Transform Nutrition-West Africa is a new regional platform, which aims to enable effective policy and programmatic action on nutrition in West Africa. The three-year program is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by the International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI).
Adding Value: Supporting Pastoralist Women’s Traditional Dairy Processing in Ethiopia
It is 10 am on a Friday in Dubuluk, a small town in Borana region 630 km from Addis Ababa. As they do every Friday, a group of women congregate on the side of the big livestock market, sitting with their gorfa, pear-shaped traditional milk containers made of weaved plant fibers, and selling “ititu,” traditional […]
First Zinc Maize Variety Launched to Reduce Malnutrition in Colombia
A new zinc-enriched maize variety was released in Colombia on February 23 to help combat malnutrition in South America.
Stories of Change in Nutrition Expands Focus to Vietnam
Vietnam, with its rapidly changing population, markets, incomes, education, and more, offers a host of learning opportunities for those studying development in nutrition and other areas, there and elsewhere around the world. After several years of growing political commitment, with more and more pledges and declarations and an increasing focus on data and on evidence, […]
Vietnam-Based Project to Design Key Maps and Tools for Managing Climate-Sensitive Diseases
On December 22, 2017, animal and human health experts gathered in Hanoi, Vietnam, to discuss ways of disseminating the findings and recommendations of a ‘Surveillance and early-warning systems for climate-sensitive diseases in Vietnam and Laos’, or Pestforecast project.
