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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.

During recent decades, agriculture has developed rapidly in China, ensuring food security and enriching residents’ diets.

The unsustainable agricultural production mode of “high input and high output” has imposed a heavy burden on China’s ecosystems, and severely restricted the sustainable development of the country’s agrifood systems.

With rapid improvements in agricultural productivity and residents’ income, China has made remarkable advances in reducing hunger and malnutrition, as well as quality improvements in residents’ diets, witnessed by the progressively increasing cons

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 has caused a global public health crisis. It has also severely damaged the world’s agrifood systems.

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.