Nutrient-dense crops
Job Aids and Tools
These picture-based cards are used to educate members of agribusiness centers and farmer-based organizations on pumpkin production and storage.
Galleries
Under the UPAVAN project, SPRING and Digital Green create community videos promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture practices in Odisha, India.
Location: India
On January 26, 2017, members of a local community video production team shot a short video about the benefits of orange-fleshed sweet potato.
Location: Senegal
These photos depict SPRING’s work implemented in the northern region of Mopti, Mali, from December 2014 to March 2016.
Location: Mali
SPRING’s extensive fieldwork studied nutrient-rich value chain commodities (NRVCC) that direct beneficiaries produce and set aside for home consumption.
Training Materials
Farmer Nutrition School (FNS) is a community-based learning approach that promotes the Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) and the Essential Hygiene Actions (EHA) by teaching the production...
This guide incorporates ENA and EHA in each session to encourage families to adopt improved practices in health and nutrition as well as HFP, when they have pregnant women and/or children...
Activities
SPRING/Guinea tested an approach to grow cowpeas during the off-season to see if they could achieve sufficient yields to serve as a source of protein.
Location: Guinea
Findings to guide SPRING’s work to strengthen nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Guinea
SPRING’s extensive fieldwork studied nutrient-rich value chain commodities (NRVCC) that direct beneficiaries produce and set aside for home consumption.
Reports
This study provides insight into the factors that motivate households to take up production of nutrient-dense foods, to consume nutritious foods that they produce rather than sell, and to...
Location: Bangladesh