Antenatal care (ANC) is the largest health platform globally for delivering maternal nutrition interventions (MNIs) to pregnant women. Yet, large missed opportunities remain in nutrition service delivery.
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In complex nutrition-sensitive interventions, separately identifying the effect of each programmatic component on the outcomes of interest can be challenging.
Modernization of family farms improves the sustainability of food security for farm households in Burkina Faso
Family farms are poorly modernized in Burkina Faso despite their predominance in the country’s agriculture and their major contribution to national food production.
Ce document cherche à intégrer deux typologies spatiales existantes pour mieux comprendre les principaux obstacles et contraintes à la sécurité alimentaire et aux moyens de subsistance viables des agriculteurs au Burkina Faso.
Africa is experiencing a rapid growth in urban population with a billion more people expected to live in cities by 2050.
Répartition spatiale de multiples formes de malnutrition en Afrique de l’Ouest : Études de cas de quatre pays
Les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire (PRFI), notamment en Afrique subsaharienne, font face à une « nouvelle réalité nutritionnelle » (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) appelée le double fardeau de la malnutrition, où les enfants de m
Cette note fournit des orientations pour l’amélioration des politiques pertinentes en matière de nutrition en Afrique de l’Ouest.
This profile provides an assessment of a country’s potential to report on national-level coverage1 for a set of 16 nutrition interventions and recommends key actions to strengthen coverage measurement.
Burkina Faso: Disponibilité des données de couverture des interventions sur la nutrition
Ce profil présente une évaluation du potentiel d’un pays à rendre compte de la couverture nationale1 pour un ensemble de 16 interventions sur la nutrition. Il recommande des actions essentielles pour renforcer la mesure de la couverture.
Spatial patterns of multiple malnutrition types in West Africa: Four country case studies
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa south of the Sahara, face a “new nutrition reality” (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) referred to as the double burden of malnutrition, where children under five years of age
This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Gui
Background: The diets of millions of poor individuals lack adequate amount of essential nutrients. Objective: To examine the determinants of household dietary diversity in Burkina Faso and assess whether the choice of a diversity metric matters.
Coherence for nutrition: Insights from nutrition-relevant policies and programs in Burkina Faso and Nigeria
There is consensus that policy coherence is necessary for implementing effective and sustainable approaches to tackle malnutrition.
Background: Achieving gender equality and women’s empowerment is a major global priority.
Stories of change in nutrition from Africa and Asia: An introduction to a special series in food security
Malnutrition in all its forms continues to be a massive global challenge, and the past decade has seen a growing political attention to addressing malnutrition in different contexts.
Adequate nutrition during pregnancy is crucial to both mother and child. Maternal malnutrition can be the cause of stillbirth or lead to poor birth outcomes such as preterm delivery and small-for-gestational-age newborns.
Nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programme impacts on time use and associations with nutrition outcomes
Success of nutrition‐sensitive agriculture programmes targeted to women may be influenced by increased demands on women's and other household members' time and by time‐related trade‐offs to accommodate programme participation.
Background: Simple proxy indicators are needed to assess and monitor micronutrient intake adequacy of vulnerable populations.
Burkina Faso has made impressive improvements in nutrition over the last 30 years. Stunting rates among children under five have declined (from 45% in 1998/99 to 25% in 2018) and known nutrition drivers have improved.
Au Burkina Faso, la nutrition a enregistré des progrès considérables au cours des 30 dernières années.