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Rwanda’s National Early Childhood Development Program aims to fast-track implementation of anti-malnutrition measures including distribution of fortified foods, coordination with community health workers, and campaigns to encourage breastfeeding.
124 million people in 51 countries were affected by acute food insecurity during 2017—11 million more people than the previous year—finds the Global Report on Food Crises 2018. The report—produced by a group of international partners including FAO, IFPRI, and WFP—finds that food crises are increasingly determined by complex causes such as conflict, extreme climatic shocks, and high prices of staple foods often acting at the same time.
A synthesis of three case studies in Senegal, Nepal, and Kenya published by the Emergency Nutrition Network highlights key lessons for practitioners and policymakers from multi-sector nutrition programming at district levels. The three countries represent "high achieving" SUN countries with a strong track record in championing and improving undernutrition.
Nutrition-sensitive social protection interventions may be a promising way to advance progress on micronutrient deficiencies according to a study by Cornell and IFPRI researchers that involved rural pre-school children in Bangladesh.
Agriculture interventions may sometimes increase time commitments for women—who play a key role in agricultural production and nutrition—and such changes in time use can have complex impacts on nutritional outcomes. This review of evidence in Food Policy summarizes lessons from past studies and highlights implications for future research.
Around eight out of ten of the world's malnourished children live in middle-income countries finds a report from RESULTS UK. The report reviews national data and policies for nutrition as well as inequities in nutritional outcomes in middle-income countries, and identifies key areas of action that could drive faster malnutrition reductions.
Maternal self-efficacy can help strengthen the impacts of some components of behavior change interventions for improved child feeding according to a study of the Alive and Thrive program in Bangladesh.
In a recent blog post, Kanayo Nwanze, fifth president (Rtd) of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and Compact2025 Leadership Council member, reflects on how to support youth in agriculture to meet future food security and nutrition needs particularly in Africa and South Asia.
UN Secretary-General Guterres appointed the Executive Director of UNICEF, Henrietta H. Fore, as the new Chair of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Lead Group. The group supports the SUN Movement’s 60 member countries by providing strategic oversight, ensuring coherence and collective accountability for results, and acting as high-level emissaries in the fight for good nutrition.
How can groundwater-fed irrigation be a promising, nature-based solution to reduce the number of people at risk of hunger under growing climate variability and change in Africa South of the Sahara? An IFPRI blog post explores this question for World Water Day.
