Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The World Health Organization is calling for comments on its draft guideline on fiscal policies to promote healthy diets, which will provide countries with evidence-informed recommendations on the taxation of foods and sugar-sweetened beverages and on a subset of food subsidies.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The 2022 report explores drivers of agricultural automation and analyzes the business case for adopting digital automation technologies in different agricultural production systems. It identifies barriers to preventing technology adoption and calls for policies to ensure that disadvantaged groups benefit from automation and that automation contributes to sustainable and resilient agri-food systems. The report is available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The article identifies interactions, highlights synergies, and seeks to limit tradeoffs between trade, climate change, and nutrition to improve understanding of how food systems can be transformed to ensure healthy, affordable, and sustainable diets for all. This chapter is behind a paywall.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Posts in this series focus on how food loss and waste links to climate, food safety, nutrition, and food security. Contributors discuss the power of technology to improve cold chain and post-harvest handling, advocate for private sector and youth engagement, and provide actionable recommendations for the development community.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Speakers discuss the food security, nutrition, and water issues highlighted at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference; share examples of how USAID and partners are driving inclusive climate action in agriculture and food systems; and discuss how to support countries that are implementing climate commitments. This webinar includes a slide deck.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
This roadmap supports a coordinated, strategic approach to strengthening essential services and health systems for women and children and informs the development, measurement, and adjustment of country level strategic plans.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
The 2022 report introduces the nutrition accountability framework; discusses commitments made for the 2021 Nutrition Year of Action; and outlines priorities for governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, donors, and international organizations.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
Presentations focus on tools to improve the quantity of infant and young child feeding (IYCF) counseling, small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplement programs, food taboos and preferences among women, the knowledge and skills needed to counsel on IYCF during and after illness, nutritional care for children with feeding difficulties and disabilities, and using child growth monitoring and promotion data for decision-making, among other topics. Accompanying resources include posters and slide decks.
Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Resource Review
New programmatic and financial commitments focus on the importance of strengthening national- and local-level nutrition financing, coordination, human resources, policies, and surveillance systems. Countries and other actors are also investing in community health workers, the fortification of staples with essential vitamins and minerals, and the strengthening of nutrition service delivery in primary health care.
USAID Nutrition Resource Hub
The purpose of this guide is to assist teams to develop a knowledge management strategy that focuses on improving performance and the quality of implementation within food security and nutrition programs. The guide aims to provide practical guidance to staff at different levels within development organizations.