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Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Findings from a study investigating food acquisition practices in Hyderabad, India, revealed a need for targeted interventions in external and personal food environments to improve diets, nutrition, and health.
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This paper focuses on programmatic experiences related to micronutrient powder delivery (models, platforms, and channels), social and behavior change communication, and training. Methods included a review of published and gray literature, interviews with key informants, and deliberations throughout the consultation process.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Increasing awareness among parents and caregivers to the high levels and harmful effects of children’s exposure to unhealthy food marketing may build support for policy change.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Top sources of priority micronutrients include organs, small fish, dark green leafy vegetables, bivalves, crustaceans, goat, beef, eggs, milk, canned fish with bones, mutton, and lamb. Cheese, goat milk, and pork are also good sources, followed by yogurt, fresh fish, pulses, teff, and canned fish without bones.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Affordability measures should incorporate a portion of savings, include all income sources, and consider reallocating funds spent on less healthy foods to healthier foods. Introducing interventions to change perceptions about the values of foods, reducing the scarcity mindset, and enhancing access to financial institutions could improve nutritious food affordability.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Balanced approaches to science, policy, and investment that prioritize freshwater aquaculture development in addition to mariculture contribute more to global food security than those favoring mariculture alone.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

This report analyzes key characteristics and trends of dietary surveys over time, includes country stories on dietary survey initiation, implementation, and data use, and provides data visualizations to highlight the type of information dietary data can provide for policy makers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

While the school environment provides an opportunity to improve health and nutritional well-being, complementary regulations in other environments may reduce partial compensatory behavior and influence overall child and adolescent diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Practitioners can use the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women indicator as a proxy for micronutrient adequacy for women of reproductive age. The guide provides a new tool for assessment, target-setting, and advocacy.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review

Engaging policy stakeholders beyond agricultural production systems; collaborating with credible local partners; and developing national, provincial, and local capacities for various subsectors of the food system are critical. National policymaking institutions and think tanks should drive identification of policy and research priorities. Accompany research with efforts to translate outputs into actionable projects and programs.