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Community Health Worker Nutrition Advocacy Tool

In collaboration with the USAID-funded Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) project, SPRING has gathered data around key nutrition responsibilities for CHW in 9 countries that can be...

Keywords: Food systems, Health systems
Location: Afghanistan, Haiti, Zambia, Mali, Malawi, Philippines, India, Nepal, Pakistan

Job Aids and Tools

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Community Health Worker Nutrition Advocacy Tool for Malawi

In collaboration with the USAID-funded Advancing Partners and Communities (APC) project, SPRING has gathered data around key nutrition responsibilities for CHW in 9 countries that can be...

Location: Malawi

National Anemia Profiles

Malawi anemia profile

Malawi

SPRING has developed a series of 25 National Anemia Profiles, which provide country-specific information on the causes and burden of anemia, the policy environment, and program indicators.

Keywords: Anemia
Location: Malawi

Briefs

A Rapid Initial Assessment of the Distribution and Consumption of Iron-Folic Acid Tablets through Antenatal Care in Malawi

A Rapid Initial Assessment of the Distribution and Consumption of Iron-Folic Acid Tablets through Antenatal Care in Malawi

25% of the world's population suffers from anemia. SPRING has a method for making a rapid, initial assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the distribution and consumption of IFA...

Location: Malawi
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Nutrition-Related Noncommunicable Disease Country Profiles

Evidence increasingly supports the hypothesis that maternal undernutrition, as well as in-utero and infant and young child undernutrition, increase the risk of developing nutrition-related...

Location: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, Zambia, Cambodia, Nepal

Resource Review Summaries

Agriculture, Food Security, and Nutrition in Malawi: Leveraging the Links

Although the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Malawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food security
Location: Malawi

IFPRI Key Facts Series: Agriculture and Food Security (Malawi)

This Key Facts sheet is the first in a series that IFPRI will be producing based on the third and fourth Integrated Household Surveys (IHS). The purpose of the series is to present data...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food systems, Food security
Location: Malawi

Linking Agriculture and Nutrition Education to Improve Infant and Young Child Feeding: Lessons for Future Programmes

How can nutrition education and behavior change influence agricultural interventions? In 2014, process reviews were conducted in Cambodia and Malawi of food security projects that provided...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food security, Infant and young child feeding
Location: Cambodia, Malawi

Webinar: Diagnostics to Support the Identification, Design, and Evaluation of Interventions in Value Chains to Improve Diets of Low-Income Populations

Because value chains play a key role in determining food availability, affordability, and quality, they have a role in shaping diets and can contribute to improving nutrition. This webinar...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Malawi

On-Farm Crop Species Richness Is Associated with Household Diet Diversity and Quality in Subsistence- and Market-Oriented Farming Households in Malawi

Crop species richness (CSR) may be important for maintaining the diversity of diets of smallholder farming households. This study defines CSR and determines its association with the...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Malawi

Farm Production, Market Access and Dietary Diversity in Malawi

Most existing studies linking dietary diversity with farm production diversity build on household-level indicators calculated from seven day food consumption recalls. This study revisits...

Keywords: Agriculture, Dietary diversity
Location: Malawi

Lessons in Global Health: Let Poor Countries Run their Own Programmes

This article makes the case for country-owned programs with sound leadership and resource management; even in variable financial, political, and environmental circumstances. Malawi is put...

Keywords: Multi-sector
Location: Malawi

Pulses for Improved Childhood Nutrition in Malawi and Cambodia

Over the past several years, FAO has supported projects in Malawi and Cambodia to improve childhood nutrition through agriculture and nutrition education for complementary feeding. Many of...

Keywords: Complementary feeding, Community mobilization, Agriculture
Location: Malawi, Cambodia

Food Security and Nutrition Process Reviews: Complementary Feeding in Malawi & Cambodia

The FAO has published detailed process reviews of two agriculture-nutrition education projects that aimed to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using local foods,...

Keywords: Food security, Agriculture, Infant and young child feeding, Farmer nutrition school
Location: Malawi, Cambodia

“Filling the Maize Basket” Supports Crop Diversity and Quality of Household Diet in Malawi

Food security and dietary quality are broadly supported development goals, yet few studies have addressed how agricultural subsidy policies and promotion of modern crop varieties impact...

Location: Malawi

The Nutrition Sensitivity of Agriculture and Food Policies

This series of eight country case studies (Brazil, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Thailand) synthesizes and analyzes national policies in the area of...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Brazil, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Thailand

Leveling the Field: Improving Opportunities for Women Farmers in Africa

This report presents new data measuring the gender gap in various aspects of agriculture in Africa. A particular focus on six countries— Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and...

Location: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Niger

Levelling the Field: Improving Opportunities for Women Farmers in Africa

A collaborative report that identifies factors responsible for low-productivity among female-managed farms in Africa, with a particular focus on Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania,...

Keywords: Women's empowerment
Location: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, Niger

MPEP Seminar: Latest Impact Findings on Financing Africa's Smallholder Farms

Since 2009, Opportunity International has disbursed more than 164,000 agricultural loans and opened more than 618,000 rural savings accounts across Uganda, Malawi, Rwanda, Ghana, and...

Keywords: Budgeting/financing for nutrition
Location: Ghana, Rwanda, Malawi, Uganda