We discuss the evolution of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI) from its initial launch in 2018 until early 2023.
Early life nutrition sets the stage for the health, nutrition, and development of young children.
Background: Bangladesh is urbanizing rapidly, facing challenges of malnutrition, low coverage and poor quality of urban nutrition services.
Development programs often rely on locally hired agents for service delivery, especially for interventions promoting agricultural practices, health, and nutrition.
India accounts for a large proportion of the global prevalence of maternal and child undernutrition, and recent trends have renewed the call for large-scale concerted efforts to improve outcomes.
This study addresses the policy-relevant question of how, in the face of major economic shocks, social protection interventions can more effectively mitigate undernutrition.
Anaemia is a global public health problem affecting 800 million women and children globally.
Nutrition-specific interventions are aimed at improving the food, health, and care environment for women and children during the first 1000 days.
This Data Note provides an update on the prevalence of anemia and its determinants in India at state and districts levels, as well as coverage of a nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions.
A set of global nutrition targets for maternal and child nutrition together with diet related non communicable diseases ( to be achieved by 2025 was endorsed by the World Health Assembly in 2013 These targets provide goals against which progress t
Micronutrient deficiencies such as iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), and vitamin A, constitute a severe global public health phenomenon.
Zinc deficiency is a severe public health problem in Bangladesh.
BACKGROUND| Healthy diets are necessary for optimal growth and to carry out daily mental and physical tasks.
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.