[HTML][HTML] Nutrition-sensitive agriculture: what have we learned so far?

MT Ruel, AR Quisumbing, M Balagamwala - Global food security, 2018 - Elsevier
A growing number of governments, donor agencies, and development organizations are
committed to supporting nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) to achieve their development …

The role of nanotechnology in the fortification of plant nutrients and improvement of crop production

EE Elemike, IM Uzoh, DC Onwudiwe, OO Babalola - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Nutrient deficiency in food crops is seriously affecting human health, especially those in the
rural areas, and nanotechnology may become the most sustainable approach to alleviating …

[HTML][HTML] Combining intensive counseling by frontline workers with a nationwide mass media campaign has large differential impacts on complementary feeding …

P Menon, PH Nguyen, KK Saha, A Khaled… - The Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
abstract Background: Complementary feeding (CF) contributes to child growth and
development, but few CF programs are delivered at scale. Alive & Thrive addressed this in …

Impacts on breastfeeding practices of at-scale strategies that combine intensive interpersonal counseling, mass media, and community mobilization: results of cluster …

P Menon, PH Nguyen, KK Saha, A Khaled… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite recommendations supporting optimal breastfeeding, the number of
women practicing exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) remains low, and few interventions have …

[HTML][HTML] Using a community-based early childhood development center as a platform to promote production and consumption diversity increases children's dietary …

A Gelli, A Margolies, M Santacroce, N Roschnik… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Children in Malawi face nutritional risks related to low-quality diets and chronic
malnutrition. Objective This study evaluated the impact of a 1-y early childhood development …

What implementation evidence matters: scaling‐up nurturing interventions that promote early childhood development

PR Britto, M Singh, T Dua, R Kaur… - Annals of the New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Research in early childhood development (ECD) has established the need for scaling‐up
multisectoral interventions for nurturing care to promote ECD, for improved socioeconomic …

Child-centered food systems: Reorienting food systems towards healthy diets for children

C Hawkes, E Fox, SM Downs, J Fanzo, K Neve - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
Current food systems are failing to guide children towards healthy diets. This paper presents
a tool to identify the actions needed to reorient food systems to become more child-centred …

Conceptual frameworks linking agriculture and food security

CF Nicholson, B Kopainsky, EC Stephens, D Parsons… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Many conceptual frameworks have been developed to facilitate understanding and analysis
of the linkages between agriculture and food security. Despite having usefully guided …

Neurodevelopment: the impact of nutrition and inflammation during infancy in low-resource settings

NF Krebs, B Lozoff, MK Georgieff - Pediatrics, 2017 - publications.aap.org
Infancy and early childhood (ie, birth through age 24 months) represent a period of life with
both exquisite opportunity and vulnerability for neurodevelopment. This is due to rapid brain …

Exposure to mass media and interpersonal counseling has additive effects on exclusive breastfeeding and its psychosocial determinants among Vietnamese mothers

PH Nguyen, SS Kim, TT Nguyen… - Maternal & child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The pathways through which behavior change interventions impact breastfeeding practices
have not been well studied. This study aimed to examine:(1) the effects of exposure to mass …