Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This review offers recommendations including strengthening systems to improve identification, early intervention, and inclusion of children with complex needs in primary health care settings; expanding the availability of specialized services; and providing direct support to families to address social determinants that affect nutrition outcomes. Other recommendations include conducting advocacy to raise awareness of the need and opportunities to support children, building the evidence base, and evaluating existing tools and approaches to identify impactful interventions.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Recent research points to the cost-effectiveness of a multicomponent approach that strengthens nurturing care to support early childhood development (ECD) from pregnancy through infancy. Future research should identify the ideal intervention dose and explore ECD and economic outcomes in different socioeconomic groups and among families with varying risk factors.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
USAID Advancing Nutrition speakers discuss why and how they developed the Responsive Care and Early Learning (RCEL) Addendum and the results and lessons learned. The webinar also highlights the Ages and Stages Reference Package and Online Toolkit, which builds on the RCEL Addendum and UNICEF’s Community Infant and Young Child Feeding Counselling Package, to help implementers design and implement holistic and integrated programming. This is a webinar and has an accompanying slide deck.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This guide provides materials needed to facilitate nutrition-sensitive agriculture design workshops. Paired with two PowerPoint slide decks, it provides instructions for facilitators to conduct a three-day workshop that helps activity teams establish contextually appropriate, nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions, and indicators. Workshop participants discuss outcomes to consider that will lead to improved nutritional status and then develop interventions to contain underlying contributors to malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Data from 185 countries indicated that mean animal-source foods (ASF) intake was 1.9 servings per day. Intake was similar between boys and girls but higher among urban children with educated parents. Consumption varied by age from 0.6 servings for children under age 1 to 2.5 servings per day for those ages 15–19. Between 1990 and 2018, mean ASF intake increased by 0.5 servings per week in all regions except sub-Saharan Africa.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers found little change in the quantity of animal-source foods (ASF) consumed between 2010–2015 but substantial composition changes. They also found increasing rural–urban and income-linked inequality in quantities of ASF and associated nutrients consumed and declines in the adequacy of intake of several micronutrients due to the changing composition of ASF. Elevated levels of ASF-derived total fat and sodium consumption among higher income consumers point to an emerging triple burden of malnutrition.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Researchers recommendations include developing tools to fill measurement gaps, creating shorter versions of validated tools, using complexity-aware evaluation methods to capture the interconnected nature of livestock-to-nutrition pathways and shifting livelihoods, and analyzing pathways to better understand linkages.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This analysis of datasets from rural Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Tanzania produced evidence of the important role of wealth and livestock diversification in reducing dietary deprivation and the strong association of local farming systems with dietary outcomes.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Willingness-to-pay data improve understanding of consumer preferences and contribute to the evaluation of market opportunities for food safety interventions and policy priorities. When consumer willingness to pay provides insufficient incentives for producers, government-driven policy changes may be required.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Food4HealthyLife calculator shows how switching from the nutritionally poor Western diet to the “optimal diet,” which includes fish, fruits, and vegetables increased estimated life expectancy by 13 years when started at a young age. Eating food from the “feasible diet,” which includes legumes, whole grains, nuts, and a little meat was the most effective and economical way to increase life expectancy.