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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Agricultural Innovation for African Sustainability and Resilience
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Food Systems
Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
Participants met to identify priority actions for investments in agricultural research, development, extension, and the development of an enabling policy environment. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
World Food Day: Get Involved!
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Food SecurityNutrition Sensitive Agriculture
The call for action provides tips and actions that individuals, governments, private companies and corporations, schools, civil society, academia, and others can take to improve food production, nutrition, and the environment. The report is available in English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Viewpoint: Rigorous Monitoring Is Necessary to Guide Food System Transformation In the Countdown to the 2030 Global Goals
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Food Systems
Growth Monitoring and PromotionResilience
Authors propose a rigorous, science-based monitoring framework centered around diets, nutrition, and health; environment and climate; livelihoods, poverty, and equity; governance; and resilience and sustainability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
U.S. Government Global Food Security Strategy 2022–2026
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Food Systems
Adolescent NutritionCOVID-19Emergency NutritionFood SecurityInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
This updated strategy responds to the challenges of the moment. Priorities include collaborating with local partners to address challenges to inclusion by intentionally engaging all actors, working to address the effects of climate change on agriculture, and adopting practices to counter the negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Towards Food Systems Transformation—Five Paradigm Shifts for Healthy, Inclusive, and Sustainable Food Systems
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Food Systems
Food SecurityResilience
Avoiding trade-offs and building synergies among health and nutrition, inclusive livelihoods, environmental sustainability, and food system resilience requires fundamental paradigm shifts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Systematic Evidence and Gap Map of Research Linking Food Security and Nutrition to Mental Health
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Food Systems
Food Security
How food security and nutrition connect with mental health has been researched, but conclusions are difficult to draw given the breadth of literature. This map visualizes the extent and nature of analytical studies focusing on the relationship, guides further research, and solidifies strategic planning.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
FAO/WHO GIFT | Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool
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Food Systems
Food Safety
The tool provides food-based indicators focused on nutrition and food safety to support policymakers, program planners, nongovernmental organization staff, and other stakeholders in making informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Enhancing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Low- and Middle Income Countries Through a Food Systems Approach
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Food Systems
Food SecurityPrivate-Sector Engagement
This brief highlights the main constraints, opportunities, and leverage points to enhance food systems related to fruit and vegetable consumption, trade, processing, and production.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reverse Thinking: Taking a Healthy Diet Perspective Towards Food Systems Transformations
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Food Systems
Food Security
A healthy diet perspective is essential to ensure food systems focus on supplying nutritious foods and providing equitable access to healthy, sustainable, and culturally acceptable diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Environmental Performance of Blue Foods
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Food Systems
Food SecurityNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Fish and other aquatic foods (“blue foods”) can contribute to more sustainable diets, but comprehensive comparisons are limited because these foods are rarely included in environmental impact studies. The analysis identifies high-performing blue foods, highlights opportunities to improve environmental performance, and provides estimates to enable data-poor environmental assessments.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Power of Local Partnerships to Scale Nutrition Programs in India
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This blog by USAID Advancing Nutrition and WorldFish describes the success of a USAID-funded nutrition-sensitive aquaculture project implemented by WorldFish, USAID Advancing Nutrition reviewed documents from the project and interviewed WorldFish, USAID, and local partners in Odisha, India to better understand the project’s challenges, successes, and lessons learned.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
RFS Food Systems Conceptual Framework
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Food Systems
Food Security
USAID's Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) Food Systems Conceptual Framework articulates the agency's contribution to strengthening food systems and provides high-level operational guidance to RFS staff globally, in line with the overall strategy to build more resilient communities and sustainably reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The First Food-Systems: The Importance of Breastfeeding in Global Food Systems Discussions
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Food Systems
Breastfeeding
The brief provides recommendations about how stakeholders can include breastmilk in the conceptualization of food systems and ensure women and families have the ability and support to make the best choices for their children, including breastfeeding.
Food Systems Toolkit
Social and Behavior Change Resources for Women's Healthy Diets: 5 Gaps and Recommendations
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Food Systems
This brief outlines five gaps and recommendations in social and behavior change (SBC) resources for women's healthy diets. You can learn more about where more research and tools are needed to guide future SBC investment and programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Methods, Tools, and Metrics for Evaluating Market Food Environments in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food SystemsConsumer Demand for Healthy Diets
This report highlights 47 existing tools, methods, and metrics that are suitable for evaluating the food environment in low and middle income countries. You can learn more about which assessments are relevant for your program context.
Food Systems Toolkit
Locally Led Development: Partnering for Improved Nutrition Brief
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Food Systems
This brief draws on lessons learned from a USAID project in Odisha, India to provide recommendations for USAID and other implementing partners on how to partner with local government, systems, and structures to scale nutrition interventions. You can learn about six recommendations on how to build and maintain successful partnerships.
Food Systems Toolkit
The Integral Role of Food Safety in Strengthening Food Systems
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Food Systems
This brief outlines how USAID is promoting adoption of food safety practices within the food system. You can learn more about steps you can take to incorporate food safety into planning and programming.
Food Systems Toolkit
Designing Effective Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities Workshop: Facilitator's Guide and Slides
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Food Systems
This is a step-by-step guide to help implementing partners design and measure nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. You can use it during the start up or working planning phases of a project.
Food Systems Toolkit
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Community of Practice
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Food Systems
This is a COP to support implementing partners in preparing to facilitate a workshop to design more effective nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions. You can access the COP to ask questions, share experiences, and access technical resources related to the guide.
Food Systems Toolkit
Food Systems and Nutrition E-Consultation Report
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Food Systems
This report provides recommendations for decision makers and donors about where more research and investment is needed to bridge existing evidence gaps and reshape food systems to improve health and nutrition. You can learn more about five priority areas for future research.