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The report assesses the nutritional status (current and trends) of adolescent girls and women of reproductive age (15-49 years), with a particular focus on undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and anaemia. The report’s...

A nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) is a food value chain that has been shaped to alleviate constraints in the supply or demand of food, as they relate to dietary and nutrition problems...

Highlights This study provides a systematic review of literature on women's status and their role in improving food security. Previously a number of review studies were published...

Fermentation is an ancient processing technique that relies on microbes to transform raw materials into products with increased food safety, commercial value, nutritional value, health features, and sensory...

Structural and rural transformation in a country are intricately linked to food system outcomes. Structural transformation captures a country’s level of dependence on agriculture, while rural transformation...

The road to a resilient future and building back better needs to be inspired by indigenous peoples and their food systems. Indigenous peoples are the custodians of large natural...

Agricultural biodiversity is a strategic asset to fight climate change vulnerability, poverty, and food and nutrition insecurity. The wealth of food crops is estimated at 5,000 species (Kew Royal...

One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds. This means that every year, about 2 million babies are stillborn. This loss reaches far beyond the loss...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding from the European Union, and the USAID-funded Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA) have published a guide for measuring...

Micronutrients not only benefit women’s health during childbearing years and during pregnancy and lactation, but they also have substantial impact on women’s health during...