USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This brief focuses on the pathway from agricultural income to better diets, health, and nutrition. However, all of the pathways are interrelated. Agricultural activities typically affect more than one pathway and interact with the enabling environment that includes policies, the natural resource base, and cultural practices, among other factors. The agricultural income pathway is not linear; the effect of income on diet, health, and nutrition has several modifiers.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Human Resources for Health in 2030 panelists discuss building, managing, and optimizing the health workforce for improved health outcomes. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Parenting interventions improve young child socioemotional development and cognitive, language, and motor skills. Interventions also improve parenting knowledge and practices and parent–child interactions and reduce behavioral issues.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Extending the Nurturing Care Framework from preconception through age 20 in laws, policies, and services improves human capital by promoting resilience and adaptive developmental trajectories and mitigating negative consequences of adversities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Network for Improving Quality Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health provides a platform for collaboration and learning across programs and countries. This report outlines steps to cement and expand gains by aligning strategic investments, increasing domestic resources to strengthen health systems, strengthening and scaling workforce competencies for quality care, improving data and health information systems, and ensuring involvement of communities for accountability, among others.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Incentivizing fathers’ involvement in child-bearing practices can help ensure that children get appropriate care and can help facilitate higher female labor force participation. Speakers discuss policy interventions to influence engagement through behavioral approaches. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The pandemic has disrupted efforts to promote and protect nurturing care for young children, while social and economic ramifications have left families needing even more parenting and family support. Speakers discuss emerging lessons from seven programs that prioritize nurturing care and early childhood development. This is a webinar.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Evidence suggests that crop diversity, organic soil amendments, and agroforestry have positive impacts on food security and nutrition and that agroecological systems that include multiple components are more likely to produce positive outcomes. Farmer networks and attention to social equity dimensions are also important. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Building on the Emissions Database of Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR), a new global food emissions database (EDGAR-FOOD) provides data about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the global food system. In 2015, food system emissions represented 34 percent of total GHG emissions, with agriculture, land use, and land-use change activities contributing the most. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Understanding the carbon footprints of different food-based dietary guidelines can help decision-making that incorporates environmental sustainability.