Acceleration Resources

× The IFPRI-FAO global event explored a wealth of proven and potential accelerators to end hunger and malnutrition. Dive into the synopsis, which covers key topics from the wide-ranging exchanges on how to accelerate progress.

× A study of behavior change communication in Bangladesh by Cornell and IFPRI researchers presents three main findings: (1) this type of communication improves knowledge on infant and young child nutrition substantially in the first year of intervention, (2) the increase in knowledge between the 1st and 2nd year is smaller, (3) knowledge persists: there are no significant decreases in knowledge 6-10 months after the communication activities ended.

× Online training helps practitioners learn how to integrate behavior change methods into nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices.

× Policy brief sets out six priorities to make public and private sector links more effective to improve the food environment and enable better dietary choices.

× The new website for the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is a resource center for tools to diagnose areas of disempowerment and design development programs to address those areas.

× A Public Health Nutrition study in India finds that multi-sectoral public health policies and programmes that target basic, underlying, and immediate factors are likely to have greatest impact on anemia reduction among pregnant women.

× The website, supported by the No Wasted Lives Coalition, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of all available information related to acute malnutrition, at a global and country-specific level.

× The 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report finds the number of undernourished people has increased to nearly 821 million in 2017.

× A review of the Transform Nutrition research consortium (2012-2017) highlights results including (1) a better understanding of the effectiveness of nutrition-specific interventions; (2) evidence of the need to explicitly link social protection and agriculture to nutrition to reduce stunting; (3) identification of key components of “enabling environments”; (4) research on how leaders emerge and operate to change the political and policy landscape; and (5) “stories of change” documenting how transformative change has been driven in countries to reduce malnutrition.

× The 2018 edition of SOCO focuses on the complex and underexplored intersection between agricultural trade, climate change and food security.

× This site has several articles on eradicating hunger based on the postdoc research done at Brandeis University in 2016/17. It mostly focuses on rebuilding the food regime at local level protecting the indigenous food practices and cultures.

× The objective of this work was to investigate the use of Palm Male Inflorescence (PMI) and river-sand as substrate for the acclimatization of plantain. This study clearly show that PMI can be a viable substrate to use with sand in plantlet acclimatization; however, the different plant cultivars had optimal result at different proportions of PMI.

× Policy and governance issues related to food and nutrition security are becoming increasingly complex but inadequate responses to food crises reveal the need for nations to strengthen global planning and coordination of policy on food, nutrition, and agriculture.

× HARVEST is a public archive of research publications, datasets, manuals and training materials, videos, the WorldVeg library catalog, and more. Many documents and materials in HARVEST can be freely downloaded for use, reuse or distribution.

× Creating maps of data ecosystems can help us to understand and explain where and how the use of data creates value. A data ecosystem map can help to identify the key roles and the relationships between them. When we understand flows of data and value creation, we can create more unified approaches to agriculture and nutrition issues through good data management, data sharing, and collaboration amongst all actors.

× The African Union launched the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS)--a revolutionary new tool to drive agricultural productivity and development--and presented the Inaugural Biennial Review Report on the implementation of the June 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.

× Much more than a palindrome, MapSPAM shares results from the Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) by IFPRI. This site is a platform where users can access SPAM data and contribute feedback to its development.

× This global report is intended to serve as a reference framework that Member States and stakeholders can consult as they move forward to realize livestock’s major potential contribution to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

× Maize that is poorly dried and stored will develop moulds. These moulds produce poisons, called aflatoxins.

× SOFA 2018 looks at how internal and international migratory flows link to economic development, demographic change, and natural-resource pressure.

× Reductions in anemia improved significantly between 2006 and 2016 in children and pregnant women in India, according to a study in BMJ Global Health.

× FAO report reveals that Asia and the Pacific region is at serious risk of missing 2030 targets to end all forms of malnutrition.

× Blogpost on an IFPRI study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, that provides insights in shaping policies targeting iron deficiency and anemia. It investigates whether nutritional status and cognitive ability of adolescents belonging to disadvantaged households can be improved by consuming food rather than pills.

× A blogpost on a knowledge sharing event organized by POSHAN coinciding with the observance of National Nutrition Month in India.

× A food systems approach (FSA) is a useful interdisciplinary conceptual framework for research and policy aimed at sustainable solutions for the sufficient supply of healthy food. An FSA analyses the relationships between the different parts of the food system and the outcomes of activities within the system in socio-economic and environmental/climate terms. Feedback loops are a distinguishing factor in systems thinking: they occur between parts of the food chain (production, processing, distribution and consumption) and from the socio-economic and environmental outcomes of food production and consumption (such as food security and soil depletion) back to that production and consumption. The FSA sheds light on non-linear processes in the food system, and on possible trade-offs between policy objectives. Systems thinking also broadens the perspective when seeking solutions for the root causes of problems such as poverty, malnutrition and climate change. The framework offers at least three benefits. First, it provides a checklist of topics that should at the very least be addressed when it comes to improving food security, certainly in relation to other policy objectives. Second, FSA helps to map the impact of environmental and climate changes on food security by pointing to the various vulnerabilities of the food system. In that sense the approach can contribute to the search for possibilities for strengthening the system’s resilience to climate changes. Third, it helps to determine the most limiting factors for achieving food security, and hence identify effective interventions aimed at improving food security.

× We use a two‐year panel's data from Laos to examine whether farm production diversity as well as a mixed crop‐livestock farming system improves household dietary diversity among smallholder farmer. The results indicate that although farm production diversity does lead to a higher dietary diversity, the effect diminishes with continued farm diversification and that purchasing food from the markets plays an important role in enhancing the dietary diversity of rural smallholder farmers.

× A Policy Note to examine the trends in undernutrition in Chhattisgarh and to document trends and regional variability in the major determinants of nutrition and the coverage of key nutrition and health interventions.

× A write-up on the linkages between women’s groups and nutrition outcomes in South Asia.

× Report about food and nutrition status in Nepal

× This work is part of the Bakery for tomorrow and ECO Bakery for Friendly Environments projects, which focus on producing safe food, achieve zero hunger and a healthy environment to support the SDG 2030. In Thailand, the problem of soil pollution is rising, due to the use of agrochemicals that can have harmful effects on humans, both farmers and consumers, and on the environment, as well as on the rice, which is the main food in Asia. To tackle this problem and improve soil quality, several agricultural methods are proposed, such as organic agriculture and and crop rotation, which also have benefits on food safety and the environment. This research proposes the use of organic fertilizers, such as legumes, prior to planting the rice, thus ensuring the safety of the ingredients for bakery and safety rice for human consumption.

× Workings crop groups in Nepal, agrobiodiversity conservation and use practices with to assess diversity at species and sub species levels, to develop and understand basis of grouping agricultural plant genetic resources (APGRs) (formal, commercial, primary, major, cereals, NUS, winter, plantation, etc), to share research advances and develop future strategy, to develop guiding documents for researchers and policy makers and to review and document status and scope of APGRs (APGRs means cover Kingdom Plantae).

× The Innovation Network Feeding Cities brought together four Dutch experts from government, research and development practice in a roundtable discussion. Key topic for the afternoon was how the Dutch agro-food sector can better engage with growing cities in emerging economies that face a host of problems including worsening diets and unequal access to healthy foods. The complex situation combined with its large scale provide ideal circumstances for the innovative Dutch sector to tailor its high-tech and high-org solutions to local circumstances. Our podcast host Andy Clark interviews two of the participants, Ruerd Ruben of Wageningen University and Henk van Duijn of the BoP Innovation Center, to learn more about the key challenges on the horizon and solutions that may prove key to feeding the world by 2050.

× A Data Note that describes the coverage of a set of key nutrition and health interventions in the state of Chhattisgarh in India.

× Write-up on a short nutrition course conducted by POSHAN for District Magistrates, District Collectors and District Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) from 32 Aspirational Districts from around India.

× Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a two-year panel data from one province each in Thailand, Lao PDR and Vietnam, we study the correlation between monetary poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five between rural and peri-urban areas. We apply ordinary least squares and district fixed-effects regressions and find that child nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal that although the households in the poorest quintile in both rural and peri-urban areas spend less on food; only the rural children are more likely to be stunted or underweight. It underscores the importance of investment in medical facilities near rural vicinities.

× The 2018 edition of SOFIA emphasizes the sector’s role in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals, and measurement of progress towards these goals.

× SOFO 2018 identifies actions that can be taken to increase the contributions of forests and trees that are necessary to accelerate progress towards the SDGs.

× This is a story on the challenges faced and contributions of women farmers in supporting their families, ending hunger and reducing stunting with their efforts and foods produced in their farms. Despite the huge challenges facing the women, They were able to do exploits and sustain their families as well as feed the Nations.

× This paper reviews the literature on linkages between value chains and nutrition from a smallholder perspective, and presents an analytical framework for the development of nutrition-sensitive value chains.

× This publication has been produced to fill a key knowledge gap in the emerging field of value chains for nutrition by providing guidance on how to design nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) projects, with a particular focus on smallholder producers. This guide provides validated step-by-step guidance for NSVC project design, relevant not only for IFAD but for development actors in general, and for organizations working in agriculture and rural development in particular.

× Savings groups make up one of the best economic empowerment methodologies identified by international non-governmental organisations such as CARE International, Catholic Relief Services, Plan International and the Aga Khan Foundation as capable of lifting the most vulnerable children and their families out of extreme poverty and building resilience to shocks and stresses.

× We extend the nominal rate of protection (NRP) methodology to a value chain framework. We observe that there is increasing protection along the value chain from commodity to product for the oilseeds sector, whereas the picture is less clear for the sugarcane value chain.

× This study analyzes the National Family Health Survey-IV district-level summary data to examine factors contributing to differences in childhood stunting between low and high burden districts of India.

× This Data Note describes the current levels of key maternal nutrition interventions during pregnancy, summarizing the National Family Health Survey-4 (2016) data from 640 districts of India. It presents key findings for the following nutrition-relevant maternal interventions during pregnancy, which are a part of the Indian national programs: Antenatal care (ANC), pregnancy registration, neonatal tetanus, IFA supplementation, weight monitoring, food supplementation, deworming, and breastfeeding counseling.

× The district nutrition profiles draw on diverse sources of data to compile a set of indicators on the state of nutrition and its cross-sectoral determinants. The profiles are intended to be conversation-starters at the district level and to enable discussions about why undernutrition levels are high, and which factors, at multiple levels, might need to be addressed to improve nutrition.

× Let’s be honest. Healthy can be boring. Even well-educated, health-conscious adults can admit the lack of excitement that vegetables can have-despite knowing how great they are for us. Kids experience this 100 times worse than adults do. But the thing is, vegetables DO have superpowers! They cleanse our bodies, provide us with essential vitamins and nutrients that we need to function and grow, intellectually and physically. This conceptual direction is all about educating and inspiring kids and parents about the super things that vegetables do for your health, and how they can start making healthier food choices.

× This is a video that was produced by the Eastern and Southern Africa SUN civil society comprising of 9 African countries in the region. It is aimed at calling for 3% increase in domestic resources to nutrition in 3 years from 2018. This video was played to various top government officials at the launch in Kigali Rwanda.

× Welcome to the Supermom program. What are Super moms? Super Moms are turning their kids into super kids by feeding them superpowers from their garden. Supermoms makes sure their kids get at least 2 fistful of super veggies everyday.

× Nutrition Olympiad is an initiative of BIID as an annual event to bring all relevant stakeholders in same platform focusing Youth Engagement in Nutrition. After successful event in 2017, Nutrition Olympiad 2018 (Held on April 21, 2018) was aimed at strengthening a national platform for youth and relevant stakeholders for knowledge sharing and demonstrating the potentials of youth engagement in nutrition activities towards improving diets and addressing malnutrition. To address malnutrition collectively in Bangladesh, with a special focus on youth, ‘Nutrition Olympiad 2018’ was held on Saturday, 21st April 2018 at the Bangabandhu International Convention Centre (BICC), Agargaon, Sher-E-Bangla Nagar, Dhaka as a kick-off event of the National Nutrition Week. The Nutrition Olympiad 2018 is the second episode of the annual competition organized for the youth and adolescents to showcase progress of the school Nutrition Clubs they belong to as well as upholding their knowledge, talent and potentials in improving dietary habits while addressing malnutrition in Bangladesh. This event was jointly organized by the Bangladesh Institute of ICT in Development (BIID), Ministry of Food, and the Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH)- a project implemented by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with financial assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Union (EU). SUCHANA-financially supported by the Department for International Development (DFID) and the EU, Global Improved Alliance for Nutrition (GAIN) and other organizations are supporting the event as the “strategic partners.

× Invited lecture to the Agricultural Economic Research Association (AERA) November 16, 2018, November 16, 2018

× This brief looks at the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition’s work on gender, with a focus on country-level action. It affirms the UNN’s commitment to placing gender equality and women’s empowerment at the centre of its work. To accomplish this, the UNN promotes gender-sensitive nutrition across its outcomes as part of a greater effort to animate a multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral approach to nutrition.

× This brief outlines the linkages between nutrition and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), positioning the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition as a key platform to better align nutrition-related actions in order to meet the SDGs. The brief is a sensitization tool, particularly for non-traditional nutrition actors, identifying how their ‘regular’ work in food systems strengthening, social protection, education, women’s empowerment and environmental protection supports positive nutrition actions. In this context, the brief provides a foundation to use the SDGs to navigate the nutrition landscape. It also serves as a call to action, prompting stakeholders to engage in the multi-sectoral nutrition space, leveraging nutrition as an enabler to achieve the SDGs.

× Action Against Hunger collaborated with the Government of Mali to investigate the use of CHWs and iCCM to improve coverage of high-quality SAM treatment and to generate the evidence needed to inform the scale-up of this program. A multi-phased approach was used to first pilot, and then to further refine this idea.

× Factors contributing to the difference in stunting prevalence between very high‐burden (stunting > 40%) and low‐burden districts (stunting < 20%). ANC = antenatal care; BMI = body mass index; HH = household

× This brief provides an overview of the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition, including its vision, goal and core business areas. It also outlines of UNN outcomes and key results achieved by the UN Network to help readers understand the breadth and depth of UNN support to countries. In particular, shows how the UNN is supporting increased coherence, coordination and convergence on nutrition, enabling countries to employ a holistic, integrated approach for addressing all forms of malnutrition. It provides a glimpse at how the UNN serves as a unique leverage point for scaling up nutrition actions towards achieving the 2030 Agenda and global nutrition targets, as endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2025).

× In a study published in Public Health Nutrition, researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Public Health Foundation of India, and Oxford Policy Management have examined how a range of factors influence anemia prevalence among pregnant Indian women, finding a correlation between rates of open defecation and anemia. These research results demonstrate that prevalence of anemia among pregnant women declines sharply once open defecation rates drop below 50 percent.

× Slides from the launch of the 2018 Global Nutrition Report

× Text of remarks by Professor Mengshan Chen, Chair of State Food and Nutrition Consultant Committee (SFNCC), former Secretary of the Leading Party Group of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), at the IFPRI-FAO global event on "Accelerating the End of Hunger and Malnutrition" on November 29, 2018.

× Report by Grace, D., Dominguez-Salas, P., Alonso, S., Lannerstad, M., Muunda, E., Ngwili, N., Omar, A., Khan, M. and Otobo, E. 2018. The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life. ILRI Research Report 44. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× To address the issues of food insecurity within the context of land degradation, extreme poverty and social deprivation, this
review seeks first to understand the main constraints to food production on smallholder farms in Africa. It then proposes a highly adaptable, yet generic, 3-step solution aimed at reversing the downward spiral which traps subsistence farmers in hunger and
poverty. This has been found to be effective in greatly increasing the yields of staple food crops and reducing the ‘yield gap’. This
solution includes the restoration of soil fertility and ecological functions, as well as the cultivation, domestication and commercialization of traditionally-important, highly nutritious, indigenous food products for income generation and business development. A participatory approach involving capacity building at the community-level, leads to the development of ‘socially
modified crops’ which deliver multiple environmental, social and economic benefits, suggesting that increased agricultural
production does not have to be detrimental to biodiversity, to agroecological function, and/or to climate change. These are
outcomes unattainable by attempting to raise crop yields using conventional crop breeding or genetic modification. Likewise,
the livelihoods of smallholder farmers can be released from the constraints creating spatial trade-offs between subsistence
agriculture and (i) international policies and (ii) globalized trade.

× Book chapter by Lindahl, J.F., Magnusson, U. and Grace, D. 2018. Urban livestock-keeping: Contributions to food and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. Lindahl, J.F., Magnusson, U. and Grace, D. 2018. Urban livestock-keeping: Contributions to food and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier.

× Book chapter by Lindahl, J.F., Magnusson, U. and Grace, D. 2018. Urban livestock keeping: Leveraging for food and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. In spite of the importance of urban livestock keeping in providing the urban populations with livelihoods and nutritious foods, this phenomenon does have both benefits and negative effects. Here we explore the different strengths and weaknesses of urban livestock systems, including the risks for transmission of diseases and contribution to poor sanitation. In addition we look at the opportunities and threats that urban livestock keeping may face in the future, which are often dependent on policies and public attitudes.

× Slide presentation by Giyose, B., Kraemer, K., Iannotti, L., Stewart, M., Dar, O. and Alonso, S. 2018. Livestock-derived foods and the first 1000 days: The essential role of livestock-derived foods in the nutrition of mothers and infants. Presentation at a side event at the 45th session of the United Nations Committee on World Food Security, Rome, Italy, 15-19 October 2018. Nairobi: ILRI

× Despite significant improvements over recent decades, rates of undernutrition remain high in South Asia, with adverse impacts on morbidity and mortality. Overweight/obesity, among children and adults, is now an additional and major public health concern. While agriculture has the potential to improve nutrition through several pathways, this potential is currently not being realised in the region. The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research consortium (2012-2018) set out to improve understanding about how agriculture and related food policies and programs in South Asia (specifically in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan) can be better conceptualised and implemented in order to enhance impacts on nutrition outcomes, especially those of young children and adolescent girls. This paper provides a snapshot of the agriculture-nutrition nexus in the region, outlines the pathways through which agriculture can influence nutrition outcomes, elaborates on the objectives of the LANSA research consortium within this context, and highlights the core findings of the six papers that form the body of this Special Issue. The paper ends with five key lessons that have emerged from this research, during this decade.

× Book chapter by Dominguez-Salas, P., Galiè, A., Omore, A., Omosa, E. and Ouma, E. 2018. Contribution of milk production to food and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. Milk is a nutrient-dense food product, which contributes importantly to healthy diets, especially of children and women, but also of adolescents and the elderly. The composition properties can vary during the production and processing procedures but remain of high nutritional value. Milk supply in low-and middle-income countries has been increasing over the past two decades in response to milk demand and consumption, and offers numerous pathways to enhance food and nutrition security of the most vulnerable populations.

× BRAC and WV co-developed a field handbook accompanied by a set of minumum standards designed to provide consistent guidance to practitioners implementing UPG in contexts affected by climate change, conflict and displacement.

× Agriculture, the backbone of Pakistan’s economy, can help improve nutrition. The role of the women workers who drive the sector has been a blind spot amongst policy makers who fail to recognize how women in agriculture often work for cheap rates or even for free. The negative effect of this on their health and the nutritional well being of their children is missing from policy discourse. In 2017, LANSA Pakistan tried to bring focus to this issue by giving inputs into provincial-level programming and by obtaining public pledges of support from policymakers and civil society organisations at the national and provincial levels for the legal recognition of women agricultural workers.

× Slide presentation by Lawrence Haddad. at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Rome, Sep 2018. Improving the consumption of nutritious safe food: Why it matters and how to achieve it

× ILRI blog post by Silvia Alonso, Why milk, meat and eggs can make a big difference to the world’s most nutritionally vulnerable people, 4 Jun 2018

× ILRI blog post of 19 Jun 2018 by Susan MacMillan. Livestock-enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days of life: Pathways to better futures in low-income countries

× Book chapter by Alonso, S. and Dominguez-Salas, P. 2018. Leveraging informal markets for health and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. Functioning food value chains are essential to assuring health and food security. In low- and middle-income countries, informal food markets, or traditional value chains, are the most important source of food for the largest part of the population, in particular the poor. Leveraging such value chains is essential to offering consumers in those country healthy and nutritious food options that are affordable, acceptable and preferred. The chapter discusses the contribution of informal markets to food and nutrition security and present options to leveraging the steps along the value chain to contribute to improve food security, nutrition and health. The capacity to appropriately nourish oneself is a basic human need, and a basic human right.

× Slide presentation by Jimmy Smith. The role of livestock diversity for more sustainable and resilient food systems, presented at the Annual meeting of The Food Forever Initiative: Biodiversity for Resilient Food Systems, Wilmington, Delaware, 23-24 September 2018

× Brief by Grace, D., Dominguez-Salas, P., Alonso, S., Lannerstad, M., Muunda, E., Ngwili, N., Omar, A., Khan, M. and Otobo, E. 2018. The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition during the first 1,000 days of life. ILRI Policy Brief 25. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× Slide presentation by Alonso, S., Lannerstad, M., Dominguez-Salas, P. and Shaikh, N. 2018. Livestock enhanced diets in the first 1,000 days: Pathways to healthy and sustainable futures in low-income countries? Presentation at the EAT Forum, Stockholm, Sweden, 11 June 2018. Nairobi: ILRI.

× The State of Odisha in India is characterised by rainfed farming and agriculture is the primary occupation. Undernutrition is at a critical level with the National Family Health Survey showing Odisha in poor light. Therefore in 2016, to propel action towards development in the State and to frame realistic action plans, the government decided on a Vision 2036 Policy Document in line with the SDG targets and involved civil society organisations as well as experts to help articulate strategies at the grassroots level. LANSA was recognised for bringing attention to ‘agriculture for nutrition’ in Odisha State through several multi-level, multi-sectoral research uptake efforts under the MSSRF Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) study since 2013.

× Opinion piece by Isabella Tree. If you want to save the world, veganism isn't the answer, published in The Guardian, 25 Aug 2018

× Poster by Alonso, S., Schneider, F., Muunda, E., Dominguez-Salas, P., Wanyoike, F. and Mtimet, N. 2018. Effect of milk price on dairy consumption in low income households in Nairobi. Poster presented at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week, Accra, Ghana, 25-29 June 2018. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× This is an open-access guide to mainstreaming biodiversity that draws on case studies across the four partner countries, Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey, outlining steps to provide evidence, influence policies, and raise awareness.

× Slide presentation by Grace, D. 2018. Animal-source foods, health, nutrition: Latest evidence. Presented at the 8th multi-stakeholder partnership meeting of the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 11-15 June 2018. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× One in five children across the globe experience stunted growth and underdevelopment due to malnutrition. Animal-source foods (ASFs) offer the opportunity to address this problem and make significant progress towards achieving the World Health Assembly nutrition targets. Eggs and milk are among nature's first foods, providing holistic packages of nutrients and bioactive factors to support healthy growth. They are also affordable and accessible to lowresource, vulnerable populations. Biological and evolutionary rationale argues for the use of ASFs during the complementary feeding period when children are most at risk from infectious diseases and malnutrition. Dietary patterns in the evolutionary history of hominids point to the importance of ASFs for increased brain size and function. Studies also demonstrate high bioavailability of limiting nutrients, such as vitamin A, iron, zinc and fatty acids in the ASF matrix, ensuring efficient absorption and metabolism. The empirical evidence for intervention using eggs, milk and fish, however, remains somewhat limited. One recent trial in Ecuador, the Lulun Project, demonstrated that one egg per day for six months, beginning early in complementary feeding, produced a large effect on linear growth and reduced stunting risk by 47%. To sustainably build systems that support equitable and adequate ASFs in the diets of all children globally, consideration should be given to microeconomic and macroeconomic factors, 'One Health', and maintaining balance in the ecosystem. Important contributions may then be achieved through ASFs for the well-being of populations worldwide.

× Every year Bangladesh produces a Monitoring Report of its National Food Policy Plan of Action and Country Investment Plan for Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition. For the last 3 years (2015, 2016, 2017) this document has made direct reference to LANSA research on determinants of child undernutrition and on the importance of agriculture in addressing undernutrition. The report to monitor the Country Investment Plan (CIP 2011) is developed by the Ministry of Food’s Food Planning and Monitoring Unit (FPMU) and 17 partner ministries with technical assistance from Meeting the Undernutrition Challenge (MUCH) Programme being implemented by FAO with support from USAID and EU. FAO in Bangladesh focuses on supporting policy development on food and nutrition security with a focus on nutrition sensitive food systems and has become a key champion for LANSA research.

× Book chapter by Dominguez-Salas, P., Omore, A., Omosa, E. and Ouma, E. 2018. Agrifood systems in low- and middle-income countries: Status and opportunities for smallholder dairy in LMIC: Part 2. Leveraging milk production for greater contributions to food and nutrition security. IN: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. Milk is among the most researched animal products, counting more evidence available than any other animal-source food. Yet important challenges and knowledge gaps still exist; it presents nevertheless a wealth of opportunities to leverage nutrition, quite often context-specific. This chapter covers the contribution of milk to nutrition and health, as well as the potential for expansion of milk in low- and middle-income countries, the barriers and enablers to such expansion, and surrounding issues related to sustainability and trade-offs.

× Slide presentation by Lora Iannotti, 19 Jan 2018. Livestock and human nutrition, presented at the Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector: The time is ripe! 10th Global Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018

× Poster by Alonso, S., Muunda, E., Blackmore, E. and Grace, D. 2018. Capitalizing on incentives: Training and certification of dairy traders as a pathway to better milk, health and nutrition. Poster presented at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week, Accra, Ghana, 25-29 June 2018. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× Blog post, 27 Jul 2018 by Susan MacMillan. Anti-Livestock rhetoic in wealthy west impacts poor nations, published by Alliance for Science

× The consumption of even small amounts of animal-source foods has the potential to improve nutrition, especially in vulnerable households. However, scaling up their production bears food safety risks that are often overlooked due to a disconnect between human nutrition and animal sciences. The aim of this scoping study in Tanzania was to identify opportunities for nutritional and food safety benefits from cow milk. . . . Consumers had a positive attitude towards milk and concern for quality but most thought there was no risk of illness from milk consumption. The findings promote understanding of the complexity surrounding the local food environment and practices related to the production and consumption of dairy products and allow shaping recommendations for nutrition-sensitive livestock interventions.

× Book chapter by Roesel, K. 2018. Smallholder pork: Contributions to food and nutrition security. In: Reference module in food science. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Elsevier. The article summarizes the current global distribution and burden of malnutrition and then outlines how animal sourced foods such as milk, meat, eggs and fish can contribute to a balanced human diet, especially in low- and middle income countries where meals are largely starch-based and lacking diversity. The last part outlines the nutritional composition of pork, and shows how smallholder pig keeping is increasingly popular in these countries as a source of food and income.

× Slide presentation by Alonso, S., Lannerstad, M., Dominguez-Salas, P. and Grace, D. 2018. The influence of livestock-derived foods on nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life: Research report launch. Presented at the Agriculture Nutrition and Health Academy Week, Accra, Ghana, 26 June 2018. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× Food fortification is a popular strategy for addressing ‘hidden hunger’, and staple foods are seen as promising, if unproven, vehicles for the delivery of essential micronutrients to poor people in developing countries. This article examines wheat flour fortification with iron in Pakistan as a case of technocratic optimism in the face of institutional constraints. An evaluative framework based on the analysis of entire value chains can provide a reality check on technocratic optimism. We find that poor people based their preferences for different types of flour on price as well as perceptions of nutritional value. Many of these flour types are not covered by fortification programmes. Fortification interventions, meanwhile, have attempted to leverage public-private partnerships in a segment of the wheat flour value chain which is beset with regulatory weakness. This article illustrates why technical interventions should support rather than ignore a broader agenda of reforms in food policy.

× The adverse health impacts of early infant stunting can be partially ameliorated by early catch‐up growth. Few studies have examined predictors of and barriers to catch‐up growth to identify intervention points for improving linear growth during infancy. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of, and factors associated with, catch‐up growth among infants in Pakistan. A longitudinal study of mother-infant dyads (n = 1,161) was conducted in rural Sindh province, with enrolment between December 2015 and February 2016 (infants aged 0.5-3 months), and follow‐up (n = 1035) between November 2016 and January 2017 (infants aged 9-15 months). The outcome was catch‐up growth (change in conditional length‐for‐age z‐scores >0.67 between baseline and endline). Associated factors were examined using multivariable logistic regression analyses. The prevalence of stunting was 45.3% at baseline and 60.7% at follow‐up. 22.8% of infants exhibited catch‐up growth over this period. Factors positively associated with catch‐up growth included maternal height (odds ratio (OR) = 1.08 [1.05-1.11]), household wealth (OR = 3.61 [1.90-6.84]), maternal (OR = 2.43 [1.30-4.56]) or paternal (OR = 1.46 [1.05-2.03]) education, and households with two or more adult females (OR = 1.91 [1.26-2.88]). Factors negatively associated with catch‐up growth were two (OR = 0.64 [0.45-0.89]) or three or more (OR = 0.44 [0.29-0.66]) preschool children in the household and the infant being currently breastfed (OR = 0.59 [0.41-0.88]). Catch‐up growth was exhibited among approximately a quarter of infants despite living in challenging environments associated with extremely high rates of early infant stunting. Several modifiable factors were identified that might represent suitable programme intervention points to off‐set early infant stunting in rural Pakistan.

× Although some South Asian countries have recently made impressive progress against undernutrition, indicators of maternal and child nutrition remain extremely poor across South Asia. In all countries except the Maldives and Sri Lanka, more than a third of preschool children are stunted, 33-52 percent of adult women have anemia and most countries have wasting prevalence in excess of 10% (considered “alarming”).

× Nutrition promotion and collective vegetable gardening by adolescent girls in Afghanistan

× Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) as defined by Prof. M S Swaminathan, envisages the introduction of location-specific agricultural remedies for nutritional maladies by mainstreaming nutritional criteria in the selection of farming system components involving crops, animals and wherever feasible fish (Nagarajan et al 2014). It is an interventional
approach that includes a combination of sustainable measures including advanced crop production practices, biofortification, promotion of nutrition gardens of fruits and vegetables, livestock and poultry development, and setting up of small-scale fisheries, combined with nutrition awareness; the objective being to address malnutrition in all its forms, viz. calorie deprivation, protein deficiency and 'hidden hunger' (i.e. micronutrient deficiencies).

× Interventions in agri-food value chains are thought to potentially make important contributions towards enhancing agriculture’s role in nutrition. Some frameworks have begun to identify sets of requirements for pro-nutrition value chains. Pakistan’s dairy sector has been the focus
of a business-driven innovation which introduced ultra-high temperature (UHT)-treated milk in aseptic packaging. This was expected to relieve existing constraints in production and distribution, raise incomes for producers, and increase the supply of an affordable nutrient-dense food to consumers. While this innovation appeared to fulfil most requirements of
a pro-nutrition value chain, it ultimately failed to act as a bridge between farmers and consumers. Instead, it led to the introduction of non-dairy products and imported raw materials. This case study shows that while existing frameworks take a relatively static view of whether an innovation prospectively fulfils certain requirements, businesses can quickly alter entire value chains in response to market conditions.

× Despite agriculture being the mainstay of Afghan society, little attention has been given to its potential to address undernutrition. The Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA) research programme consortium aims to enhance the impact of agriculture on maternal and child nutrition in Afghanistan. LANSA activities in Afghanistan have included, mapping of stakeholder perceptions of sectoral policies and programmes, primary research, secondary data analysis, policy dialogue, capacity strengthening, research uptake and dissemination.

The research in Afghanistan has been led by staff of the University of London International Development Centre (LIDC) in collaboration with a range of organisations in Afghanistan: Afghanaid, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Ecology and Conservation Organisation of Afghanistan (ECOA) and BRAC.

× CGIAR is transforming the global food system. In Malawi, researchers have developed improved varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato that have increased levels of vitamin A, are higher yielding and are drought and heat tolerant. In Vietnam, researchers are working with market vendors and farmers to ensure the availability of safe, diverse and nutrient-rich foods.

× ILRI. 2018. Achieving food and nutritional security and better lives through livestock. Prepared for World Food Day 2018. Nairobi, Kenya: ILRI.

× Review of evidence from HarvestPlus shows that biofortification is proven to measurably improve human health and nutrition.

× Special issue on nutrition, plant breeding, delivery, building stakeholder support and integrating biofortification into national and regional policies

× This publication provides a list of food system-based intervention options to improve nutrition and a set concrete entry points for maximizing the impact of each intervention. It is a key resource to assist professionals involved in different areas - from breeding to production; from food transformation and packaging to transportation and trade; from marketing and value chain to food safety; from food labelling to consumer education.

× This paper provides a short critique of some approaches to estimating the benefits of investments in child nutrition and then presents an alternative set of estimates based on different core data. These new estimates reinforce the basic conclusions of the existing literature: the economic value of reducing undernutrition in undernourished populations is likely to be substantial.

× This policy brief explains the double burden of malnutrition now facing many countries worldwide – characterized by the coexistence of undernutrition along with overweight, obesity or diet-related noncommunicable diseases.

× A meeting synopsis identifies lessons learned from the Thai experience in nearly eliminating hunger and undernutrition in the country

× Study by researchers from Cornell, the University of Maryland, and IFPRI finds that behavior change communication to improve infant and young child nutrition in rural Bangladesh reaches beyond participating mothers and impacts neighbors.

× Rates of stunting and underweight declined in India between 2006 and 2016, but wasting among children and anemia rates among women showed little change, reports Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India (POSHAN).

× Compact2025 recently organized forums on accelerating progress to end hunger and malnutrition in Rwanda and Malawi.

× The 2017 Panorama addresses the region’s progress towards compliance with SDG 2; analyzes four dimensions of food security; and provides policy guidelines within the framework of food systems for the promotion of healthy eating.

× This article debunks four myths about women in agriculture: that they (1) are poor, (2) produce most of the food, (3) own basically no land, and (4) are better stewards of the environment. The article calls for collecting and using better data to capture the variation in the roles and status of women to develop effective policies to promote food security.

× The report , with the theme, "building resilience for food security and nutrition in times of conflict and crisis,“ establishes a baseline against which to measure future progress towards achieving SDG 2 on ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in NENA by monitoring the latest indicators.

× World Bank report explains how the country more than halved its stunting rates among children from 28 percent in 2008 to 13 percent in 2016.

× Urbanization is moving fastest in Africa south of the Sahara, with major implications for food security and other governance challenges. Large urban poor populations rely heavily on the informal economy for accessible, affordable food, but food security policies in urban Africa face institutional, administrative, and political challenges.

× IFCT 2017 is a unique scientific tool that has been constructed completely with data derived from actual chemical analysis of over 150 nutrients and bioactive substances for each of the 526 composite food samples. The IFCT 2017 is a body of food composition data representative of both the national food supply and consumption patterns derived separately for six regions of the country.

× Poverty, food insecurity, and malnutrition become increasingly urban problems as urban populations expand everywhere. Persistent child undernutrition, stubborn micronutrient deficiencies, and an alarming rise in overweight and obesity in urban areas mark the shift of the burden of malnutrition from rural areas to cities. In addition, the urban poor face a challenging food environment.

× The brief presents several policy recommendations to help prevent conflict and to address some of the underlying causes of forced migration.

× Proceedings of a National Sharingshop: 18 December 2017, Kathmandu

× Status of different native crops genetic resources in Nepal and their role for food and nutrition security

× Achieving the food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture goals by 2030 requires a coordinated set of actions on a number of fronts: coherent policies and programmes, an increase of investments in line with national priorities and greater collaboration across different sectors and stakeholders.

It is in this context that FAO and the EU, through the “Food and Nutrition Security Impact, Resilience, Sustainability and Transformation” (FIRST) programme are supporting governments and their development partners in creating a policy and institutional environment that is conducive to the achievement of SDG2.

The FIRST’s Policy Guidance Notes series, ensures that policy makers have the support they need to understand how sectoral issues affect food security and nutrition and to recognise how to incorporate these considerations into their policies.

What policy changes are needed in sector policies to achieve food security and nutrition objectives? What are the challenges and how can we address them? Using a stepwise approach, these guidance notes support policy advisors and decision-makers in addressing these questions and integrating food security and nutrition as a key objective in relevant sector policies.

× Integration of neglected and underutilized crop in formal system

× The No Wasted Lives Coalition is investing in cutting edge ideas to drive forward global learning and action on acute malnutrition. As part of this effort, in 2018, No Wasted Lives and the Council of Research & Technical Advice (CORTASAM) launched the global Research Agenda for Acute Malnutrition and a call for Expressions of Interest from organisations working in research and programming for acute malnutrition and who want to support this effort. Our aim is to support coordination and concrete action across the sector, filling critical gaps and scaling-up evidence-based prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition.

× Clip with inserts from a movie of message on important interventions to eliminate stunting by the Minister for Health, Community Development Gender Elderly and Children.

× Consumption patterns have changed, giving rise to new threats to food security. Latest available country-level data are analyzed and compared with global averages.

× This is a seminar proceeding which was organized to emphasize on the role of women in inclusive rural transformation demarcated as a process in which rising farm and non-farm productivity, increasing marketable surpluses, expanded off-farm employment opportunities, better access to services and infrastructure and capacity to influence policy all lead to improved rural livelihoods. We do believe that role of women in rural transformation can lead to numerous positive developments in the lives of people, growth in life expectancy, improvements in education, health, water and sanitation, increased rural employment opportunities for empowerment of rural women and sustainable growth.

× This Data Note describes the current levels of a set of key NCD-related outcomes at the district level in India, summarizing data from the recently released district fact sheets of the National Family Health Survey.

× Call for input on to a global research prioritization process from the No Wasted Lives coalition

× The Coalition of Research & Technical Advice on Severe Acute Malnutrition (CORTASAM) aimed to produce a set of research priorities that are critical to achieve measurable improvements in the quality, effectiveness, scale and sustainability of programmes addressing acute malnutrition in children under five years of age that will ultimately result in scaling up treatment by 2020. To achieve this, CORTASAM led an exercise using the Child Health & Nutrition Research Initiative (CHNRI) methodology (Rudan et al, 2008) for setting research priorities. This exercise provides a robust and transparent framework to collect global, regional and country-level stakeholder feedback by scoring a set of research questions against a set of pre-defined criteria.

× A "double duty" innovative financing approach to tackling the double burden of malnutrition, Pivotal incentivizes and tracks the physical activity of individuals, and uses the aggregated “calorie-burn” to leverage funding for nutrition projects. It revolves around the strength and links between three communities: a) calorie-burners who walk/run/cycle and upload their calorie burn using fitness tech to an online platform, b) investors who “match-fund” this pooled calorie burn and c) implementers who put these new funds to use in nutrition and health projects (locally or globally).

× In Field Exchange 53 (November 2016) colleagues from Action Against Hunger, UNICEF, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), the Department for International Development (DFID), the European Commission and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) made a collective case to scale up services to manage severe acute malnutrition (SAM) around the world. In that joint op-ed the authors recognised that “to unlock the global and national challenges we will need to bring our different skills, knowledge, geographical reach and diverse networks to bear on this very pressing problem. Only if efforts are coordinated and dialogue sustained on the opportunities and challenges we face, will we maximise the influence and impact we can leverage, and bring others on board to drive change”.

Since then other agencies, including the World Food Programme (WFP), the innocent foundation, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and ALIMA, have come forward to answer this call and together we have created No Wasted Lives, a coalition to accelerate action for children with acute malnutrition.

× As part of the global efforts to address gaps and improve the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition, the No Wasted Lives coalition was formed with the aim of doubling the number of children receiving treatment to six million per year by 2020.
To address the gaps, the No Wasted Lives coalition founded the Council of Research & Technical Advice on SAM (CORTASAM) in 2016. Comprised of leading experts in child health and nutrition across the world and representatives of regions with the highest burden, the Council’s goal is to drive the use of evidence for action in order ultimately to reach more children with effective treatment and prevention programmes. The Council aims to do this in three ways:

- Set research priorities: Identify research and knowledge gaps to guide global research priorities in the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition;
- Drive the use of evidence in programmes: Provide a systematic and transparent review of the emerging evidence, resulting in interim advice on the operational implications and application; and
- Drive the use of evidence in policies: Coordinate with the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure critical evidence gaps are filled and result in integration of emerging evidence into normative guidance.

× Choline status has been associated with stunting among young children. Findings from this study showed that an egg intervention improved linear growth by a length-for-age z score of 0.63.

× The Women’s Work and Nutrition (WWN) survey conducted collaboratively by CSSR and LCIRAH aims to address evidence gaps by evaluating the impact of women’s work in agriculture on their own nutrition and that of their young children. It also seeks to find ways to reduce the negative impacts and enhance the positive ones. Given the emerging importance of the provincial level of government in agricultural as well as nutritional policy and programming, the main focus of the study and its research uptake is on the province of Sindh which has the highest rates of undernutrition in Pakistan alongside a thriving agricultural economy. In addition to our continuing contacts with stakeholders in government and donors, engagement with community-level stakeholders began towards the end of 2016 as one way of addressing fluctuating interest and commitment at the higher policy levels.

× Slide presentation by Jimmy Smith. The role of livestock in developing countries: Misperceptions, facts and consequences. Presented at the Workshop on Extinction and Livestock: Moving to a Flourishing Food System for Wildlife, Farm Animals and Us, London, UK, 5-6 October 2017

× Slide presentation by Jimmy Smith. Global food and nutrition security to population stabilization: Contributions of the developing world’s livestock sector, for the University of Melbourne, Australia, 19 April 2017

× Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) feasibility study involves examining the feasibility of crop and animal husbandry, home and community nutrition gardening and nutrition awareness interventions and their impact on nutritional outcomes. Focus group discussions revealed the households had a relatively poor understanding of balanced diet and proper nutrition. To empower communities to better understand nutrition and benefits of consuming a balanced diet, MSSRF-LANSA staff began to include nutrition and health messages while communicating with the village communities. Although village schools teach hygiene and sanitation, there seemed to be a lack of understanding of this knowledge and application of these concepts to real life situations and daily practices and behaviours. To have an impact on children in the study villages, a tailor-made strategy of effective nutrition messages along with engagement activities was drawn up. It was felt that the use of simple yet attractive teaching tools would enable LANSA to play a vital role in influencing and shaping the child’s understanding, attitude and behaviour toward nutrition.

× In a world increasingly challenged by the need to integrate and understand highly specialized knowledge in a multidisciplinary way, this book is innovative and perhaps unique in addressing this challenge. 　It focuses on ideas, strategies, techniques and practices spanning many disciplines　at the interface of agriculture with: forestry, horticulture, plant physiology, genetics, ecology, soil science, food science, economics, and the social and environmental sciences as delivered by intensified and enriched agroforestry. Multifunctional Agriculture　addresses this complexity, using case studies and insights from the needs of African farmers whose livelihoods are constrained by complex interactions between social, environmental and economic factors and problems underlying agricultural sustainability in Africa.　This book, therefore, provides an important resource for those trying to understand the role of agriculture in the achievement of the new Sustainable Development Goals by providing easily implementable, practical and effective methodologies and practices.

× For many rural South Asian women, global efforts for the recognition of women’s contribution to the care economy, or for the greater visibility of women’s reproductive labour, is a step too far. They struggle to have their contribution recognised in the productive sphere of the economy.

× In 2017, LANSA launched its first animation short film on the Gender and Nutrition theme on March 8 (International Women’s Day).

× FAO has gathered 70 case studies from 15 developing countries along with evidence from field-based support to PPP initiatives for agribusiness development in Central America and Southeast Asia.

× The Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) was launched in 2016 to facilitate the vital collaboration needed between all stakeholders in nutrition implementation and to pool the collective knowledge, experience, resources and commitments of scientists and practitioners to take on the challenge of scaling-up nutrition globally. The SISN website highlights learning resources, case studies, news, and initiatives relevant to implementation science in nutrition.

× Nourishing Millions brings together the most intriguing stories about change in nutrition from the past five decades

× This short film documents efforts to combat obesity in Mexico including the government’s implementation of a tax on sugary beverages.

× Taxing meat and dairy could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save up to half a million lives globally.

× A study of rural households in Ethiopia finds children’s dietary diversity improves when households produce more diverse crops. It concludes that nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions that push for market integration are likely to be more effective in reducing undernutrition than those promoting production diversity.

× Compact2025 and partners organized one-day roundtable discussions in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Rwanda to set the critical groundwork for assessing how to accelerate progress to end hunger and undernutrition in each country by 2025. The roundtables identified
key knowledge, policy, and implementation gaps as well as opportunities, synergies, and priority areas for action.

× The International Symposium will explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges.

× Smallholder farmers have a vital role to play in global food security and nutrition, and in supporting a range of development and climate change
goals. Strengthening the resilience and commercial viability of these farmers, particularly women and youth, can increase their capacity to contribute to these global goals.

× Despite increasing evidence of the multiple benefits of biodiversity including for improving diets and nutrition, this paper explores the current challenges to better integrate biodiversity for improved nutrition in policies and programmes that tackle food and nutrition security.

× Program of MoAD for ending hunger

× In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty reduction was especially successful. We find that poverty and income influence nutrition outcomes, but other factors such as mother’s height, education, migration and sanitation also affect nutrition. Our conclusion that non-monetary factors matter to reduce undernutrition, and, therefore, monetary poverty
reduction is not a sufficient condition, is further underlined by a prediction of future undernutrition rates based on regressions. Also, we find that, even under the assumption of high growth, income growth alone will not be able to reduce undernutrition to a level of low severity until the year 2030.

× The NMNAP is organized in seven key result areas (KRAs) to reflect both life-course and multisectoral approaches. The interventions cover a series of complementary nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions and an enhancement of the enabling environment for improved nutrition. Six task teams led by subject matter experts in the KRAs developed operational action plans on one or two KRAs. The operational action plans are summarized in chapter 5 and available separately as annexes 1-7.

× This document is a summary of the Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN). It provides an overview of compendium, outlining the process of developing the CAN, how to use the tool as well as summary list of potential multi-sectoral nutrition actions (both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions), classified by the type of evidence available for them. The summary is a practical facilitation resource, which was developed by REACH, as part of the UN Network, for national authorities and their partners (including SUN government actors, REACH facilitators and SUN networks) to foster multi-sectoral dialogue at the country level particularly for nutrition-related policy making and planning.

× This document outlines the five-year strategy for the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition between 2016-2020. The strategy serves as a guiding framework for United Nations actions to support countries in achieving national goals and making strides against malnutrition. It places the scope of UNN functions within the global landscape for nutrition, including a summary of global nutrition targets and initiatives. In addition, it includes the UNN results framework, presenting the collective UNN outcomes expected through key UNN activities during the 2016-2020 period. It also highlights the support services and governance arrangements that are needed to roll out the strategy. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) all endorsed this strategy.

× This document outlines the five-year strategy for the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition between 2016-2020. The strategy serves as a guiding framework for United Nations actions to support countries in achieving national goals and making strides against malnutrition. It places the scope of UNN functions within the global landscape for nutrition, including a summary of global nutrition targets and initiatives. In addition, it includes the UNN results framework, presenting the collective UNN outcomes expected through key UNN activities during the 2016-2020 period. It also highlights the support services and governance arrangements that are needed to roll out the strategy. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) all endorsed this strategy.

× This document is a summary of the Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN). It provides an overview of compendium, outlining the process of developing the CAN, how to use the tool as well as summary list of potential multi-sectoral nutrition actions (both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions), classified by the type of evidence available for them. The summary is a practical facilitation resource, which was developed by REACH, as part of the UN Network, for national authorities and their partners (including SUN government actors, REACH facilitators and SUN networks) to foster multi-sectoral dialogue at the country level particularly for nutrition-related policy making and planning.

× This document outlines the five-year strategy for the UN Network (UNN) for nutrition between 2016-2020. The strategy serves as a guiding framework for United Nations actions to support countries in achieving national goals and making strides against malnutrition. It places the scope of UNN functions within the global landscape for nutrition, including a summary of global nutrition targets and initiatives. In addition, it includes the UNN results framework, presenting the collective UNN outcomes expected through key UNN activities during the 2016-2020 period. It also highlights the support services and governance arrangements that are needed to roll out the strategy. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and World Health Organization (WHO) all endorsed this strategy.

× The UN Network Secretariat has developed, in consultation with United Nations partner agencies, a Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN), which includes matrices of potential multi-sectoral nutrition actions (both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions), classified by the type of evidence available for them, as well as accompanying narratives and bibliographies. The compendium is a facilitation resource to help foster multi-sectoral dialogue at the country level, particularly on nutrition-related policy formulation and planning.

× The UN Network Secretariat has developed, in consultation with United Nations partner agencies, a Compendium of Actions for Nutrition (CAN), which includes matrices of potential multi-sectoral nutrition actions (both nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive actions), classified by the type of evidence available for them, as well as accompanying narratives and bibliographies. The compendium is a facilitation resource to help foster multi-sectoral dialogue at the country level, particularly on nutrition-related policy formulation and planning.

× In South Asia, a large proportion of the poorest people depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, so farm-based initiatives are important. However, it is increasingly recognised that most low-income households buy some or all of their food in markets. Even farm households frequently buy some of their foods in markets and dependence on markets for obtaining food is even greater for rural non-farm, landless and urban households. In addition, public agencies often acquire food for distribution to low-income households through markets.

× In April of 2014, there had been little policy or media mention of women cotton harvesters, and months laterwhen the issue was raised it was with regard to wage. CSSR had spent a considerable amount of time emphasising the feminisation of agriculture and its policy implications and through LANSA research were further able to link income, care and nutrition.

In this manner when the topic of economic rights of women cotton harvesters entered the public policy sphere, CSSR was well positioned to speak at appropriate forums and was able to introduce the linkage to nutrition.

× LANSA MSSRF research work under Farming System for Nutrition feasibility study being recognized and acknowledged in Odisha State is a proud moment no doubt, but the more important impact to record is the fact that periodic stakeholder engagement activity made it possible for ‘nutrition’ to be on the mainstream public discourse agenda.

A commendable outcome from the Odisha Environment Congress is the recommendation for Odisha State Government to set aside 5% of GDP towards “nutrition focused and nutrition-sensitive interventions” to tackle micronutrition deficiency.

× Farming System for Nutrition in India, is the only action-research study under the LANSA programme, and is being piloted in two fragile rain-fed but similar agro-ecological locations (Wardha and Koraput districts) in India. MSSRF is able to couple nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions, along with nutrition and health education at various levels in these communities, including schools.

This impact story seeks to present that the village communities including farmers (men and women) have begun to accept the idea of FSN and are now engaging with LANSA researchers to adopt these changes in their communities.

× Himalayan agricultural land with traditional crop diversity for high land people

× Policy brief explaining why agricultural biodiversity matters for nutrition and health.

× Endingruralhunger.org is a toolkit to review and follow-up on this global goal by providing insight into each countries’ global efforts to end rural hunger. The data are systematically updated on an annual basis (Most recent update: Oct. 2017). Please find the latest reports and case studies on the Report page.

× Together, the PSNP and a program on household food security reduced the length of the last hungry season by 1.5 months per year.

× Farming is integral to India's future, providing 14 percent of its GDP.

× Calls for prioritizing eliminating hunger and undernutrition globally by 2025 and discusses what it will take to achieve that goal.

× This study estimates the global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013. Worldwide, the proportion of adults with a body-mass index (BMI) of 25 kg/m2 or greater increased between 1980 and 2013 from 28.8% to 36.9% in men, and from 29.8% to 38.0% in women. Prevalence has increased substantially in children and adolescents in developed countries, 23.8% of boys and 22.6% of girls were overweight or obese in 2013. The prevalence of overweight and obesity has also increased in children and adolescents in developing countries, from 8.1% to 12.9% in 2013 for boys and from 8.4% to 13.4% in girls.

× Pakistan exports of high value plants generate over US$10.5 million annually in 2012, with a substantial percentage of the supply coming from Swat District, but its market share has been declining. Reasons for the decline were identified as unreliable and often poor quality of the material supplied, length of the supply chain, and poor marketing strategies. These problems can be addressed by improving the knowledge of those at the start of the supply chain, improving linkages among all steps in the chain, and developing sustainable harvesting practices.

× This is the website to the GEF-funded 'Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition' project, executed by Bioversity International with implementation support from UN Environment and FAO.

× Farming System for Nutrition (FSN) is an intervention conceptualised and designed by Prof Swaminathan, and under LANSA the feasibility study will determine agricultural productivity & nutrition outcomes of farm families & landless labourers in Wardha (Maharashtra) & Koraput (Odisha).

× This paper examined trends and pattern of agricultural productivity in the East African Community region at country and regional levels. Our findings indicate that productivity is generally low, compared to what has been achieved in other parts of the world. In the long run, sustained growth in the agriculture sector can only be achieved through increasing productivity. Efficient use of available resources will increasingly become important as countries begin to face resource constraints. This means that gains in productivity must inevitably arise from efficiency gains and not merely technological progress.

× Status of food security in Nepal

× Agricultural biodiversity is important for food and nutritional security. Using examples and case studies from around the globe, this book explores current strategies for improving nutrition and diets and identifies key research and implementation gaps that need to be addressed to successfully promote the better use of agricultural biodiversity for rural and urban populations and societies in transition.

× The focus of the study was on the collection pattern of medicinal plants as an economic activity within District Swat and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets in major cities of Pakistan were surveyed for current market trends, domestic sources of supply, imports and exports of herbal material, price patterns, and market product-quality requirements.

× POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India) aims to reduce the nutrition evidence gap in India by synthesizing, generating, and mobilizing nutrition evidence. The goal of POSHAN is to enable policymakers, program implementers, nutrition researchers, and other stakeholders to readily access the latest, best evidence to support effective decisions to improve maternal and child nutrition in India.

× This study synthesises existing knowledge and provides recommendations on livestock investments to increase incomes, create employment and reduce food insecurity in the North Eastern Province (NEP) of Kenya.

× The Local Crop Project focuses its research and promotion work on neglected and underutilized species specifically adapted to high mountain cold environments.