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Forest Garden Training Center Training Set
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Food Systems
Resilience
The Forest Garden Approach diversifies farming systems with trees and food crops that meet subsistence needs and market opportunities.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Tops ANRM Case Study: Micro-Irrigation And Horticulture Production In Karamoja
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Food Systems
Resilience
The Resiliency through Wealth, Agriculture, and Nutrition (RWANU) Program aims to reduce stunting and increase resiliency in the Southern Karamoja region in Uganda. This case study describes RWANU micro-irrigation activities and horticulture production programs in Karamoja, Uganda, to increase production and consumption of nutritious foods.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance Increased Sustainable Agricultural Productivity
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Food Systems
Resilience
This document provides an overview of how to best design and implement related approaches under the Global Food Security Strategy. The U.S. Government's Global Food Security Strategy presents an integrated approach to combating the root causes of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Global Food Security Strategy Technical Guidance on Diversifying Livelihoods, Resilience, and Pathways Out of Poverty
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Food Systems
Resilience
This document discusses how diversifying livelihoods strategies and risks on- and off-farm as well as in and outside the agriculture sector can contribute to a comprehensive risk management approach. 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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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide: Practical Guidance For Implementing Partners Webinar
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Food SystemsNutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
Applying nutrition-sensitive agriculture continues to challenge development practitioners all over the world. USAID Advancing Nutrition recently finalized the Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide—a facilitator’s guide with accompanying slides and handouts for a 3-day workshop for newly awarded USAID-funded agriculture projects.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Case Study on Adolescent Inclusion in the Care Group Approach - The Nigeria Experience
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Food Systems
Adolescent Nutrition
The overall objective of the case study was to describe the experience of adolescent girl inclusion in care groups, highlighting key learning points including barriers, boosters, and best practices.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Women's Empowerment Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the importance of the women's empowerment pathway to improve nutritional outcomes through agricultural livelihoods. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. The pathway…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Agricultural Income Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. The agricultural income pathway is not linear; the…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding the Food Production Pathway
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This brief focuses on the pathway from food production to better diets and nutrition, However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. In this brief, vignettes illustrate the potential pathways from…
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
Understanding and Applying Primary Pathways and Principles
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The pathways and principles explored in this brief provide a summary of the current state of knowledge of ways to use agriculture to improve nutrition. Broadly accepted among development partners, these concepts are based on the best evidence available from the literature on food security, health, and nutrition and are supported by the experiences of field practitioners, including those…
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Leveraging Agriculture for Nutritional Impact through the Feed the Future Initiative: A Landscape Analysis of Activities Across 19 Focus Countries
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
Between September 2012 and June 2013, SPRING conducted a landscape analysis of activities of the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future, in 19 focus countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the Caribbean. This exercise generated a total of 19 country profiles. Each provided a snapshot of the USAID Mission's activities and contexts in the particular…
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Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The SPRING Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Training Resource Package is a collection of our very best training work, including presentations, activities, handouts, and session guides. In this training resource package, you will find the building blocks for creating a nutrition-sensitive agriculture presentation or training program that reaches program leaders, managers, and other decision-makers
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
A User Guide to Context Assessment Tools for Linking Agriculture and Nutrition
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The aim of this guide is to support context assessment for project design, whether creating new or amending existing projects. It intends to strengthen the links between agricultural interventions and nutritional outcomes. The guide explains the basic steps of context assessment and presents a variety of primary data collection tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Implications of Three Major New Trials for the Effect of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene on Childhood Diarrhea and Stunting: A Consensus Statement
Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition in Humanitarian ContextsFood SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and LearningNutrition and Health SystemsSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
With the results from the SHINE and WASH Benefits trials demonstrating limited impact of basic water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) on childhood stunting, what role does WASH now play in multi-sectoral nutrition programming?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food Systems and Nutrition E-Consultation: Emerging Evidence and Research Opportunities
Food Systems
To help uncover research gaps in food systems and nutrition, Agrilinks, USAID Advancing Nutrition, and USAID’s Bureau for Food Security hosted an e-consultation in November 2019.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Changing Face of Malnutrition: The State of the World’s Children 2019
Food SystemsKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
This year, UNICEF’s flagship report focuses on children, food, and nutrition, providing new data and analysis on malnutrition and making recommendations for keeping food systems anchored in children’s rights.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Asia Food Challenge: Harvesting the Future
Food SystemsKnowledge Management
The authoring organizations of this report foresee significant changes to Asia’s food and agricultural landscapes, with food spending expected to increase by around 7 percent per year over the next decade.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food System Transformations: National Actions in a Globalized World
Food Systems
As global and regional events contribute to the rapid transformation of food systems in developing countries, country actors are playing an essential role in shaping the future of their own food systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The State of Food and Agriculture 2019: Moving Forward on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
Food Systems
In 2011, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimated that 30 percent of food is lost or wasted globally.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Guiding Principles for Sustainable Healthy Diets
Food Systems
To celebrate this year’s World Food Day, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization published this document to provide policy recommendations for food systems that are healthy, environmentally friendly, and culturally and economically sustainable.