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Nutrition Innovation Lab

Orange Maize for a Nutrition Boost in Zambia
Photo Credit: Chando Mapoma, USAID

The Nutrition Innovation Lab is identifying ways that policy and program interventions, particularly those that involve agriculture, can most effectively achieve large-scale improvements for maternal and child nutrition, while enhancing institutional and human research and policymaking capacitates.

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Malawi’s First Dietetics Program: Lessons from a Multi-Pronged Approach to Building Human and Institutional Capacity for Nutrition

Oct 07, 2020 online
Learn more about a pioneering dietetics program that has led to the genesis of the dietetics profession in Malawi; the development, implementation, challenges and future directions. 
Education and Extension Nutrition Policy and Governance
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Novel Metrics to Support Research, Programming, and Policy in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health: Findings from India, Nepal and Ghana

Sep 16, 2020 online
A webinar to learn more about the research findings and policy and programmatic implications from the studies conducted in India, Nepal, and Ghana
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Resilience
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Animal Source Foods and Child Nutrition in Bangladesh, Nepal and Uganda

Aug 05, 2020 online
Examining the role of ASFs in improving the nutritional status of vulnerable populations and present findings from the Innovation Lab for Nutrition’s studies in Nepal, Uganda and Bangladesh.
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Nutrition
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Aquaculture-Horticulture Linkages & Innovative Technologies in Bangladesh

Jun 17, 2020 online

Join Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition in their upcoming webinar series. Designed to inform and engage stakeholders, this series will cover research conducted by the Innovation Lab for...

Agricultural Productivity Education and Extension Food Safety Markets and Trade Nutrition
Maize with mold growth. Photo credit: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition

Mycotoxin Mitigation is Key to Food Safety and Nutrition: New Research from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition

New research from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition (NIL) tells us that exposure to mycotoxins through the diet is widespread in resource-constrained areas of the world. These...

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Nutrition Innovation Lab

Jun 03, 2020
Food Safety Markets and Trade Gender Nutrition
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Why Nutrition Is Part of the Whole

Nutrition, it is evident, is not a silo, and is, according to the Nutrition Innovation Lab results, part of a whole complex system which needs to be examined together.

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Nutrition Innovation Lab

Feb 28, 2020
Food Safety Nutrition
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National Dissemination Event: Mozambique

Feb 27, 2020 Polana Serena Hotel, Maputo 1380 Av. Julius Nyerere Maputo, Mozambique

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition will hold the national dissemination event to present results from the “Assessing the Relationship of Aflatoxin Exposure and Stunting in Children 6-59...

Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
Photo: Nutrition training practical demo.

It Takes Time and Effort to Create Measurable Change

Read up on Heifer International's newest approach to evaluating program impacts on child-specific outcomes, namely growth and diet quality.

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Nutrition Innovation Lab

Nov 02, 2017
Education and Extension Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Policy and Governance
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Building Capacity for Clinical Nutrition in Malawi: The Development of a Dietetics Program

The 18-month program consists of two semesters of rigorous, graduate-level coursework and 1,200 hours of practical application in local hospital settings.

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Nutrition Innovation Lab

May 26, 2017
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning
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Understanding Agriculture to Nutrition Linkages: A Rapidly Moving Agenda

Sep 30, 2015 The Willard Office Building 1455 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Suite 800 Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States

Increasing the impact of agriculture investments on nutrition is a major focus for the international development community. The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition led a research-to-practice seminar to...

Nutrition Policy and Governance

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There’s still so much we need to understand about how to design better national and local actions to improve nutrition.  Reducing poverty is not enough. Growing more food is not enough. Giving out nutrient supplements is also not enough. Each of these is necessary, but not sufficient. So we are generating empirical evidence on how these things are linked, and where the leverage points for action reside. Gaining a better understanding of the interconnections between national policies, field-level programming, and household choices and behaviors has far-reaching implications for guiding USAID nutrition-sensitive investments in coming years.

 

Lead Institute
Tufts University

 

 Focus countries
Nepal, Uganda, Malawi , Bangladesh, Egypt, Cambodia

 

US-based partners
Harvard School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Purdue University, Tuskegee University

 

Focus-country partners
See a list of our international partners here.

 

Learn more
Visit our website to find out where we’re working, to see upcoming events, and to read our latest publications.

 

Stay in touch
Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date on our latest work or contact Dr. Patrick Webb, Director of Nutrition Innovation Lab, for more information.

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