Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The International Pediatric Association calls for prioritizing early childhood development in routine pediatric care, identifies challenges to doing so, and proposes strategies and resources to overcome them. This paper is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Feeding and Disability Resource Bank is a collection of resources that addresses feeding difficulties and encourages disability inclusion in nutrition programs. This is a webinar with simultaneous interpretation in American Sign Language, French, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The conflict in Ethiopia has decreased access to health services and medicine and the ability to purchase staple foods and soap, especially among poor and rural populations, households with undernourished children, and those living in communities without health facilities. Documented differences in the impact of the conflict could help guide rapid post-conflict responses.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This USAID Advancing Nutrition report provides examples of what is possible at the humanitarian-development nexus when influenced by the performance of multi-sector integrated policies, coordination, funding, and program implementation. Practitioners should continue to assess the potential for integrating these interventions into humanitarian planning efforts. This report is available in English and French.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This USAID Advancing Nutrition case study argues that donors and decision makers need a greater understanding of the importance of complementary feeding and that the humanitarian response must be balanced to improve and scale both preventive and curative nutrition efforts. Integration with other sectors, such as food security and livelihoods, may enhance opportunities to engage men.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Improving micronutrient resilience requires promoting context-specific, sustainable, and diverse diets through food production; advancing large-scale food fortification; investing in developing climate-resilient and nutritious key crops; and promoting connections to markets and trade. Ensuring access to micronutrient-rich foods must be central to social protection systems and humanitarian activities.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Complex, multi-directional pathways link nutrition and climate change. It is critical for sectors to work together and develop more holistic systematic approaches to address the threats of climate change to healthy and sustainable diets for populations vulnerable to undernutrition and crises.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
This report presents the results of an impact assessment of permagarden activities in Karamoja, Uganda. The aim of the study was to assess whether the permagarden activities strengthened the resilience of households to cope with and recover from food insecurity in the region. The permagarden method combines the concepts of permaculture and bio-intensive agriculture, and uses locally available resources in the garden design. Permagardens are particularly well suited to dryland areas.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Between 10 and 90 percent of country-level air pollutant emissions come from food production, processing, packaging, transport, retailing, consumption, and disposal. Food system emissions are responsible for approximately 22 percent of global mortality due to poor air quality and 1.4 percent of global crop production losses. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The global food system relies on a small number of staple grains produced by a small number of countries and traded by a small number of firms in highly financialized commodity markets prone to volatility. This paper explores these dynamics as they relate to worldwide food crises and food systems transformation.