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Research and Development
Increased Fish Intake Improves Brain Development for Young Children
KenyaKristen Dechert

This post is by Kristen Dechert and Melissa Chapnick and originally appeared on the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Fish website. Dechert is the marketing and communications manager at the Fish Innovation Lab and is based at Mississippi State Univ...

Training and Capacity Building
Practical  Approaches to  Youth and  Women’s  Inclusion in  Market  Systems
All CountriesFeed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE...

In our recent webinar discussing the findings from the Feed the Future Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE) landscape analysis and case studies on women and youth inclusion in agricultural market systems, we were joined by RisiAlbania and ELAN RDC, tw...

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3 Marketing Factors for Animal Source Food System Success
All CountriesThe Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food...

The Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security (EEFS) project recently launched an analytical guidance document identifying the enabling environment factors that drive animal source food (ASF) market system success in terms of economic gr...

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Being the Agile Boss MIT 2020
All CountriesLinda A. Hill

Leading in late 2020 means carving a new path through an epic disruption precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has spawned health, economic, and social crises that have rendered the best-laid plans useless. With no roadmap for the marathon ahe...

Agri-Food News and Media
Annual Report 2019
All CountriesCGIAR

As the largest network of agricultural research organizations in the world, CGIAR is uniquely positioned to be a thought leader and global convener on the use of big data and information technology in agriculture. The CGIAR Platform for Big Data i...

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COVID-19: Shocks on Nutrition and Potential Mitigation USAID Guiding Principles and Recommendations
All CountriesUSAID

This document was developed under the auspices of USAID’sNutrition Leadership Council (NLC). It summarizes the likely impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on nutrition and proposes guiding principles for priority actions during the response and recovery ph...

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Preventing a Food Crisis: Stories from the Field
All CountriesFeed The Future

As COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, it has rocked economies to their core. This is especially true in developing countries, where safety nets and structures for resilience are nascent, fragile or do not exist. Feed the Future is leveragin...

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Leveraging Innovation for a Progressive Africa
All CountriesAfrican Peer Review Mechanism (APRM)

The publication of this youth-inspired edition coincides with the International Youth Day, 12 August 2020. The theme for this International Youth Day, “Youth Engagement for Global Action”, seeks to highlight the ways in which the engagement of young...

Research and Development
Food Security Monitor; Africa Food Trade and Resilience Initiative
All CountriesAGRA

Food trade in East Africa during the month was characterized by trade deficits across major commodities in all the AGRA-focus countries. Most countries had trade deficits with a few countries recording exports. Import dependency was high in the whe...

Research and Development
Farming Practices and Crop Varietal Choice among Ugandan Bean and Sweet Potato Producers
UgandaCatherine Larochelle, Ricardo Labarta, Enid Katung...

The common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, and white- or yellow-fleshed sweet potatoes, Ipomoea batatas, are widely grown in Uganda as both food and cash crops. Beans and sweet potatoes are common staples in Uganda, providing hearty, affordable nourishm...

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Fragile Contexts
All CountriesGlobal Panel

“Single hazards are a major challenge to reducing poverty and malnutrition but the combined impact of multiple hazards can be devastating. COVID-19 has further amplified these and risks pushing fragile food systems further into nutritional crisis.”...

Nutrition
Are We There Yet? The Rigorousness of Impact Evaluations of Nutrition-Sensitive Agricultural Interventions
All CountriesWill Meister

What defines a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention? Like other food-based approaches, a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention looks toward food to improve nutrition instead of toward fortification or supplementation. A nutrition-se...

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