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Zambia: Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Practice

The SPRING Project, together with select nongovernmental organizations operating in Zambia, conducted a technical review of three agriculture and food security activities that have...

Keywords: Agriculture, Essential nutrition actions, Nutrition-sensitive
Location: Zambia

News

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SPRING Shares Work in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture at INGENAES Global Symposium

Victor Pinga and Sarah Hogan attended the INGENAES Global Symposium to share our nutrition-sensitive agriculture work.

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive, Agriculture, Gender, Training, Social and behavior change communication
Location: India, Zambia

Series

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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 Zambia

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: Zambia

Briefs

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

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

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: Zambia
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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

Posters

National and Sub-National Estimates of Child and Adult Nutritional Status Related to Later Life Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Disease

National and Sub-National Estimates of Child and Adult Nutritional Status Related to Later Life Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Disease

Country and regional profiles have been established to provide an overview of the relationship between early life nutrition status and later life nutrition-related non-communicable diseases...

Keywords: Stunting, Nutrition-related non-communicable disease
Location: Africa, Zambia, Ethiopia

Resource Review Summaries

Malaria Exacerbates Inflammation-Associated Elevation in Ferritin and Soluble Transferrin Receptor with Only Modest Effects on Iron Deficiency and Iron Deficiency Anaemia among Rural Zambian Children

This study evaluated the effects of adjusting prevalence of iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) for inflammation alone versus inflammation and malaria during low and high...

Keywords: Anemia
Location: Zambia

Household Consumption of Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato and its Associated Factors in Chipata District, Eastern Province Zambia

Since 2011, the Integrating Orange Project has promoted production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) to address vitamin A deficiency among rural populations of Zambia....

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Zambia

Pamodzi! “Togetherness for Nutrition” Webinar

To gain a better understanding of how agriculture interventions can contribute to improved nutrition, SPRING partnered with USAID and nongovernmental organizations operating in Zambia to...

Keywords: Agriculture, Nutrition-sensitive
Location: Zambia

Design Matters in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture

When pursuing improved nutrition in agriculture projects, do you give up economic growth objectives, or can you tackle both at the same time? In this blog, SPRING agriculture advisor Victor...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Zambia

High Iron Stores in the Low Malaria Season Increase Malaria Risk in the High Transmission Season in a Prospective Cohort of Rural Zambian Children

Evidence suggests that higher iron stores may lead to a greater risk of malaria. This study, conducted in rural Zambia among children in a biofortified maize trial, assessed the link...

Keywords: Anemia
Location: Zambia

Caregiver Capabilities: A Hidden Link between Agriculture, Nutrition and Child Health (in the series Agriculture-Nutrition-Health linkages: Research in the African context)

Dr. Cynthia Matare lead the first of five installments in a joint webinar series from The ANH Academy and the African Nutrition Society exploring critical links between agriculture,...

Keywords: Agriculture, Women's empowerment
Location: Zambia

Triggering for Positive Behaviour Change in Nutrition

This technical brief provides an overview of community SBCC and triggering on positive nutrition and hygiene behaviours. It summarises some key insights and findings from Sustainable...

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Dietary diversity, Social and behavior change communication
Location: Zambia, Uganda

Life Beyond Maize

This seven-minute video shows Zambia's double malnutrition burden: stunting and overweight. A major cause is the limited diversity of Zambia’s food production and consumption: 94 percent of...

Keywords: Dietary diversity, Agriculture
Location: Zambia

A Different Strategy: Integrating Gender and Nutrition within the Zambia National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Strategy

Access to a well-rounded extension system provides key support to the 6 million people working in Zambia’s agriculture sector. Agriculture accounts for up to 85% of Zambia’s workforce and...

Keywords: Agriculture, Food security
Location: Zambia

Aflatoxins and Extension in Zambia Webinar

Agricultural extension services play an important role in disseminating production information to small farmers, especially on issues like aflatoxins. But in extension services in Zambia,...

Keywords: Aflatoxin, Gender
Location: Zambia

Provitamin A Carotenoid–Biofortified Maize Consumption Increases Pupillary Responsiveness among Zambian Children in a Randomized Controlled Trial

An impaired ability to respond to dark conditions suggests Vitamin A deficiency. This article outlines result of a study conducted in Zambia, in which researchers tested consumption of...

Keywords: Fortification, Agriculture
Location: Zambia

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

Facilitating Systemic Change: Insights from Feed the Future Programs in Rwanda, Senegal, Ghana, and Zambia

This webinar, hosted by the Leveraging Economic Opportunities (LEO) activity, shares how four Feed the Future projects in Sub-Saharan Africa have contributed to systemic change. These...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Rwanda, Senegal, Ghana, Zambia

INGENAES Global Symposium and Learning Exchange

This upcoming symposium in Zambia will share past experiences, human-centered design, and innovations in gender and nutrition issues in extension. It aims to provide nutrition specialists,...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender
Location: Zambia

Does 25 Cents More per Day Make a Difference? The Impact of Livestock Transfer and Development in Rural Zambia

Transfers of food-producing livestock encourage direct consumption of such foods, while transfer of other livestock assets (draft cattle) encourages non-food expenditures by the...

Keywords: Agriculture
Location: Zambia

Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) Project: Impact Evaluation Report

The Realigning Agriculture to Improve Nutrition (RAIN) project aimed to design, implement and evaluate a model of multi-sectoral integration of interventions to reduce the prevalence of...

Keywords: Agriculture, Infant and young child feeding, Community mobilization
Location: Zambia

Social Protection and Nutrition: Pathways, Systems, and Country Experience

This webinar highlighted the importance of an integrated nutrition-sensitive social protection system. Field examples are from Bangladesh, Zambia, Myanmar, and Nigeria.

Keywords: Nutrition-sensitive
Location: Bangladesh, Zambia, Myanmar, Nigeria