On October 27, TANGO’s Tim Frankenberger discussed how analysis of real-time data collected during an in-progress shock presented a unique opportunity to understand how, in a time of increasing climatic variability throughout East Africa, droughts affect households, their responses, and whether their resilience capacity can help them recover.
October 14–16, 2015 in Washington, D.C., FANTA and the International Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (iLiNS) Project hosted a technical meeting to bring program implementers and researchers together to take stock of the lessons learned from operationalizing Small Quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements.
FANTA Food Security Technical Advisor Laura Glaeser presented the poster “Comparing Household Food Security Indicators to Inform IPC Acute Food Insecurity Phase Classification” at the 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security, October 11-14, 2015, at Cornell University. This poster is part of the culminating effort of a 3-year FANTA study undertaken in collaboration with the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
This technical brief summarizes findings related to consumption of animal-source food among women and children in the Western Highlands of Guatemala and offers key opportunities to provide support for improving access to animal-source food among the population.
This year for World Food Day, FANTA staff answered the question "How do you break the cycle of world poverty?"
Learn how FANTA, FAO, research partners, and donors worked to identify a simple global indicator for women’s dietary diversity, providing a new tool in the effort to improve the nutrition and health of women and children. A manual for collecting data for the indicator is in development.
Across the different countries where NACS operates, the role that NACS plays in the health system varies, as does its relationship to other nutrition platforms and programs. This brief explores various models, programming considerations, and issues and challenges.
Stunting levels in Guatemala are alarming, affecting half of children age 3 to 59 months. FANTA is helping Guatemala’s ministries of health and finance use activity-based costing to determine the costs of and better advocate for critical nutrition interventions needed to reduce stunting. The costing process is helping raise awareness in Guatemala of the need to invest more to improve nutrition.
Join the Clean, Fed & Nurtured consortium on October 6, 2015, 3:30–5:30 p.m. at FHI 360 for a presentation and discussion on indicators to assess holistic interventions for child growth and development with Dr. Edward Frongillo, Jr., from the University of South Carolina and Dr. Maureen Black from the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Overweight and obesity is the sixth most important contributor to worldwide burden of disease and is especially problematic during pregnancy, when the effects of poor nutritional status can have a negative impact on the health of the fetus. This brief summarizes the available evidence on the effectiveness of counseling on excess weight gain during pregnancy and provides recommendations that can be of practical use to antenatal care programs in developing countries.
