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Numerous approaches have been developed by researchers for measuring intra-household decision-making.
Agricultural development projects increasingly aim to improve health and nutrition outcomes, often by engaging women.
Adolescence is a critical period of physical and psychological development, especially for girls as poor nutrition can affect their well-being as well as the well-being of their children.
Background: Gestational weight gain (GWG) below or above the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations has been associated with adverse perinatal outcomes.
Feed the Future seeks to sustainably reduce global poverty, hunger, and malnutrition by helping partner countries boost agriculture-led growth, resilience, and nutrition.
Connecting the dots to transform food systems in South Asia: TAFSSA’s engagement strategy
Home to one-quarter of humanity — one-fifth of whom are youth – South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition.
Home to one-quarter of humanity—one-fifth of whom are youth—South Asia has the world’s largest concentration of poverty and malnutrition (1–3).
Introduction
- Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition
Objectives
Malawi has strong policies and frameworks for nutrition but insufficient funding to implement them.
Malawi is one of the most committed countries in Africa to improving nutrition, yet it still has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the region and is struggling to turn commitments into action at scale.
Malawi has made significant progress in improving nutrition outcomes in the past decades. Despite this, the rates of stunting and anaemia remain high and overweight and obesity amongst women is rising.
A review of evidence was conducted to understand the trends and determinants of malnutrition and identify interventions and programmes that improved maternal and child nutrition in Malawi.
A mathematical modelling tool for estimating the survival, health, and nutritional impacts of scaling intervention coverage in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)
Season’s greetings! The 47th issue of POSHAN’s Abstract Digest features studies on maternal nutrition, anemia, and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices.
The motivation for bringing a nutritional lens to social protection programs.
More evidence on cash transfers and child nutritional outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
A review of measures and indicators for assessing the relationship between women’s empowerment and nutrition
In this review we sought to understand how the relationship between women’s empowerment and women’s and children’s diet and nutrition outcomes have been conceptualized and studied.