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Nutritious Agriculture by Design: A Tool for Program Design
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This tool is designed for agricultural projects designers worldwide to narrow the gap between the goal of raising income and productivity and the goal of improving nutrition. The starting point for the tool is specific interventions to strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages or interventions that could be directed to this end.
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Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security of women, children, and other vulnerable groups. It offers examples of what works and what does not and recommends design strategies that can increase nutritional benefits.
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Nutrition and Food Security Impacts of Agriculture Projects: A Review of Experience
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This document summarizes the Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project's review of more than 30 years of studies examining food security and nutrition impacts of agricultural projects in low-income countries. Findings revealed that it is possible to anticipate food security and nutrition impacts and that agricultural projects can be oriented in ways that maximize positive outcomes.
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Manual for Integrating Gender and Nutrition Approaches when Working with Farmers Engaged in Markets (September 2016)
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This manual has been designed for use by government, private, and nongovernmental extension providers and rural development practitioners who will be planning and implementing village-level agricultural interventions to strengthen their capacity to integrate gender and nutrition sensitivity for men and women farmer groups engaged in markets.
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Mainstreaming Agriculture in Nutrition: Lessons Learned from Two Projects that Integrated Agricultural Interventions and Nutrition in Bangladesh
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This study reviewed two poultry projects in Bangladesh and documented lessons learned, gaps, and recommendations for integrating nutrition in agricultural interventions and delivering nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
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Increasing Nutrition Sensitivity of Value Chains: A Review of Two Feed the Future Projects in Guatemala
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project conducted qualitative research to learn how agricultural market development activities could increase the nutrition-sensitivity of specific commodity value chains in Guatemala.
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Guidelines for Integrating Nutrition into Agriculture Enterprise Mixes in Uganda: Sensitization/Orientation of District Production Staff – Facilitator’s Guide
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This orientation document was developed to support facilitators and trainers when they introduce the Guidelines for Integrating Nutrition into Agriculture Enterprise Mixes in Uganda to agricultural extension officers and community development workers.
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Guidelines for Integrating Nutrition into Agriculture Enterprise Mixes
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The overall goal of these guidelines is to strengthen the contribution of agriculture interventions to improve household food and nutrition security in Uganda. The primary users of these guidelines are agriculture officers and their agents, as well as community development workers, all of whom have a critical role to play in guiding the enterprise selection process.
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Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance on Nutrition
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This document is meant to helps missions design new and follow-on integrated programming that incorporates nutrition objectives and technical approaches to optimize nutrition outcomes. The U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy presents an integrated approach to combating the root causes of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
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Farmer Nutrition School Session Guide
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project developed this guide to help community members and community groups to improve their technical understanding of vegetable, poultry, and fish farming, with the ultimate goal of increasing adoption of nutrition and hygiene practices for improved health.
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Farmer Nutrition School Flashcards
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project developed the Farmer Nutrition School Session Guide to help community members and community groups to improve their technical understanding of vegetable, poultry, and fish farming, with the ultimate goal of increasing adoption of nutrition and hygiene practices for improved health.
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Literature Review on Effective Food Hygiene Interventions for Households in Developing Countries
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Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
In response to increased awareness of foodborne disease in developing countries, the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) Project conducted a literature review to investigate how donors, partners, and programs can reduce this burden at the household level.
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Zambia: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Practice: Review of Approaches and Experience in Three Development Activities
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Food Systems
Food Security
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project, together with select nongovernmental organizations operating in Zambia, conducted a technical review of three agriculture and food security activities that have documented results in nutrition-sensitive agriculture.
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TOPS Review of Promising Practices in Food for Peace Development Food Assistance Projects
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Food Systems
Food Security
The Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program team of technical specialists conducted a review of final evaluation reports from Food for Peace‐funded development food assistance projects (formerly referred to as Multi‐Year Assistance Projects or Development Assistance Projects) in order to identify promising practices in effective food security programming.
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Perceived Challenges to Smallholder Agriculture and Implications for Household Food Security and Nutrition in Two Districts of Uganda
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Food Systems
Food Security
This report presents findings from a qualitative research study undertaken by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) to strengthen understanding of the household-level dynamics between smallholder agriculture, food security, and nutrition outcomes in two districts of Uganda.
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National Policies and Plans to Address the Dual Burden of Malnutrition
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Food Systems
Food Security
The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) Project examined the state of existing policies on actions that address many types of malnutrition (including overweight and obesity in addition to undernutrition) in 29 countries. The countries selected were those listed as high priority for maternal and child health and nutrition by the U.S.
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Mid-Term Evaluation for Health, Agriculture and Nutrition Development for Sustainability (HANDS)
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Food Systems
Food Security
This evaluation is intended to be a formative assessment of the Health, Agriculture and Nutrition Development for Sustainability (HANDS) program progress by November 2012. The evaluation was conducted to assess progress during the first 30 months of program implementation.
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Maternal dietary diversity and the implications for children’s diets in the context of food security
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Food Systems
Food Security
This technical brief describes findings from a study by the Infant and Young Child Nutrition Project to evaluate the relationship of maternal dietary diversity to children’s dietary intake in three developing countries in different regions.
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Farmer Nutrition School Advocacy Guide wtih Recommendations for Adaptation
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
In early 2012, the Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project began to develop a model for improving nutrition and food security that could be quickly scaled up across its Feed the Future zone of influence along the coastal belt of Bangladesh. This guide is meant to accompany and supplement the broader collection of materials produced for the…
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Integrating Household Nutrition and Food Security Objectives into Proposed Agriculture Projects: Illustrative Guidance
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Food Systems
Food Security
This guidance helps agriculture project designers build nutrition and food security objectives into their projects rather than leave positive impacts to chance. By following this guidance during the initial planning stages, project designers can enhance nutritional impact and food security of vulnerable groups.