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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

A Review of Measures and Indicators for Assessing the Relationship between Women’s Empowerment and Nutrition

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Child NutritionGenderMaternal Nutrition
This paper identifies how relationships between women’s empowerment and nutrition have historically been assessed and what components of women’s empowerment may be most useful in influencing diet and nutrition outcomes among women and children.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Seasonal Variation in the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Child Undernutrition in Bangladesh: Mediating Role of Child Dietary Diversity

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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Child Nutrition
Children in food-insecure households are more likely to have poor nutrition and to be stunted, wasted, and underweight than those in food-secure households. Dietary diversity mediates the relationship between food insecurity and undernutrition but its impact varies seasonally. Seasonality and dietary diversity should be considered when designing population-level food-based interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Drops of Capillary Blood Are Not Appropriate for Hemoglobin Measurement with Point-of-Care Devices: A Comparative Study Using Drop Capillary, Pooled Capillary, and Venous Blood Samples

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Anemia
Using drops of capillary blood produces too much random variation to approximate true hemoglobin values. Practitioners should not use this method to diagnose anemia in individuals and populations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Critical Review of Indicators, Metrics, Methods, and Tools for Monitoring and Evaluation of Biofortification Programs at Scale

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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Micronutrient Interventions
The authors recommend using 17 high-level indicators to track critical results along the crop biofortification implementation pathway. They also call for more research to test, revise, and develop mechanisms to harmonize the monitoring and evaluation framework across programs, institutions, and countries.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

USAID Advancing Nutrition Presents at the 2022 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit

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Knowledge Management Child NutritionGrowth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionPrivate-Sector Engagement
Summit topics include generating demand for healthy diets, supporting local leadership skills development for social and behavior change (SBC), and prioritizing behaviors for effective multi-sectoral nutrition SBC. Accompanying resources include posters and slide decks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Nutrition in the Health Sector: Urgent Need to Accelerate Action and Accountability

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Knowledge Management COVID-19Food Systems
New programmatic and financial commitments focus on the importance of strengthening national- and local-level nutrition financing, coordination, human resources, policies, and surveillance systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

USAID Advancing Nutrition @ 22nd International Congress of Nutrition

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Knowledge Management Child NutritionCOVID-19Growth Monitoring and PromotionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionMicronutrient InterventionsNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Presentations focus on tools to improve the quantity of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counseling, small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement programs, food taboos and preferences among women, the knowledge and skills needed to counsel on IYCF during and after illness, nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and disabilities, and using child growth monitoring and prom
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

2022 Global Nutrition Report

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Knowledge Management COVID-19Food SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
The 2022 report introduces the nutrition accountability framework; discusses commitments made for the 2021 Nutrition Year of Action; and outlines priorities for governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, donors, and international organizations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Getting to 2030: Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition Technical Roadmap

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Knowledge Management Child NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
This roadmap supports a coordinated, strategic approach to strengthening essential services and health systems for women and children and informs the development, measurement, and adjustment of country level strategic plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

What’s Next After the “Implementation” COP? Catalyzing Action at the Intersection of Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Systems

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Food Systems Food SystemsGenderPrivate-Sector EngagementResilienceWater, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)
Speakers discuss the food security, nutrition, and water issues highlighted at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference; share examples of how USAID and partners are driving inclusive climate action in agriculture and food systems; and discuss how to support countries that are implementing climate commitments. This webinar includes a slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

December Is Food Loss and Waste Month on Agrilinks

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Food Systems Food SafetyFood SystemsPrivate-Sector Engagement
Posts in this series focus on how food loss and waste links to climate, food safety, nutrition, and food security. Contributors discuss the power of technology to improve cold chain and post-harvest handling, advocate for private sector and youth engagement, and provide actionable recommendations for the development community.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Tomorrow's Agri-Food System: The Connections Between Trade, Food Security, and Nutrition for a Sustainable Diet

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Food Systems Food SystemsResilience
The article identifies interactions, highlights synergies, and seeks to limit tradeoffs between trade, climate change, and nutrition to improve understanding of how food systems can be transformed to ensure healthy, affordable, and sustainable diets for all. This chapter is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

The State of Food and Agriculture 2022

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Food Systems Food SystemsResilience
The 2022 report explores drivers of agricultural automation and analyzes the business case for adopting digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Public Consultation on the Draft Guideline: Fiscal Policies to Promote Healthy Diets

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Food Systems Food Systems
The World Health Organization is calling for comments on its draft guideline on fiscal policies to promote healthy diets, which will provide countries with evidence-informed recommendations on the taxation of foods and sugar-sweetened beverages and on a subset of food subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

La Revolution des Algues: A Seaweed Revolution for a New Future in Sustainable Food Systems

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Food Systems Food SystemsGenderInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal NutritionNutrition Sensitive AgricultureResilience
A new book suggests seaweed could play a significant role in increasing food and nutrition security; mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss; and increasing sustainable job creation, economic growth, and gender equality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Innovating for Safer Foods—EatSafe in Nigeria's Approach to Designing Consumer Interventions in Traditional Markets

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Food Systems Food SafetyFood Systems
This paper describes how the Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe) program in Nigeria identified and designed innovative interventions to increase consumer demand for safe foods in traditional market settings.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

In Pursuit of More Fruitful Food Systems

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Food Systems Food Systems
An integrated methodology that includes climate, crop, economic, and life cycle assessment models could more accurately project future yields; determine where fruit and vegetable crops may become more profitable or environmentally advantageous to produce; and assess climate change impacts on crops, including the impact on yield, irrigation demand, and the environmental footprint.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Food Inflation and Child Undernutrition in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Food Systems Adolescent NutritionChild NutritionInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)Maternal Nutrition
Food inflation increases the risk of wasting and severe wasting in infants and older children, especially male children and those from poor and rural households. Food inflation during pregnancy and in the first year after birth increases the risk of stunting in children aged two to five years. Interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Can a Gender-Sensitive Integrated Poultry Value Chain and Nutrition Intervention Among the Rural Poor Increase Women’s Empowerment in Burkina Faso?

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Food Systems Food SystemsGender
This study finds that a gender- and nutrition-sensitive poultry production intervention in Burkina Faso did not impact women’s empowerment or gender parity. This may be due to the lack of a productive asset transfer, which has previously been shown to be essential but not sufficient for women’s empowerment in agricultural development programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Using Household Consumption Data to Flag Low Nutrient Access

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Food Systems Anemia
Practitioners can use consumption frequency based on household data collected in emergency assessments and through monitoring systems as a proxy for approximating access to vitamin A and iron in humanitarian contexts. This article is behind a paywall.