Resiliency

News

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SPRING Places in Top Three for Zilient’s 2017 Resilience Awards

SPRING’s community video approach in the Sahel places third in award that recognizes unique and compelling projects that impact real lives.

Keywords: Community, Community media, Handwashing, Resiliency, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition
Location: Sahel

Activities

Harvesting cowpeas

Testing Approaches: Growing Cowpeas during Dry Season to Improve Dietary Diversity for 1,000-day Households in Guinea

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.

Keywords: Agriculture, Dietary diversity, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Nutrient-dense crops, Resiliency, Thousand days
Location: Guinea
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Formative Research Assessment Highlights Locally Available Nutrient-Dense Crops and Key Hygiene Behaviors in Guinea

Findings to guide SPRING’s work to strengthen nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Guinea

Keywords: Nutrient-dense crops, Social and behavior change communication, Handwashing, Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Infant and young child feeding, Maternal, infant, and young child nutrition, Agriculture, Nutrition-sensitive, Resiliency, Thousand days
Location: Guinea

Technical Areas

Community Media for Nutrition

Throughout its global programming, SPRING is harnessing the power of innovative community media to improve maternal, infant, and young child nutrition (MIYCN) and hygiene practices.

Keywords: Water, sanitation, and hygiene, Resiliency

Resource Review Summaries

Synthesis of Evaluations Related to the Feed the Future Learning Agenda

Nearly 200 performance and impact evaluations of Feed the Future programs were reviewed using the lens of the Feed the Future Learning Agenda to produce this report. Six themes and...

Keywords: Agriculture, Gender, Resiliency

Seven Food System Metrics of Sustainable Nutrition Security

This paper proposes a new food security assessment methodology based on the concept of sustainable nutrition security (SNS). The model defines seven metrics: (1) food nutrient adequacy; (2...

Keywords: Food security, Resiliency, Food systems, Agriculture

Building Resilient Food Systems through Agroecological Principles and Practices

Agroecology applies ecological concepts and principles to the design and management of sustainable food systems, potentially strengthening resilience among smallholder farmers and their...

Keywords: Resiliency, Food systems

Highlights: Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security

IFPRI organized a 3-day conference focused on resilience and nutrition security, as part of its “2020 Vision Initiative”. Discussion between participants revolved around emerging shocks,...

Keywords: Resiliency

USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014-2025

USAID’s Nutrition Strategy embodies a multi-sectoral approach to address both direct and underlying causes of malnutrition. With this strategy, USAID aims to decrease chronic malnutrition,...

Keywords: Multi-sector, Stunting, Malnutrition, Resiliency

Growing Enough Nutritious Food amid Climate Change

This blog by World Bank Vice President Rachel Kyte highlights efforts to take climate-smart agriculture to scale through the “triple win” approach of increasing productivity and income,...

Keywords: Sustainability, Resiliency, Agriculture