Home-grown school feeding: promoting local production systems diversification through nutrition sensitive agriculture

Designing Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Activities

Improving community development by linking agriculture, nutrition and education: design of a randomised trial of “home-grown” school feeding in Mali

BACKGROUND Providing food through schools has well documented effects in terms of the education, health and nutrition of school children. However, there is limited evidence in terms of the benefits of providing a reliable market for small-holder farmers through "home-grown" school feeding approaches. This study aims to evaluate the impact of school feeding programmes sourced from small-holder f...

How to engage across sectors: lessons from agriculture and nutrition in the Brazilian School Feeding Program

OBJECTIVE To provide insights for nutrition and public health practitioners on how to engage with other sectors to achieve public health goals. Specifically, this study provides lessons from the example of integrating family farming and a nutrition into a legal framework in Brazil on how to successfully shift other sectors toward nutrition goals. METHODS The study analyzed policy processes th...

Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture for Rural and Urban Health

Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Tool (Nutri-SAT) Ethiopian Pilot Study

Background The relationship between agriculture and nutrition extends throughout the various stages of the food value chain, from production to markets and on to final usage by the food consumer. However, improvements along the value chain which increase income, food production and market availability do not ensure that nutritionally vulnerable populations will consume more nutritious foods, le...