Welcome to the first edition of South Asia Nutrition Knowledge Initiative’s (SANI) Abstract Digest! In each issue, we aim to curate a selection of the latest and relevant studies on maternal and child nutrition for the South Asia region.

In Mozambique, food security remains a key issue and the country suffers perennial food shortages, especially in the provinces of Manica,Tete, Sofala, Zambezia, Maputo and Gaza.

AGRODEP is a Modeling Consortium of African researchers living and working in Africa with research interests ranging from economic modeling to regional integration and development to climate change, gender, poverty, and inequality.

This study seeks to assess the acceptability, compliance, and preference for iron supplementation; micronutrient powders (MNP) versus iron syrup.

Globally, child undernutrition is the underlying cause for 3.1 million deaths of children younger than 5 years.

This document provides background information to the participants of the workshop“ Towards Better Monitoring of Investments in Agricultural Research in Europe” organised for theIMPRESA project by the FAO and IFPRI on the 16 April 2015 in Rome.

Over the past twenty years, Helen Keller International (HKI) has implemented its Homestead Food Production (HFP) program to increase household production of micronutrient-rich foods and improve the quality of diets among vulnerable households acro

Social protection emerged as a policy tool to address poverty and vulnerability in developing countries.

Halving global hunger has been one of the preeminent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) over the last 15 years (United Nations, 2000) and its elimination is a key component of post-MDG objectives (HLPEP, 2013).

The overall study objectives are to better understand how a value chain can be made to be nutrition sensitive and ultimately leveraged to improve child nutrition, and to understand how certain incentives and services can be offered to actors withi

The evaluation uses a cluster-randomized design where 20 geographic clusters (subdistricts) were randomized to allocate them to comparison area, MNP-only area, Behavior Change Communication (BCC)-only area and MNP+BCC areas.

Alive & Thrive is an initiative that aims to improve infant and young child feeding practices and reduce childhood stunting.

School feeding programs provide students meals conditional on school attendance, which can have impacts on school participation, cognition and learning, and nutritional outcomes.

Recent evidence shows that early childhood is a critical period for investments in human capital and that micronutrient deficiency and inadequate stimulation are major causes of impaired child development in poor countries.