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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Assessing Dietary Diversity in Pregnant Women: Relative Validity of the List-Based and Open Recall Methods
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Maternal NutritionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Few studies have compared list-based and open recall methods for collecting data on micronutrient adequacy from pregnant women. This study aims to fill that information gap and provides evidence for the recommended use of list-based questionnaires when assessing food group diversity or minimum dietary diversity for pregnant women.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
What Do You Want To Know? FAO’s New Open Data Policy Makes Fact-Finding and Information Sharing Easier
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Knowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
In January 2020, the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) unveiled its open data policy for statistical databases. This article highlights what kinds of information can be found in the databases, including facts on the types of foods consumed globally. For instance, did you know that bananas are the most consumed fruit in the world?
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Levels and Trends in Child Malnutrition: Key Findings of the 2020 Edition of the Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates
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Early Childhood DevelopmentKnowledge ManagementMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
WastingGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
The rates of both stunting and wasting are still alarmingly high in many parts of the world, especially among young children. This report by UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank highlights key findings from the analysis of data related to global estimates of malnutrition, including the prevalence of stunting and wasting.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The New Nutrition Facts Label: What’s in It for You?
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Knowledge Management
Adolescent NutritionFood Safety
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has rolled out an update to the nutrition facts label on packaged food and drinks that aligns with the latest nutrition science as well as public input.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
National Nutrition Month® Campaign
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Knowledge ManagementSocial and Behavior Change and Gender
Adolescent Nutrition
With the goal of encouraging healthy eating and informed food choices, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics launched an educational campaign during the month of March. The campaign’s toolkit includes factsheets, videos, a social media toolkit, and articles. These materials cover diet, meal planning, cooking, and information on the role of registered dietitian nutritionists.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Intake Survey Guidance Document: An Overview of the Main Pre-Survey Activities Required for a Quantitative 24-Hour Recall Dietary Survey
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Failing to adequately prepare for dietary data collection can often lead to data that is of insufficient quality or that does not provide enough detail for further processing and analysis. This can be avoided by completing certain tasks prior to conducting 24-hour recall surveys.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Intake Survey Guidance Document: Key Considerations for the Planning and Design of a Dietary Survey
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Why undertake national dietary surveys? One of the many uses for data from large-scale quantitative 24-hour recall dietary intake surveys is to inform national nutrition policy and programmatic decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Intake Survey Guidance Document: Estimating Usual Intakes from Dietary Surveys - Methodologic Challenges, Analysis Approaches, and Recommendations for LMICs
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Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
Collecting qualitative data through dietary surveys is key to estimating dietary intake among populations. However, there are many challenges that arise during data collection and analysis, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Rethinking Trade Policies to Support Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Diets
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Nutrition in Humanitarian Contexts
Economic Growth
Trade policy is an underutilized tool in efforts to improve diets and nutrition. That is the argument made by the authors of this policy brief, which describes how policy is often driven by goals, such as income and economic growth, with little consideration for nutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Modeling Farming Systems to Understand Potential Outcomes of Agricultural Interventions
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Food Systems
Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture
This blog post describes how three recent studies used FarmDESIGN, a farm-household modeling tool, to help researchers analyze smallholder farms in Vietnam and Kenya. Although smallholder farmers are critical to food production in low- and middle-income countries, many are nutritionally vulnerable.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Spatiotemporal Trends in Adequacy of Dietary Nutrient Production and Food Sources
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Food SystemsMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Food Security
To explore the current state of global food systems, this study examined data related to the production, distribution, processing, and marketing of nutritious foods.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Home Fortification of Foods with Multiple Micronutrient Powders for Health and Nutrition in Children under Two Years of Age
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Food SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Anemia
This article updates a 2011 systematic review that assessed the impact of home fortification of foods with micronutrient powders (MNP) on nutrition, health, and developmental outcomes in children under 2 years of age. It covered 29 studies on 33,147 children in low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean where anemia is prevalent.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Forest Conservation: A Potential Nutrition-Sensitive Intervention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
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Food Systems
Food SecurityGrowth Monitoring and Promotion
Forests support nutrition by supplying food products, providing a habitat for pollinators, and creating income-generating opportunities, among other benefits. This study provides additional evidence for the links between forest conservation and nutrition, determining that forest exposure is associated with significantly lower rates of stunting in low- and middle-income country contexts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
An Evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising on Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Purchases from 2015 to 2017: A Before-and-After Study
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Food Systems
Policymakers and the public continue to debate the role of policy in limiting consumption of sugary beverages to reduce obesity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Global Launch: A Future for the World's Children
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Early Childhood DevelopmentFood SystemsNutrition and Health Systems
Adolescent NutritionBreastfeeding
The WHO, UNICEF, and the Lancet Commission released a groundbreaking report highlighting the dramatic threats to children’s health, development, and wellbeing due to existential threats, including climate change and predatory marketing of harmful products such as alcohol, tobacco, sugar-sweetened beverages, and breastmilk substitutes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Inequalities in Early Childhood Care and Development in Low/Middle-Income Countries: 2010–2018
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Early Childhood Development
Understanding inequities in access to early childhood services and outcomes is important to guide targeted interventions and ensure all children benefit from nurturing care.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Diet Quality Over Time Is Associated with Better Development in Rural Nepali Children
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Early Childhood DevelopmentMonitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Growth Monitoring and PromotionNutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS)
To better understand the links between diet quality and developmental status in resource-poor settings, the authors of this study explored different aspects of dietary quality and child development among children in a western Nepali community.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Association between Malaria Infection and Early Childhood Development Mediated by Anemia in Rural Kenya
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health Systems
Anemia
Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5 years and anemia is a well known morbidity resulting from malaria infection. This study in western Kenya found malaria infection significantly increased odds of risk for delays in gross motor, communication, and social-emotional development.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Measuring Country Progress – Introducing Early Childhood Development Country Profiles
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health Systems
BreastfeedingInfant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN)
The Countdown to 2030 for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health aims to strengthen measurement of progress to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on “intervention coverage and inequality.” In this webinar, presenters discussed country profiles of nurturing care indicators that can help measure progress in nurturing care (health, nutrition, responsive care,
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving Early Childhood Development: WHO Guideline
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Early Childhood DevelopmentNutrition and Health Systems
Systematic reviews of available evidence inform this guideline, which provides recommendations for improving child development within the health sector. Key recommendations include promoting responsive care for early learning, integrating responsive care and nutrition interventions, and supporting maternal mental health.