2011 Hunger Report
Summary: This report covers the role of the United States in mobilizing global commitments to increase investments in agriculture, food security, and nutrition...
USAID's Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project
Region: Global
A Micronutrient Powder with Low Doses of Highly Absorbable Iron and Zinc Reduces Iron and Zinc Deficiency and Improves Weight-For-Age Z-Scores in South African Children
Summary: This article, published in the Journal of Nutrition in December 2010, examines the efficacy for reducing iron and zinc deficiency, and for reducing...
A Roadmap for US Leadership to End Global Hunger
Summary: This roadmap and supporting documents, assembled by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, sets forth a comprehensive and strategic plan that...
Achieving Nutritional Impact and Food Security through Agriculture
Summary: This four-page fact sheet summarizes ways that agriculture projects can maximize nutrition and food security of women, children, and other vulnerable...
Anemia Prevention and Control: What Works
Summary: Part I of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good...
Anthropometric Indicators Measurement Guide
Summary: This revised guide provides information on the anthropometric impact indicators and the annual monitoring indicators for maternal and child...
Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: Revised, Updated and Expanded for Integrated Care
Summary: Part I of this document gives background information on the prevalence and causes of anemia by region, and discusses program approaches and good...
Behavior change interventions and child nutritional status: Evidence from the promotion of improved complementary feeding practices
Summary: Analyzes behavior change interventions aiming to improve complementary feeding practices and children’s nutritional status and provides...
Beyond survival: Integrated delivery care practices for long-term maternal and infant nutrition, health and development
Summary: This document discusses nutrition and health interventions in the immediate postpartum/natal period: delayed cord clamping to increase stores of iron...
Bushes that Grow Are the Future Forest: Using radio to improve infant and young child feeding in Zambia
This document describes IYCN’s experience developing Bushes that Grow Are the Future Forest, a radio series on infant and young child feeding. Lessons...