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Nutrition

Agriculture, nutrition and health are intricately linked. Investments in agriculture lead to better nutrition for families, improve health and well-being, and boost food security.

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Identifying Food Safety Risks in Horticulture Value Chains in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Senegal and Nepal

Damage caused by unsafe handling practices can lead to both sorting out for physical losses and to quality losses with associated loss of market value.

Food Enterprise Solutions (FES)

Jun 22, 2021
Food Safety Markets and Trade Nutrition
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Cold Chain Management and Food Safety in Ethiopia, Rwanda, Senegal and Nepal

Research considers the importance of crops with respect to consumption status, nutritional aspects, degree of postharvest loss, food safety issue and scope to the business opportunities.

Food Enterprise Solutions (FES)

Jun 21, 2021
Food Safety Nutrition
four women walk down a dirt road carrying stacks of plants on their heads.

The Role of Biofortified Sweetpotato in Humanitarian Nutrition Interventions in Fragile Environments

A collaboration between CIP and the WFP seeks to improve the nutrition and livelihoods of vulnerable populations and could benefit more than 10 million people living in crises environments.

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Frederick Grant

Jun 03, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Nutrition Resilience
a woman distributes Vitamin A banana plantlets to farmers in Burundi.

Banana: The Low Hanging Fruit for Vitamin A Deficiency in Eastern Africa

Read how bananas support the fight against vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which remains a public health concern with devastating implications in sub-Saharan Africa, including East and Central Africa.

Beatrice Ekesa

Jun 02, 2021
Nutrition
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Sweet Resilience

Sweetpotato helps communities bounce back from humanitarian crises.

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Christopher Butler

May 27, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Nutrition Resilience
men working in a potato seed system in Ecuador. One image shows two men working together in the field and the other image shows a hand holding potatoes.

Evaluating Seed Systems to Guide Improvement: Variety Diffusion, Disease Management and Benefits

Seed systems are key in the distribution of high-quality seed and improved varieties. New tools for evaluating seed systems highlight the best improvements to provide benefits to all stakeholders.

Karen Garrett

May 26, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Climate and Natural Resources Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth
a woman sits with a small child in her lap. She is feeding the child sweetpotato from a bowl.

Let’s Eat Orange! Unleashing the Potential of Biofortified Sweetpotato in Africa

The vitamin A rich, orange-fleshed sweetpotato is used to combat malnutrition in Africa, but it required scientists, extensionists and community-based nutrition workers to promote its use.

Agrilinks Team

May 25, 2021
Nutrition
a group of women stand on either side of a stone trough processing fish in Joal, Senegal

Business Drivers for Food Safety Lead Provides Industry Insight in Magazine Interview

The technical lead for Feed the Future Business Drivers for Food Safety shares program objectives and food safety expertise with Food Logistics Magazine.

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Business Drivers for Food Safety

May 21, 2021
Food Safety Markets and Trade Nutrition
A man stands in a sand pit. He is removing sprouted sweet potato roots.

Let’s Build Back Better! A Strategy for Sweet Potato Vine Distribution

Learn about Triple S (storage in sand and sprouting), a root-based approach to maintain sweet potato vines over long dry seasons.

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Margaret McEwan

May 13, 2021
Agricultural Productivity Nutrition Resilience
A woman stands over a wooden crate filled with fish

Senegal's Artisanal Seafood Sector: A Food Safety Situational Analysis

While there are many health benefits to seafood consumption, seafood can carry a large variety of health hazards, potentially affecting millions of consumers in Senegal and neighboring countries.

Food Enterprise Solutions (FES)

May 11, 2021
Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition Policy and Governance Resilience Youth

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Help WEAI Help You: New Opportunities to Utilize the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index

Sep 16, 2015 Oceanic Room, Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is the first comprehensive and standardized measure to directly capture women’s empowerment and inclusion levels in the agricultural sector. Since its launch in...

Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Gender Gender Nutrition
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Implementing Africa's Commitments on Food Security, Agriculture and Nutrition

Jul 08, 2015 online

What is coming down the tracks in the next year as African governments prepare the next generation of CAADP country investment plans in response to the 2014 Malabo Declaration? What...

Agricultural Productivity Markets and Trade Nutrition
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Breaking the Mold: How Mycotoxins Impact Agriculture, Nutrition and Development

May 20, 2015 Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Horizon Room Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

Mycotoxins are toxic by-products of naturally occurring fungi that have serious health implications in humans and livestock. Found on grains, fruits and vegetables, acute and long-term exposure is associated with...

Agricultural Productivity Food Safety Nutrition
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#AskAg Twitter Chat: Aflatoxins 101

May 19, 2015 online
Aflatoxins are dangerous toxins produced by molds that grow on a wide variety of crops, including staples like maize and groundnuts. Consuming aflatoxin-contaminated food can result in impaired nutrient absorption...
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Scaling up Biofortification: Better Crops, Better Nutrition

May 12, 2015 online

Biofortification is a cost-effective, innovative approach to growing staple crops that are rich in vitamins and minerals. The process builds on traditional crop breeding techniques to improve micronutrients while maintaining...

Agricultural Productivity Nutrition
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2015 Feed the Future Innovation Labs Partners Meeting

Apr 20, 2015 to Apr 23, 2015 Lilongwe, Malawi
Update: 4/27/2015The Innovation Labs Partners Meeting in Malawi wrapped up with a field trip on Thursday, April 23. Attendees visited the Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains (INVC) project and Lilongwe...
Agricultural Productivity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Education and Extension Nutrition Policy and Governance
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Draft Guidance for USAID-Funded Nutrition-Sensitive Programming

Dec 15, 2014 online

Despite agriculture's vital link to nutrition, agricultural investments do not automatically improve the nutritional status of farming households. Recently, the term “nutrition-sensitive agriculture” has emerged as a way to define...

Nutrition Policy and Governance
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Rice Science to Ensure Global Nutrition and Food Security

Sep 24, 2014 Ronald Reagan Building, Oceanic A&B 1300 Pennsylvania Ave Washington, District of Columbia, 20002, United States

The challenges facing the world today to increase food supplies by more than 50 percent over the coming decades in the face of climate change are arguably much greater than...

Food Safety Nutrition
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#AskAg: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and USAID Strategy

Jul 24, 2014 online
Growing healthy foods is good. Making sure they're eaten is better. Ensuring projects and organizations support these efforts at the same time is best.Please join Agrilinks for an #AskAg Twitter...
Agricultural Productivity Nutrition Policy and Governance
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The USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy: Coordinating Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions

Jul 23, 2014 online

Timely, nutrition-specific interventions—taken to scale and deployed at critical points in the human life cycle—can have a dramatic impact on reducing global malnutrition. However, nutrition-specific interventions alone will not eliminate...

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