Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Children Living with Disabilities Are Neglected in Severe Malnutrition Protocols: A Guideline Review
Few international and national guidelines have detailed discussions of the specific needs of children living with disabilities, and only one mentioned strategies during nutritional emergencies. Interviews identified barriers related to medical complexity, resource constraints, epidemiology, and integration with existing guidelines and pointed to the need for better evidence to identify and integrate these children into nutrition programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Country-level best practices can address nurturing care elements missing from the generic UNICEF Community-Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling Package. Sharing these practices will help countries prioritize context-driven, evidence-informed decisions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Gaps in program design and implementation constrain the impact of food fortification. Using the GRADE EtD framework can strengthen the decision-making processes for health systems and public health, as well as improve program design, delivery, and health impacts.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Many food system transformation approaches do not explicitly include measures to ensure that envisioned changes will improve the livelihoods of low-income people living in rural areas. Such modeling risks transforming food systems to reach environmental and nutritional objectives without considering unintended consequences for this population.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Key areas for attention to enhance the success of nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs include learning from past successes and failures, strengthening local structures, and empowering communities and building resilience. Ensuring appropriateness and acceptability based on context knowledge, maintaining flexibility to address design limitations and unforeseen barriers, and developing supportive policy and governance are also important factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
To end malnutrition in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era, multiple sectors—including health, agriculture, social protection, education, and infrastructure—must collaborate more effectively to develop and implement food and nutrition policies.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report analyzes a single community-based folic acid and iron supplementation program in Madagascar. It contains information on maternal dietary practices, societal and maternal beliefs about anemia, potential problems in program implementation, and factors making program implementation more successful. The report finds that key problems are lack of knowledge about dietary quality, cultural issues surrounding pregnancy (particularly the norm of not disclosing pregnancy during the early part of pregnancy), and side effects of drugs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This article makes the case for including agency and sustainability in policy frameworks examining food security in addition to availability, access, utilization, and stability. The impact of widening food system inequalities and growing awareness of the connections between ecological and food systems highlight the importance of these dimensions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Fresh vegetables and animal products are highly nutritious but highly susceptible to contamination. Achieving secure food systems requires understanding the complex relationships between nutrition and food safety as key components to the food security pillars of availability, utilization, and access.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The speaker discusses the environmental impacts of breastmilk substitutes and the need for governments to regulate misleading marketing messages, provide sufficient paid leave, and ensure better maternity care to support breastfeeding.