Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Results from a literature review and five country examples show that most food system-related interventions use traditional approaches such as food package labeling, price manipulation, and changing the food environment but there is a gap in the evidence on what works.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programs must consider unintended consequences of introducing climate-smart agriculture to ensure that marginalized and underrepresented groups are not left more vulnerable to poor nutrition and food insecurity.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Consumption of nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables and animal products is substantial and growing; while product supply is also growing quickly, it is not much faster than population growth. In some countries, supply growth is driven without nongovernmental organization or company management or government subsidies. Governments should invest in the conditions that are driving this growth, including roads, wholesale markets, electrification, and other infrastructure.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss UNICEF's report on the impacts of heat waves and possible interventions to protect child health, the Children’s Climate Risk Index, and protecting pregnant women and infants against heat stress. Additional topics include malaria and arboviruses, opportunities to finance child health and climate change programs, effective climate messaging, community engagement methods, and measuring health and climate adaptation. This is a series of webinars with accompanying slide decks.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Infant and Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project included social and behavior change (SBCC) activities as part of its strategic approach to bring about significant and sustainable improvements in maternal dietary and infant and young child feeding practices. This document summarizes IYCN's approach for developing, implementing, and monitoring SBCC activities in countries where the project worked.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Implementing partners from the Resilience and Food Security for Programmatic Approaches project present findings from machine learning, comprehensive evidence reviews on agriculture-led growth and nutrition-sensitive agriculture, and new mapping of resilience and water intermediate outcomes to higher-level development objectives. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Deteriorating security impacts food security through loss of access to agricultural and pastoral production areas; disruption of economic activities or loss of livelihoods; reduced access to labor and agricultural inputs; and the closure or limited functioning of health services, schools, and markets. Research explores how integrated resilience interventions can contribute to reducing tensions and improving social cohesion. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act Implementation Plan presents priority technical areas in nutrition; the approach USAID will take to coordinate and collaborate internally and with priority countries, other federal agencies, and partners; and accountability mechanisms.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This meeting report summaries a dialogue at the first United Nations Food Systems Stocktaking Moment in Rome. The discussion focused on policy actions to transform food systems, policy changes to ensure access to healthy diets for groups vulnerable to malnutrition, ways to leverage social protection systems, and opportunities and challenges to align food systems transformation with health and nutrition agendas. Speakers identified actions to ensure that the implementation of food system transformation leads to better nutrition, health, and improved food security.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Nutrition governance requires political will, coordination across multiple sectors, sustainable and transparent financing, and mechanisms to monitor and influence decision-making and policy implementation. This interactive web page showcases work from seven countries.