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Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi

Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive intervent...

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Main Authors: Leroy, Jef L., Olney, Deanna K., Ruel, Marie T., Brown, Tracy
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2018
Subjects:
child nutrition
nutrition policies
stunting
hunger
evaluation
malnutrition
nutrition
health services
development programmes
food aid
maternal nutrition
project evaluation
behavioural responses
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145514
Summary:Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive interventions—those that target all mothers during pregnancy and the first 6 months of lactation as well as children between 6 and 24 months old (the first 1,000 days)—are more effective than traditional recuperative interventions.

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