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USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Learning from the USAID Nutrition Innovation Lab Partnerships
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
USAID Advancing Nutrition engaged in a learning activity with the USAID Nutrition Innovation Lab to document experiences on partnering and develop recommendations on how innovation labs can partner to improve nutrition outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Stakeholder Community Meeting: Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition, and Water Security
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Food Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
COVID-19 will drive 70–100 million people into poverty and 80–130 million into chronic hunger. These impacts will persist beyond 2021, the number of malnourished children will increase, and access to water and sanitation services will decrease.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Safeguarding Progress towards Improved Nutrition During the COVID-19 Pandemic: USAID Partner Experiences
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Food SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityResilience
USAID implementing partners from several countries in Africa and Asia described country-specific efforts to respond to shocks due to COVID-19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
UNSCN Nutrition 45: Nutrition in a Digital World
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Food SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Food Security
Digital technologies to increase sustainable healthy diets and progressively realize the right to adequate food are powerful but may also have adverse impacts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Resilience and Food Security COVID-19 Learning Hub
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Nutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This Learning Hub disseminates lessons learned about how to prevent widespread hunger, poverty, malnutrition, and water insecurity. It also provides guidance about how to mitigate and respond to the pandemic’s impacts through agriculture, nutrition, resilience, and water security, sanitation, and hygiene policy and programming.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Responding to COVID-19’s Impact on Resilience and Food Security
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
The U.S. Agency for International Development predicts that 148 million additional people may fall into extreme poverty and that emergency food assistance needs will increase by 25% due to COVID-19.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Nutrition Crisis Hidden Within the Pandemic
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Food Systems
Emergency NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
COVID-19 impacts income and affordable nutritious food, and many food producers and sellers are struggling to survive. Health systems and social safety nets are overwhelmed, many are reluctant to seek health care, and misinformation hinders breastfeeding. While demand for humanitarian assistance grows, safe delivery is a challenge.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Nutrition Resources
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
BreastfeedingCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SafetyFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
These resources focus on multi-sectoral nutrition programming in the context of COVID-19. Research and reports provide guidance about nutrition in humanitarian contexts, monitoring, evaluation and learning, safe breastfeeding practices for COVID-19 positive women, social and behavior change for nutrition in context of COVID-19, and food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
CGIAR COVID-19 Hub
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Food Systems
COVID-19Food SafetyFood SecurityResilience
This collection captures research about the threats to health systems, food security, local businesses, national economies, and reaching Sustainable Development Goals; and harnesses knowledge for emergency response, recovery, and resilience.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fisheries and Policy Implications for Human Nutrition
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Food Systems
Food SecurityMicronutrient Interventions
Fisheries can address malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies with critical nutrients, such as fatty acids, zinc, iron, calcium, and vitamins. Overfishing, climate change, and international trade reduce local availability of nutritious and affordable fish in low income countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Defining Diet Quality: A Synthesis of Dietary Quality Metrics and Their Validity for the Double Burden of Malnutrition
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Food SafetyMaternal Nutrition
Addressing the double burden of malnutrition requires attention to diet-related maternal and child health (MCH) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs). Identifying a unified global dietary quality metric that can measure the relative contributions of MCH and NCD to malnutrition would help policy and programmatic decision-making.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Household Food Insecurity and Early Childhood Development: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood Systems
Food Security
Significant associations exist between household food insecurity and several early childhood development domains, including developmental risk, vocabulary skills, and math skills; while there are marginal associations with school readiness, reading, and motor development.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Foreword: Global Nutrition Report in the Context of COVID-19
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
COVID-19Economic GrowthFood SecurityResilience
Inequality is a critical driver of malnutrition, particularly in the context of the global pandemic. COVID-19 disproportionally affects undernourished populations, reveals healthcare inequalities, and places additional stress on already vulnerable food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
How the pandemic is affecting funding for nutrition
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Nutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood Systems
COVID-19Economic Growth
COVID-19 is placing additional strain on nutrition programs’ limited resources. This blog post identifies three key trends in nutrition financing in the current context including increasing rates of malnutrition, challenges to social sector funding, and an unfavorable outlook for nutrition-specific aid.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
COVID-19 Pandemic and Mitigation Strategies: Implications for Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition
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Food Systems
WastingCOVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
COVID-19 has created profound challenges for maternal and child nutrition. This review urges governments, donors, and others to rely on data for decision-making as they prioritize investments to strengthen food supply chains, respond to acute food shortages, improve access to health care, and provide social safety net programs for the most vulnerable.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Reverberating Impact of COVID-19 on Nutrition
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementNutrition and Health SystemsNutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
COVID-19
By disrupting systems that provide nutritious food and nutrition interventions, COVID-19 is expected to critically damage the nutrition of vulnerable groups. When children are not able to reach their full potential due to poor nutrition early in their lives, we risk losing an entire generation.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Early Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: A Modelling Study
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
COVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
The authors of this study estimate maternal and child deaths that may result as an indirect consequence of COVID-19 and the disruption the pandemic may cause to health systems and the food supply.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
2020 Global Nutrition Report
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
WastingEconomic Growth
With a focus on promoting equality in food and health systems, this year’s report calls on governments, businesses, and civil society to act now to mainstream nutrition into food and health systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Food Insecurity in the Era of COVID-19: Practical Insights from Data Collection Activities in Four Global Contexts
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19
Panelists in this webinar shared how they selected and/or modified experience-based food security metrics for inclusion in household assessments carried out through mobile phones or online platforms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition: Resource List on Food Systems and Nutrition Responses
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Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
COVID-19Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
With the COVID-19 pandemic causing disruptions to food systems and food environments, a decline in optimal dietary practices could lead to serious impacts on nutritional status. To address this challenge, this curated list provides up-to-date information focused on nutrition and food systems related to COVID-19.