Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Opportunities to promote early childhood development include ensuring access to good-quality health and nutrition services, making services more supportive of nurturing care, and increasing outreach to families and children with the greatest risk of poor development. Additional opportunities include establishing specialized services for families and children with developmental differences and collaborating with other sectors to ensure a continuum of care.
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The Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally (SPRING) project in Uganda examined the barriers to and enablers of procurement and use of fortified maize flour in boarding schools in Uganda as a method of increasing micronutrient intake and overcoming widespread iron deficiency.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Consuming large quantities of ultra-processed food had negative impacts on women’s health during pregnancy and lactation as well as on children’s health, including overweight, inadequate dietary practices, and lower nutritional quality of the diet.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The most common interventions to address malnutrition included providing supplements, fortification, food, nutrition classes, and peer support and counseling. Anthropometry, micronutrient status, and diet quality and adequacy were the most common outcomes. Future research should evaluate national-level policies, efforts to support women’s empowerment within the food system, and dietary quality.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Sustainable, resilient food systems and climate-smart agriculture are needed to ensure diverse, nutritious diets. Researchers and practitioners need robust tools and indicators to measure how food systems-climate change interactions, especially in the context of COVID-19, impact human health.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Well-designed emergency cash and food distribution programs, social safety nets, school food programs, integrated nutrition interventions, and universal health care can improve outcomes for those facing food insecurity and malnutrition. These programs can also improve gender equality and climate change resilience. Addressing entrenched power inequalities, short-term political imperatives, fragmented government, and an economic system that incentivizes cheap food while building collective agency of those most affected is critical. Create a free account and log in to read this article.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Collecting dietary diversity data through high-frequency phone call surveys rather than through a one-time, in-person survey produced a lower household dietary diversity score but a higher women’s dietary diversity score, suggesting that the recall period impacts overreporting and underreporting food consumption.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Governments need to assess how they can reallocate existing public budgets to be more cost-effective and efficient to reduce the cost of nutritious foods and equitably increase the availability and affordability of healthy diets.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
With a focus on diet costs and affordability, speakers discuss data sources and methods for policy-relevant analyses, implications of global variations, and food policy research and monitoring priorities. They advocate for policy analyses to inform agrifood systems transformation. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Representatives from youth-driven organizations advocate for young people to be aware, equipped, empowered, and engaged to address food and nutrition issues. Speakers seek greater understanding of how government, business, other development actors, and young people can work together to ensure food system sustainability. This is a podcast with a transcript.