Progress to improve nutrition among women, infants and children in South Asia has fallen behind the pace needed to meet established global targets.
Can the establishment of private property rights to land improve child health and nutrition outcomes?
Background The Diet Quality Questionnaire (DQQ) is a rapid dietary assessment tool designed to enable feasible measuring and monitoring of diet quality at population level in the general public.
There are few studies that rigorously assess how agricultural and nutrition related interventions enhance resilience and even fewer that incorporate a gendered dimension in their analysis.
This paper explores the relationship between agriculture, dietary diversity, and market access in Nepal, testing the complex causal chains involved, and the nuanced connections between production diversity and dietary diversity among smallholder f
Objective: An annualized linear growth velocity (LGV) reference can identify groups of children at risk of growing poorly.
There is a growing literature documenting the link between parental migration and children’s health. However, few studies have explained the underlying mechanism of this observed relationship.
During the first half of 2023, researchers associated with Work Package 2 (WP2) of the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) conducted three linked surveys to learn more about micro, sma
This paper analyzed the determinants of India’s virtual water trade in crops and crop products for the period 2001 to 2020.
We assess whether ownership of dairy cows is associated with a greater likelihood of consuming dairy products and with child anthropometric status in rural Bangladesh.
Along with rising trade interdependency between the Global South and the Global North countries, there is growing pressure to implement ‘greener’ supply chains to ensure that traded commodities comply with sustainability norms.
Poor nutritional quality and micronutrient deficiency are major barriers to achieving goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals (ensuring food security and nutrition for better health), especially in developing countries, including the least dev
The COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on nutrition and strained intrahousehold relations, particularly among poorer households.
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) is the staple cereal and is the primary source of protein for millions of people in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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Farm households in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas continue to rapidly adopt oil palm, often at the expense of rainforests and traditional food crops.
Vietnamese food systems have experienced a transition process since the late 1980s Đổi mới reforms.
This study examines malnutrition’s triple burden, including anaemia, overweight, and stunting, among children aged 6–59 months.