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Food Systems Toolkit

This report draws on recent evidence to outline 42 policy actions that policymakers and programmers can enact to support food systems in delivering nutritious, high-quality diets for all. You can use this resource to get ideas for where to intervene throughout the food system; including action oriented toward production, supply chains, food environments and consumers. The report includes the potential impact of each action.
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Learn more about USAID's efforts to promote exclusive breastfeeding around the world.
Food Systems Toolkit

The Food Systems Dashboard is an online tool that policymakers and programmers can use to access and visualize food systems data. You can use it to compare food systems data across regions and countries and track progress on key indicators.
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Learn more about how the USAID Advancing Nutrition Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team leads efforts to inform nutrition policies and programs.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub

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. The case study is intended for International Medical Corps staff who plan to include adolescents in care groups and for the wider food security/nutrition community in order to more effectively tailor programs to include adolescent girls and meet their unique needs.
Food Systems Toolkit

This handbook highlights essential entry points within the food systems where policymakers can intervene to shift food systems towards providing more safe, affordable, and accessible, and nutritious diets. You can this as a resource to draw and adapt ideas for developing policies tailored to your specific context.
Food Systems Toolkit

Food Prices for Nutrition project develops tools and conducts research to help programmers and policymakers access and use food price and diet cost data to design more effective food systems policies and programs for nutrition. You can access a range of publications resources on their website to learn about metrics and how they can be used.
Food Systems Toolkit

Data4Diets aims to help programmers, researchers, policymakers in accessing and applying diet and food security indicators. You can access their online repository to learn more about which indicators are best suited for your objectives, which data sources are most appropriate, and how the indicators can be used to guide actionable policy.
Food Systems Toolkit

This executive summary summarizes findings from an assessment of USAID Feed the Future food processing programs and provides recommendations for how USAID and implementing partners can improve food processing programming for better diets and nutrition. You can learn more about opportunities to improve diet quality within food processing interventions.
Food Systems Toolkit

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.