
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Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The “best-fit” framework focuses on extension service characteristics that affect performance, including governance structures and funding, organizational and management capacities and cultures, methods, and community engagement. All of these are affected by the policy environment, agroecological conditions, and farming-system heterogeneity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Africa Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition
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COVID-19Food SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient Interventions
Increasing numbers of Africans experience hunger and suffer widespread micronutrient deficiencies; overweight and obesity are significant public health concerns as well. A common vision, strong political leadership, and effective cross-sectoral collaboration, are essential to identify and implement sustainable solutions that transform agrifood systems to deliver healthy, affordable diets.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Advancing Nutrition Niger Fact Sheet
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This one-page fact sheet describes USAID Advancing Nutrition's support to the government of Niger as it works to reduce malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies by addressing the prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age (WRA) and adolescents, as well as vitamin A deficiency among children under 5. A version of this document is available in French.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Nutrition at USAID: A Legacy of Impact and Progress
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Good nutrition is critical to achieving global development goals.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Maternal Nutrition: Preventing Malnutrition in Women and Girls
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
Women and girls have unique nutritional requirements throughout the life cycle—especially during adolescence, before and during pregnancy, and while breastfeeding.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food and Youth: What I Have Learned from Young People and Their Desire to Fix the Food Systems They Live In
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Adolescent Nutrition
UNICEF’s executive director and youth representatives discuss young people’s struggles with their food choices and food environments, share how young people are contributing to the transformation of global and local food systems, and offer concrete next steps to ensure that children and young people are at the center of discussions about food systems transformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
We Can All Become Food Heroes
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Students from six countries made a #FoodHeroes music video to discuss how young people can take action to make agri-food systems more sustainable. Their goal is to encourage youth to be change-makers and advocates for a hunger-free and sustainable world.
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The Power of Small Fish to Nourish Women and Children
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Economic GrowthFood SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Dr. Thilsted shares insights about nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. She discusses challenges for addressing nutritional needs of infants, young children, and pregnant and lactating women and shares how she engages with agriculture, food security, and food systems colleagues.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reviewing the UN Food Systems Summit with Agnes Kalibata
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Food Security
In her role as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata discusses outcomes of the UN Food Systems Summit, explains key issues affecting food systems, and discusses criticism of the Summit. She evaluates the United States’ $10 billion commitment to food security and describes what food security leadership should look like in the future. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrient Profiling: Designing a Healthier Future for Global Benefit
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Micronutrient Interventions
Nutrient profiling models have the potential to address stunting and micronutrient deficiencies. Researchers and programmers should consider all forms of malnutrition, including inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals, the lack of high quality protein intakes, and overweight and obesity.
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In the Interest of Every Woman’s Health and Nutrition
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19GenderMaternal Nutrition
Critical gaps in programming tools to improve women’s diets throughout the life cycle remain.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Safety for Mothers and Children
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Food SafetyWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Toxins and germs that come from food, improper food preparation, and poor storage are harmful to the health of children and pregnant women. Cooking food at a safe temperature, boiling water, washing hands with soap, and enforcing food safety rules saves lives.
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Climate Crisis and Nutrition: Examples from Niger
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Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Maternal Nutrition
USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker describes the Wadata program, which provides hands-on training in natural resource management, nutrition, food preparation with local ingredients, financial literacy, and interpersonal communication.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Acting on the Call
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Adolescent NutritionMaternal Nutrition
The annual Acting on the Call report continues to highlight progress toward a shared vision and commitment to preventing child and maternal deaths.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Exemplars Data Explorer
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BreastfeedingHIVInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Micronutrient InterventionsWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Users can create and share custom visualizations to interpret data related to stunting and wasting, exclusive breastfeeding, micronutrient supplementation, and other health topics.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Risks of BMS Products, Baby Feeding Cues, and Newborns’ Nine Instinctive Stages
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Breastfeeding
Materials focus on the risk of bottles, pacifiers, and formula to breastfeeding and introduce baby feeding cues and nine instinctive stages to breastfeeding. Infographics are available in Burmese, English, and Vietnamese while videos are available in English and Vietnamese.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
USAID Food Fortification: Supporting Productive and Prosperous Futures
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Adolescent NutritionFood Security
This video shows how USAID has supported 34 countries around the world with food fortification to ensure families can access essential nutrients during times of crises to protect the health of future generations.