Malnutrition continues to be the leading risk factor for disease burden in India, concludes an analysis of the disease burden attributable to child and maternal malnutrition published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health. While encouraging that India has set ambitious targets to reduce malnutrition through its National Nutrition Mission, the trends up to 2017 […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 10
An evaluation of a nutrition- and gender-sensitive agriculture program in Burkina Faso found that improvements in women's empowerment in the domains of spousal communication, purchasing decisions, healthcare decisions, and family planning decisions contributed to the program's impact on reducing child wasting. These findings provide the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial that women's empowerment […]
Featured Resources: Week of April 15
IFPRI, FAO North America, and the Food Security Information Network will host a technical discussion on the 2019 Global Report on Food Crises on April 26 in Washington, D.C. Panelists will discuss country experiences and global responses following the report’s call for strengthened cooperation that links prevention, preparedness, and response to address urgent humanitarian needs. […]
Featured Resources: Week of January 21
Food is the single strongest lever to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth, but it currently is threatening both people and planet concludes a review by the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health. The study—authored by 30 world-leading scientists from across the globe—outlines how to sustainably feed a future population of 10 billion […]
Featured Resources: Week of June 4
The 2018 Access to Nutrition Index finds that the world’s largest food and beverage companies have stepped up their efforts to encourage better diets. However, they need to do much more to set transparent nutrition targets, improve the healthiness of their products, comply with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, and develop commercial […]
