Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Reducing child stunting requires interventions in multiple sectors. Improving maternal education, fertility practices, and nutrition, as well as maternal and newborn care, are strong contributors to change. Investing to improve reproductive health practices are important to increase contraceptive use, delay first pregnancy, and increase birth spacing. Improving economic conditions, parental education, and access to water and sanitation are also critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This collection captures research about the threats to health systems, food security, local businesses, national economies, and reaching Sustainable Development Goals; and harnesses knowledge for emergency response, recovery, and resilience. Focus areas include addressing value chain fractures, using a One Health approach to COVID-19 responses, supporting country COVID-19 responses, and addressing food system fragility.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
These resources focus on multi-sectoral nutrition programming in the context of COVID-19. Research and reports provide guidance about nutrition in humanitarian contexts, monitoring, evaluation and learning, safe breastfeeding practices for COVID-19 positive women, social and behavior change for nutrition in context of COVID-19, and food security.
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Collaborating to facilitate collecting reliable, comparable information on diet quality across country contexts
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This four-year mixed-methods study examined the effect that agroecological farming practices can have on food security and dietary diversity in Malawi.
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Lessons and recommendations from the Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab’s 10 years in partnering for improved nutrition
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Designing and testing indicators to improve programming aimed at increasing consumer demand for healthy foods
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Harnessing the power of food processing to increase the availability of safe, nutritious foods throughout the year.
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Enhancing our ability to monitor and evaluate market food environments in low-and-middle income countries to improve diets.
News and Features
USAID Advancing Nutrition highlights the critical role of healthy food in community health, sustainable food systems, and nutrition in humanitarian contexts.