Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The Micronutrient Fortification Index ranks Nigerian products based on the effectiveness and efficiency of a company’s systems and levels of fortification. Digitizing quality assurance and business processes increases accountability and harnesses the competitive nature of businesses to drive food fortification performance. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Households located closer to market centers have greater expenditures, consume more diverse diets, and have greater food security than those located farther away. Investing in accessible market development and rural infrastructure to link smallholder farmers to markets is critical to improving household dietary diversity and food security. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
There is insufficient evidence on the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of nutrition-sensitive value chains and crop biofortification on nutritional outcomes. New evaluation frameworks and approaches that acknowledge the social, political, economic, and environmental factors and drivers of malnutrition and poverty are important.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Practitioners can use consumption frequency based on household data collected in emergency assessments and through monitoring systems as a proxy for approximating access to vitamin A and iron in humanitarian contexts. This article is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This study finds that a gender- and nutrition-sensitive poultry production intervention in Burkina Faso did not impact women’s empowerment or gender parity. This may be due to the lack of a productive asset transfer, which has previously been shown to be essential but not sufficient for women’s empowerment in agricultural development programs.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Food inflation increases the risk of wasting and severe wasting in infants and older children, especially male children and those from poor and rural households. Food inflation during pregnancy and in the first year after birth increases the risk of stunting in children aged two to five years. Interventions to prevent food inflation and mitigate its impacts are critical.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
An integrated methodology that includes climate, crop, economic, and life cycle assessment models could more accurately project future yields; determine where fruit and vegetable crops may become more profitable or environmentally advantageous to produce; and assess climate change impacts on crops, including the impact on yield, irrigation demand, and the environmental footprint.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This paper describes how the Evidence and Action Towards Safe, Nutritious Food (EatSafe) program in Nigeria identified and designed innovative interventions to increase consumer demand for safe foods in traditional market settings.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The Essential Nutrition Actions framework delivers a set of evidence-based interventions to improve nutritional status during the first 1,000 days, targeting pregnant and lactating women and their young children. The framework defines the right action to be taken by the right person at the right time in the life cycle. This updated version incorporates essential hygiene actions, which are inextricably linked to improved nutrition, going beyond handwashing to food hygiene, animal hygiene, safe water, and simple handwashing stations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
A new book suggests seaweed could play a significant role in increasing food and nutrition security; mitigating climate change and biodiversity loss; and increasing sustainable job creation, economic growth, and gender equality.