USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project and the Alliance to End Hunger present
Bringing nutrition to the forefront of agriculture
A forum for agriculture project designers
Date: Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM
Location: PATH
10th Floor, Room 1061
455 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001, USA
(Please note our new location)
Please join us to discuss the linkages between agriculture and nutrition programming. The half-day event will feature a forum on the integration of nutritional concerns into agricultural programming, and a practicum on the assessment and improvement of agricultural project designs to maximize nutrition and food security outcomes. The discussion forum will focus on a review of evidence on the nutrition and food security impacts of agriculture interventions, and best practices that emerged from the review. IYCN will introduce newly revised planning tools for promoting and protecting the nutritional concerns of mothers and children in agricultural development efforts. Ann Steensland, Chief of Staff, Alliance to End Hunger, will moderate the event.
Please RSVP to info@iycn.org.
Agenda
9:00 Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 Opening remarks: Ambassador Tony Hall, Executive Director, Alliance to End Hunger
9:45 Part 1. Review of evidence and discussion forum: Maximizing the nutrition and food security impacts of agricultural interventions
11:45 Lunch
12:00 Part 2. Practicum: New tools for agriculture project designers
1:30 Closing
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