Field Stories September 3, 2020 Female entrepreneur becomes nutrition champion in her village In 2018, Anita opened a fair price shop in her village of Kothisodpur, in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
Blog Posts August 6, 2020 Breastfeeding – from mine to theirs Motherhood is a beautiful, yet complicated, and life-changing event that I experienced fifteen years ago when my daughter came into this world (albeit three weeks early).
Field Stories August 6, 2020 With breastfeeding and kangaroo mother care, baby Prapti gets a healthier start to life In the village of Gayag, in Gujarat, India, 27-year-old Ilaben endured a difficult pregnancy before giving birth to her daughter, Prapti.
Blog Posts July 29, 2020 #NutritionCantWait — Asia Coordination Group launches advocacy campaign The COVID-19 pandemic is a health and human crisis that also threatens the food security and nutrition of millions of people around the world.
Field Stories July 24, 2020 The power of zinc: Nowfel’s story At 23 months old, Nowfel developed diarrhoea which took longer to subside. Usually smiling and playful, Nowfel became increasingly pale and weak.
Blog Posts July 3, 2020 Sustaining fortification of staple foods critical to Indonesia’s COVID-19 response In Indonesia, wheat flour fortification has come a long way, but the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to set back the progress that has been made.
Blog Posts June 30, 2020 Canada can lead way globally in addressing malnutrition Canada is a leading middle power. We can’t lead everywhere. Instead, we must choose a set of strategic, high-impact areas of strength and focus on moving those issues forward.
Blog Posts June 18, 2020 COVID-19’s triple threat to gender equality, nutrition and future potential What started as a novel virus soon resulted in global economic shutdown that is creating a malnutrition crisis felt the world over.
Blog Posts June 17, 2020 Doing Development Differently: increasing domestic investments for nutrition Nutrition International co-created and developed a new investment model with Kenyan counties: sub-national, performance-based matched-funding arrangements.
Blog Posts June 15, 2020 COVID-19 will worsen the already abysmal state of nutrition among women The COVID-19 pandemic has both marginalized women from accessing primary care as well as severely affected the nutritional intake of adolescent girls and women.