The rapid growth of the human population in West Africa makes malnutrition a pressing issue. This paper highlights the predicted nutritional issues in West Africa by 2030. Data were...
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West Africa has a high burden of malnutrition and the drivers are often complex, highly context-specific, and cut across individual, social, political and environmental domains. Public...
Four years ago, a group of senior scientists from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), along with representatives from the Bill &...
Transform Nutrition West Africa has identified key priorities for future action in the West Africa region. It has done so in consultation with stakeholders, including...
The past decade has seen a growing global and regional momentum to prioritize nutrition and to develop actionable programs for improved nutrition and more effective food systems. This momentum...
This note provides guidance for improving nutrition-relevant policy in West Africa, drawn from a comprehensive policy review of nutrition-relevant policies in 16 countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape...
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), including in Africa south of the Sahara, face a “new nutrition reality” (Popkin, Corvalan, and Grummer-Strawn 2020) referred to as the double burden of malnutrition...
At a point where there is a strong need to make the best use of available resources in order to address multiple malnutrition burdens in low- and middleincome countries, there is a growing...
High-quality knowledge and evidence is critical for supporting effective and coherent programs and policies. Strengthening research networks can help support collaboration, cross-pollination, sharing of best practices...
Adolescence is an important period of physical and cognitive development during which optimal nutrition is crucial. It is an essential time for forming preferences and habits and a key window of opportunity...