Search Results - Food and Nutrition Service

Advancing women’s nutrition by leveraging women’s groups and movements in South Asia: Potential opportunities by Shrivastav, Monica, Desai, Sapna, Hazra, Avishek

“…Women’s groups address diverse domains including microfinance, livelihoods, women’s health, and nutrition and violence against women. They act at three levels—grassroots mobilization, programmatic actions, and policy advocacy toward creating an enabling environment and access to food and services. …”
Get full text

Smart-Valleys toolkit: An e-learning tool for the sustainable use of inland valleys for agricultural development and biodiversity and ecosystem services preservation by Dossou-Yovo, Elliott Ronald, Futakuchi, Kiochi

Get full text

Ghana, Savelugu-Nanton Household Survey Dataset, 2001 by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The survey interviewed 1,684 households living in 64 communities, and collected information about agricultural production, food consumption, nutritional status, use of credit, education, community infrastructure and services, and a range of other topics. …”
Get full text

Learning together: Experimental evidence on the impact of group-based nutrition interventions in rural Bihar by Raghunathan, Kalyani, Kumar, Neha, Gupta, Shivani, Chauhan, Tarana, Kathuria, Ashi Kohli, Menon, Purnima

“…We provide evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in the state of Bihar of the impact of a health and nutrition intervention that provided behavior change communication to SHG members and worked to strengthen utilization of services. …”
Get full text

Stigma When There Is No Other Option: Understanding How Poverty Fuels Discrimination toward People Living with HIV in Zambia by Bond, Virginia

Get full text

Tracking India’s progress on addressing malnutrition: What will it take? by Menon, Purnima, Avula, Rasmi, Sarswat, Esha, Mani, Sneha, Jangid, Manita, Singh, Anamika, Kaur, Supreet, Dubey, Alok Kumar, Gupta, Shuchita, Nair, Divya, Agarwal, Pulkit, Agrawal, Nitya

Get full text

Food as the basis for development and security: A strategy for Yemen by Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Funes, José, Yu, Bingxin

“…Target public investment to the food insecure more accurately and improve service provision, especially in rural areas. 7. …”
Get full text

Maternal and child nutrition and development in Balaka and Ntcheu districts: Findings from MAZIKO inception studies by Save the Children

Get full text

A&T Bangladesh Follow-up Survey 2016: Community by International Food Policy Research Institute

Get full text

Developing a Nigerianspecific food and nutrient coding database by Day, R.S., Douglass, D.L., Maziya-Dixon, B.B.

“…The Nigerian database was used to analyze intakes from the 2001 Nigerian Food Consumption and Nutrition Survey. The Food Intake Analysis System (FIAS) (developed by The University of Texas School of Public Health and the USDA Agricultural Research Services Food Surveys Research Group) and food and nutrient data from the USDA databases were used to aid creation of foods and recipes specific to Nigeria. …”
Get full text

Restoration of Livestock Services in Conflict and Drought Affected Areas of Ethiopia (RESTORE): Laboratory Mapping Tool (LMT) core application training report by Alemayehu, Gezahegn, Alemu, Biruk G.

“…Launched in November 2024, the Restoration of Livestock Services in Conflict and Drought-Affected Areas of Ethiopia (RESTORE) Project, is a European Union (EU)-supported initiative that aims to enhance food security, nutrition, and livelihood resilience in Ethiopia, particularly in regions affected by conflict and drought–the Tigray, South Ethiopia, and Somali regions. …”
Get full text

Utilization of positive deviance analysis in evaluating community-based nutrition programs: An application to the Dular program in Bihar, India by Levinson F James, Barney, J., Bassett, Lucy, Schultink, W.

“…To apply positive deviance analysis to the Dular program in Bihar, a community-based nutrition program that seeks to improve the impact of India’s Integrated Child Development Services on young children. …”
Get full text

Dietary intake, forest foods, and anemia in Southwest Cameroon by Tata, C.Y., Ickowitz, A., Powell, B., Colecraft, E.K.

“…Efforts to prevent forest loss and maintain ecosystem services are warranted to enhance nutrition and health of forest-based communities.…”
Get full text

Assessing gender-responsive and nutrition-sensitive adaptation and mitigation actions using a national scorecard by Magalhaes, Marilia, Bryan, Elizabeth, Ringler, Claudia

“…These limitations contribute to differential well-being outcomes for men and women, such as nutritional status. They also reduce women’s potential contributions to increasing the climate resilience of food systems, and to meeting the greenhouse gas mitigation objectives of the agriculture sector. …”
Get full text

Cross-sectoral coordination in the public sector: A challenge to leveraging agriculture for improving nutrition and health by Benson, Todd

“…Healthy and active lives for all require adequate access to food, care, employment, health services, and a healthy environment. …”
Get full text

Including scalable nutrition interventions in a graduation model program: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia by Alderman, Harold, Gilligan, Daniel O., Leight, Jessica, Mamo, Tigist, Mulford, Michael, Tambet, Heleene

Get full text

Targeting urban malnutrition: a multi-city analysis of the spatial distribution of childhood nutritional status by Morris, Saul Sutkover

Get full text

Targeting urban malnutrition: a multi-city analysis of the spatial distribution of childhood nutritional status by Morris, Saul Sutkover

Get full text

Climate Risk Management in Agricultural Extension Curriculum by Trzaska, Sylwia, Hansen, Jim, Marty, Franciska

“…While these shifting and varying temperature and precipitation patterns have affected the productivity of many climate-sensitive sectors, the mostly rain-fed agricultural sector has been the most impacted, resulting in reduced food availability and increased food prices, ultimately jeopardising food security, nutrition, and livelihoods of millions of people. …”
Get full text

Enhancing food security in Latin America with forage legumes by Muir, James P, Tedeschi, Luis O, Dubeux, José C.B., Peters, Michael, Burkart, Stefan

Get full text