Anemia Toolkit
This article presents linear regression relationships using weather and reported crop data to assess the potential impact of observed climate change on the yields of the top ten global crops – barley, cassava, maize, oil palm, rapeseed, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane and wheat at ~20,000 political units. Results indicate that impacts of climate change on yields of different crops are mostly negative in Europe, Southern Africa and Australia, generally positive in Latin America, and mixed in Asia and Northern and Central America.
Anemia Toolkit
This article uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and nutrition along the entire food supply chain. It identifies adaptation and mitigation interventions for each step of the food supply chain to move toward a more climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive food system.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Multi-sectoral nutrition leaders discuss how the evidence base for nutrition; health; food systems; social protection; and water, sanitation, and hygiene interventions has evolved since the first Lancet Series on Maternal & Child Undernutrition was published in 2013. They also identify priority actions to regain and accelerate progress within the next decade. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This series of articles focuses on nutrient gaps and the affordability of nutritious foods during the complementary feeding period in South Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa, as well as the Comprehensive Nutrient Gap Assessment method for identifying the public health significance of nutrient gaps.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The aim of this guide is to support context assessment for project design, whether creating new or amending existing projects. It intends to strengthen the links between agricultural interventions and nutritional outcomes. The guide explains the basic steps of context assessment and presents a variety of primary data collection tools.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Given the increased risk of maternal and neonatal mortality that anemia poses, this study aims to help inform re-examination of WHO hemoglobin cut-off points for defining anemia in pregnancy. The research produced international, gestational age-specific, smoothed centiles for maternal hemoglobin concentration compatible with better pregnancy outcomes as well as with adequate neonatal and early childhood morbidity, growth, and development up to two years of age.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Information on long-term dietary intake is often required for nutrition research or program planning, but surveys routinely use short-term assessments such as 24-hour recalls. Methods to reduce the impact of within-person variation in 24-hour recalls typically require extensive training and skill. Developed to facilitate analysis and modeling of dietary data to inform nutrition research, programs, and policy, the Simulating Intake of Micronutrients for Policy Learning and Engagement (SIMPLE) macro is a dietary software tool to increase the accessibility of 24-hour analysis.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New evidence from national and state-level success stories in stunting reduction reinforces the need for multisectoral actions to address underlying determinants of undernutrition and identifies key features of enabling political environments. Well-resourced nutrition data and information systems are essential to support this work.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Articles focus on iron fortification practices and the implications of adding iron to salt, and whether double fortification salt (DFS) with iron and iodine reduce anemia, iron deficiency anemia, iron and iodine deficiencies, and functional outcomes. Other investigations evaluate large-scale DFS programs, the potential of iodine and iron DFS to increase population iron status compared with iron-fortified staple foods, and challenges and evidence for policymakers considering iodized salt as a vehicle for iron fortification.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Programmers often need technical, project-specific data to evaluate the effectiveness of an evaluation, while advocates frequently use more easily explicable data to illustrate trends at the macro level. Presenters discuss the difficulties of aligning these data and whether there are more effective ways to do so to better ensure nutrition data are useful and accurate both on the ground and at the policy level. This is a two-part webinar.