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Cattle attempt to graze in parched agricultural land between the capital of Addis Ababa and the town of Nazret, Ethiopia. This now barren landscape had been forest in the 1970's.

The Project-Early Level Warning Interest Group October 2015 Meeting

27 October 2015

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.

sachet of Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements

Meeting Shared Evidence and Programmatic Considerations for the Use of Small Quantity Lipid-based Nutrient Supplements for the Prevention of Malnutrition

16 October 2015

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.

2nd International Conference on Global Food Security. 11-14 October 2015. Ithaca, NY, USA

FANTA Attends 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security

14 October 2015

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.

Three smiling children sit in a row in Guatemala.

Promoting the Consumption of Animal-Source Food to Optimize the Diets of Women and Young Children in the Western Highlands of Guatemala

2 October 2015

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.

Three people holding a card.

FANTA Staff Mark World Food Day

1 October 2015

This year for World Food Day, FANTA staff answered the question "How do you break the cycle of world poverty?"

Basket full of variety of foods like fish, grains, and leafy vegetables.

Impact Story: Measuring the Quality of Women’s Diets

30 September 2015

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.

Training on the use of the BMI wheel to assess nutritional status in Côte d’ivoire.

The Role of Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support in Health Systems

30 September 2015

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.

Costing Approach Raises Awareness of Malnutrition in Guatemala

28 September 2015

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.

Clean, Fed & Nurtured. Joining forces to promote child growth and development.

Measuring Clean, Fed, & Nurtured: Indicators for Child Growth and Development, October 6, 2015 Presentation and Discussion

25 September 2015

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.

First page of technical brief on counseling effect on weight gain during pregnancy

Evidence on the Effectiveness of Counseling on Excess Weight Gain during Pregnancy

17 September 2015

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.

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