Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Agriculture and nutrition are often siloed in terms of policy, field implementation, and economic impact. Speakers explored the interdependence between agriculture and nutrition, current challenges, and models of progress. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The platform hosts videos, highlights food heroes, and describes World Food Day events. It includes a call to action for all elements of agri-food systems to collaborate more fairly, sustainably, and inclusively.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The annual Acting on the Call report continues to highlight progress toward a shared vision and commitment to preventing child and maternal deaths. This year’s report illuminates how sustained commitment, financial investment, and technical leadership from the United States helps ensure critical, lifesaving health services continue reaching women, newborns, children, and families amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker describes the Wadata program, which provides hands-on training in natural resource management, nutrition, food preparation with local ingredients, financial literacy, and interpersonal communication.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Toxins and germs that come from food, improper food preparation, and poor storage are harmful to the health of children and pregnant women. Cooking food at a safe temperature, boiling water, washing hands with soap, and enforcing food safety rules saves lives.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Critical gaps in programming tools to improve women’s diets throughout the life cycle remain. USAID Advancing Nutrition developed a learning agenda to synthesize findings related to healthy diets and is focusing on multi-sectoral nutrition programming and gender dynamics in five key areas: food market environments, demand generation, family diets, policy implementation, and counseling and health service delivery.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrient profiling models have the potential to address stunting and micronutrient deficiencies. Researchers and programmers should consider all forms of malnutrition, including inadequate intakes of vitamins and minerals, the lack of high quality protein intakes, and overweight and obesity. Creating regional or national criteria for acceptable amounts of critical nutrients is a key step for policy formation, behavior change strategies, and compliance. USAID Chief Nutritionist Shawn Baker is interviewed.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
In her role as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, Agnes Kalibata discusses outcomes of the UN Food Systems Summit, explains key issues affecting food systems, and discusses criticism of the Summit. She evaluates the United States’ $10 billion commitment to food security and describes what food security leadership should look like in the future. This is a podcast.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Dr. Thilsted shares insights about nutrition-sensitive approaches to aquaculture and food systems. She discusses challenges for addressing nutritional needs of infants, young children, and pregnant and lactating women and shares how she engages with agriculture, food security, and food systems colleagues. While diversified food systems improve nutrition, livelihoods, and women’s empowerment, Thilsted warns that the international community must engage communities when designing programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Students from six countries made a #FoodHeroes music video to discuss how young people can take action to make agri-food systems more sustainable. Their goal is to encourage youth to be change-makers and advocates for a hunger-free and sustainable world.