The Rome-based Agencies (RBAs) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)’s Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) are joining forces for an online consultation, which is now open through 17 April, entitled, “How can value chains be shaped to improve nutrition?”
Abstract Digest on Maternal and Child Nutrition Research – Issue 16
This issue of the Abstract Digest features our new Policy Note, summarizing costs of delivering a set of essential nutrition interventions at scale in India. We also bring to you the new WHO guidelines for improving the quality of maternal and newborn health and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices, two Alive & Thrive […]
Conference: Sustainable Development Goals: Preparedness and Role of Indian Agriculture
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Trust for Advancement of Agricultural Sciences (TAAS) are jointly organizing a Conference on “Sustainable Development Goals: Preparedness and Role of Indian Agriculture” on 11-12 May 2017 in NASC Complex, New Delhi, India.
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on Self-Help Groups and Rural Livelihood Programs
Women’s self-help groups (SHG) are fast emerging as an ideal platform to effect change in health and nutrition behaviors. The unique design of group-based interventions presents opportunities to simultaneously tackle multiple basic, underlying and immediate causes of malnutrition laid out in the UNICEF Conceptual Framework of Malnutrition. As forums of adult women, they directly reach […]
POSHAN Delivering for Nutrition 2016: Session on Interventions That Improve Service Coverage and Frontline Workers’ Performance
The seventh session of POSHAN’s implementation research conference took participants to the frontlines of service delivery, by presenting evidence on the drivers of health and nutrition service use and some innovative interventions (information and communication technology and performance-based incentives) used to improve service coverage and frontline workers’ performance. First, Dr. Sunny Kim, IFPRI, presented on […]
