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USAID Advancing Nutrition

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USAID Advancing Nutrition is the Agency’s flagship multi-sectoral nutrition project, led by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI), and a diverse group of experienced partners. We strengthen the enabling environment for and support country-led scale-up of effective, integrated and sustainable multi-sectoral nutrition programs, interventions and food and health systems. Our expertise spans sectors and contexts, enabling us to work with partners and stakeholders to strengthen nutrition outcomes in development and humanitarian response settings.

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Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste

Jul 20, 2023 online

Food environments play a significant role in shaping food purchasing and consumption behaviors, affecting diets and nutrition. Join to hear about a pilot study conducted by USAID Advancing Nutriton in four LMICs to evaluate a package of seven food environment assessments for their functionality and suitability.  

Markets and Trade Nutrition

Women gather in a circle at one of the nutrition-sensitive agriculture trainings. Credit: JSI

Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India

Findings from human-centered design formative research on agriculture and diet behaviors.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Mar 16, 2023

Agricultural Productivity Gender Nutrition

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Apply Now! Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Training of Trainers Workshop

The workshop will provide an orientation to the Design Guide materials, an overview of best practices in peer-led facilitation and the opportunity to facilitate critical sessions in the workshop.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Nov 04, 2022

Nutrition Opportunities

Tomato retailers at a market in the Morogoro region of Tanzania tell Hellen Samwel (center), an enumerator with AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center, about the postharvest losses they experience.

Measuring Healthy Diets to Advance Nutrition Globally Using the Diet Quality Questionnaire

Assessing and monitoring positive and negative characteristics of diets is key to understanding the causes of poor health and nutrition outcomes.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Nov 02, 2021

Nutrition

Two women in colorful saris are waist-deep in a body of water and are wearing fish nets around their necks with which to catch small fish. The woman on the right is holding a small fish above the water.

The Power of Local Partnerships to Scale Nutrition Programs in India

Lessons and recommendations from USAID’s scaling innovative, nutrition-sensitive fisheries technologies and integrated approaches through partnerships in Odisha, India.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Sep 08, 2021

Nutrition

Six women in colorful sari's sit on a white tarp around plates of various foods.

Food Safety is a Key Ingredient for Women’s Healthy Diets

Improving food safety and advancing gender equality is fundamental to good nutrition.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Jun 30, 2021

Food Safety Gender

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Global Survey on Program Experiences with Family Engagement for Improved Nutrition

Share your programmatic experiences in engaging family members in addition to mothers (such as grandmothers, fathers and others) to improve maternal, child and adolescent nutrition.

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Mar 26, 2021

Gender Nutrition

Image of three young girls at an outdoor market. The girl towards the back of the image is wearing a yellow t-shirt and eating something, the next girl is sitting to her left and is wearing a white camisole and a black head covering. The third girl is towards the right side of the frame and is wearing a black and green sports jersey.

Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank Launch

Mar 11, 2021 online

The Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank is designed to help improve and expand adolescent nutrition programs and services.

Education and Extension Gender Nutrition

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Assessing Predictors and Metrics of Diet Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: The Intersection of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

Nov 04, 2020 online

Join the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition for a webinar that will examine patterns in dietary diversity and quality in South Asian and Sub-Saharan African contexts.

Nutrition

The Malawi Food Composition Database: Importance, Development Process, Applications, and Future Priorities

Oct 21, 2020 online

Join this webinar to learn more about the collaborative effort to develop Malawi’s first food composition table/database.

Nutrition

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Enhancing Food Environment Assessment Tools for LMICs: Lessons from a Pilot Study in Liberia, Honduras, Nigeria, and Timor-Leste

Women’s Empowerment: An Essential Ingredient for Improved Nutrition in India

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Apply Now! Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Training of Trainers Workshop

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Measuring Healthy Diets to Advance Nutrition Globally Using the Diet Quality Questionnaire

USAID Advancing Nutrition

The Power of Local Partnerships to Scale Nutrition Programs in India

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Food Safety is a Key Ingredient for Women’s Healthy Diets

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Global Survey on Program Experiences with Family Engagement for Improved Nutrition

USAID Advancing Nutrition

Adolescent Nutrition Resource Bank Launch

Assessing Predictors and Metrics of Diet Quality in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: The Intersection of Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health

The Malawi Food Composition Database: Importance, Development Process, Applications, and Future Priorities

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