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woman feeding young child

Community Video (India): Introduction of Complementary Food After Six Months

This video accentuates the importance of introducing complementary food right after completion of six months while continuing to breastfeed the baby.

Keywords: Community media, Complementary feeding
Location: India
Screenshot of the community video

Community Video (India): Importance of Exclusive Breastfeeding

This video discusses the importance of exclusive breastfeeding.

Keywords: Community media, Breastfeeding
Location: India
woman training other women about IFA tablets

Community Video (India): Importance of Iron Folic Acid Tablets

This video is about the importance of pregnant women and adolescent girls consuming iron-folic acid (IFA) tablets.

Keywords: Community media, Supplementation
Location: India
women talking

Community Video (India): Maternal Work Load During Pregnancy

This video discusses the importance of taking rest during the third trimester of pregnancy. Taking rest during pregnancy is an important component of the first 1,000 days.

Keywords: Community media, Thousand days
Location: India
woman teaching other women about the first 1000 days

Community Video (India): Importance of the First 1,000 Days

The video is about importance of the first 1,000 days which starts from pregnancy till 2 years after birth.

Keywords: Community media, Thousand days
Location: India
woman demonstrating handwashing

Community Video (India): Benefits of Hand Washing with Soap

This video is about benefits of hand washing with soap.

Keywords: Community media, Handwashing, Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: India

News

The Use of Participatory, Community-led Videos in India: Pushing New Buttons for Nutrition, Livelihoods, and Agriculture

SPRING to Present at the IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition

SPRING delegates will attend the IUNS 20th International Congress of Nutrition, one of the most prestigious international nutrition conferences.

Keywords: Community media
Location: Nepal, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India
Dr. Laxmikant Palo, Save the Children India, facilitates a focus group discussion in Keonjhar District

SPRING and Digital Green Feasibility Study in India

UPDATE - August 30, 2013: The SPRING/Digital Green collaboration and feasibility study that was launched in November 2012 is progressing well and receiving encouraging initial feedback from...

Location: India

Posters

Community-Led Formative Research to Determine Priority Nutrition Behaviors for an Innovative Video Feasibility Study

Community-Led Formative Research to Determine Priority Nutrition Behaviors for an Innovative Participatory Video Feasibility Study

The participatory nature of both the formative research and training served to strengthen the collaboration among the various community stakeholders, and many AWWs and ASHAs subsequently...

Keywords: Community media, Social and behavior change communication
Location: India
The Use of Participatory, Community-led Videos in India: Pushing New Buttons for Nutrition, Livelihoods, and Agriculture

The Use of Participatory, Community-led Videos in India: Pushing New Buttons for Nutrition, Livelihoods, and Agriculture

This project highlights the potential of community video for fostering both social and individual behavior change with minimal technical input from external partners.

Keywords: Social and behavior change communication, Community media
Location: India

A2Z Resources

Training Frontline Health and ICDS Workers in Uttar Pradesh

Training Frontline Health and ICDS Workers in Uttar Pradesh

This child anemia training module for training frontline health and Integrated Child Development Services workers in Uttar Pradesh includes training module, resources, capsules, and...

Keywords: Anemia, Workforce
Location: India
Training Frontline Health and ICDS Workers in Jharkhand

Training Frontline Health and ICDS Workers in Jharkhand

This child anemia training module for training frontline health and Integrated Child Development Services workers in Uttar Pradesh includes a training module, resources, capsules, and a...

Keywords: Anemia, Workforce
Location: India

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Resource Review Summaries

Transformation of Global Agri-Food Systems: Trends, Driving Forces, and Implications for Developing Countries

This study explored the impact of providing salt fortified with iron and iodine to Indian children in second grade on anemia and cognition. Baseline and endline data were collected from...

Keywords: Anemia, Fortification
Location: India

Pulses for Nutrition in India: Changing Patterns from Farm to Fork

IFPRI’s peer-reviewed book examines India’s pulses sector in light of agricultural systems, climate change, irrigation design, and how policies (including the Green Revolution) have evolved...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food systems
Location: India

LANSA Online Discussion Summary

This report summarizes an online discussion event held April 25-26 2017, hosted by Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia. The LANSA agri-food value chains research teams have...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food systems
Location: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan

Efficacy of Iron-Supplement Bars to Reduce Anemia in Urban Indian Women: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial

The Let’s be Well Red study was conducted to determine the effect of iron-supplement bars (containing 14 mg Fe) on anemia status in urban Indian women of reproductive age. The intervention...

Keywords: Supplementation, Anemia
Location: India

Assessing how Many People Consume Fortified Foods

GAIN shares recent findings on the coverage of fortified foods in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and India. In Côte d’Ivoire, Nutribon, a complementary fortified food product for low income children...

Keywords: Fortification
Location: Ivory Coast, Ghana, India

Adapting Agriculture Platforms for Nutrition: A Case Study of a Participatory, Video-Based Agricultural Extension Platform in India

This study examines the feasibility of delivering maternal, infant, and young child nutrition behavior change communication through an innovative agricultural extension program serving...

Keywords: Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Social and behavior change communication, Agriculture
Location: India

Pushing the Frontiers in Ag-Nutrition Methods and Metrics: IMMANA Round 1 Fellows Share Their Research

During this webinar, the inaugural round of fellows from the IMMANA program highlighted their research on developing new methodological approaches to guide agricultural interventions for...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food systems, Women's empowerment
Location: Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Zambia, Ethiopia, India

Improving Nutrition in India through Biofortified Crops

In this video, Binu Cherian and Parminder Virk of HarvestPlus discuss why biofortification can be an effective measure to help address micronutrient deficiencies, especially as a...

Keywords: Anemia, Fortification, Micronutrient, Agriculture
Location: India

First 1,000 Days

In his new book, journalist Roger Thurow tells stories of mothers and babies worldwide to explore the effort to end childhood malnutrition. Thurow highlights the importance of proper...

Keywords: Thousand days, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Agriculture
Location: Uganda, India, Guatemala, United States

Learning from the Past: Framing of Undernutrition in India since Independence and Its Links to Agriculture

This report examines the evolution of the policy debates on nutrition and agriculture from India’s Independence to the present in order to better understand the roots for the weak links...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food security
Location: India

Priyanka Chopra Teaches Kids How to Prevent Anemia in Short Video: Watch

Bollywood actress, Priyanka Chopra, is participating in a nationwide campaign to spread awareness around adolescent anemia. The Weekly Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) Supplement awareness...

Keywords: Supplementation, Anemia
Location: India

Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to Enhance the Dietary and Iron-Folate Intake during Pregnancy—A Quasi Experimental Study among Rural Pregnant Women of Varanasi, India

In this community-based study, researchers used a behavior change communication approach to examine the effectiveness of “Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs)” on dietary and iron-folate...

Keywords: Anemia, Supplementation
Location: India

Seeing Is Believing: Using Community Video to Improve Agriculture and Nutrition Practices

SPRING and Digital Green launched their Community Video for Nutrition Guide to help global agriculture and nutrition practitioners integrate community video for nutrition into their...

Keywords: Community media, Integration
Location: India, Niger

Biofortification: An Agricultural Investment for Nutrition

Developed by the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, this policy brief lays out the technical evidence and arguments for supporting biofortification as an important...

Keywords: Fortification
Location: India, Rwanda

A Minimum Set of Nutrition Indicators for Agriculture Surveys: Attempting To Bridge the Agriculture-Nutrition Data Gap

Pointing out the gaps in nutrition data gathered as part of traditional large-scale agriculture surveys, Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative (TCi) Program Manager, Katie...

Location: India

Rice Science to Ensure Global Nutrition and Food Security

This Ag Sector Council event featured an update on a range of scientific advances that will directly impact the future of global rice supplies and the sustainability of intensive rice...

Location: Nepal, India, Bangladesh

2014 Global Hunger Index

The 9th edition of IFPRI’s Global Hunger Index offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against...

Location: India

Effectiveness of a Rural Sanitation Programme on Diarrhoea, Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infection, and Child Malnutrition in Odisha, India: A Cluster-Randomised Trial

This randomized control trial examined the effectiveness of a rural sanitation intervention to prevent diarrhea, soil-transmitted helminth infection, and child malnutrition in India....

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Malnutrition
Location: India

WASHplus Weekly Update – Focus on WASH and Nutrition

The September WASHplus community update focuses on linkages between WASH and nutrition. This edition includes links to a research article on child undernutrition and the gut microbiome, a...

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Location: India

Issues in prevention of iron deficiency anemia in India

This review examined the current burden of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in India, its epidemiology, and the various issues regarding its prevention and control. The authors conclude that...

Keywords: Anemia
Location: India

Double-Fortified Salt Is Efficacious in Improving Indicators of Iron Deficiency in Female Indian Tea Pickers

This double blind, randomized control trial in India demonstrated that double-fortified salt is an efficacious approach to improving iron status and should be further evaluated for...

Keywords: Fortification
Location: India

Poor Sanitation in India May Afflict Well-Fed Children With Malnutrition

This article examines the vexing question of why Indian children from relatively well-off families with an ample supply of nutritious food needed for a healthy diet still suffer from...

Keywords: Malnutrition
Location: India

Human Nature and the Design of Agricultural Technology

Three-and-a-half decades old, this ICRISTAT-led study looked at how cross-cultural studies of group size and function could be used to promote the spread of improved land management and...

Location: India

A Farming Model Aimed at Addressing Malnutrition

This blog by Prasun Kumar Das of LANSA describes Farming Systems for Nutrition (FSN), a new farming model that has been developed with the expressed purpose of improving nutrition. It is...

Keywords: Malnutrition
Location: India