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This focus area, powered by DSM, is exploring innovative solutions to improve nutrition, tackle malnutrition, and influence policies and funding.

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Focus On: Improving Nutrition

Okra, onions, peas: Could permagardens help solve refugee malnutrition?

By Rebecca Root
Devex
Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Fragile states need more donor flexibility to improve nutrition

By Teresa Welsh
Devex
Focus on: Improving Nutrition

The environmental impact of balancing the food system is still unknown

By Lisa Cornish
Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Funders are searching for food systems of the future

The Rockefeller Foundation is asking organizations from around the world to offer their visions for food systems that will deliver sustainable, nourishing diets in their local area, offering an example of how philanthropy can support scaleable ideas.

Focus on: Improving nutrition

The EAT-Lancet Diet is unaffordable, but who is to blame?

While new criticism of the EAT-Lancet diet focused on its lack of affordability for 1.6 billion of the world's poorest, researchers say that food and economic systems are to blame, not the diet.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

The SUN Movement confronts its future

After a 2018 progress report found most Scaling Up Nutrition Movement countries to be lagging on key indicators, the movement is taking stock and assessing how it can use its network to spur global progress on nutrition ahead of the Tokyo Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2020.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Women at center of post-earthquake nutrition efforts in Nepal

Nepal's 2015 earthquake made safe shelter a priority over nutrition and set the country on a path toward overreliance on packaged food. Now, women play a key role in improving their families' health and well-being.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Communities count on resilience tactics to survive Honduras' pattern of drought

As the impact of drought compounds in Honduras' dry corridor, comprehensive resilience programming aims to ensure food security and improved nutrition for communities prone to losing their crops.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

'Must do more, better and faster,' SUN progress report on malnutrition says

Only 11 of 61 Scaling Up Nutrition Movement countries are on track to meet WHA stunting-reduction targets by 2025, according to a new report.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Insects: From exotic to essential food against malnutrition?

Three years ago, Paijit Sangchai expanded his business to sell crickets fried as snacks, or powdered for use in ramen and pasta. But is the world ready to take up insects as food to fight malnutrition?

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Philippines' multisector approach to break the cycle of stunting

The Philippines is looking at improving cross-government collaboration and the regulatory framework to address sub-standard nutrition outcomes in the country.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

UN agencies' consensus on healthy diet principles

As the global hunger index reveals 43 countries with “serious” levels of hunger, U.N. agencies chart strategies to ensure healthy food for the world's population.

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Opinion: Why fortified rice is a game changer

Fortifying rice, the world number one staple food, is on the nutrition agenda and a growing number of governments, rice companies, NGOs, donors, and U.N. agencies see the need to make rice more nutritious. DSM’s Judith Smit explains why fortifying rice is the way forward.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

To face climate change, Guatemalan farmers change their ways

Farmers in Guatemala are coming to terms with a new climate reality by adopting new farming practices to maximize harvest. Devex reports from the country's Dry Corridor.

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Nutrition in Asia-Pacific shows mixed progress

The prevalence of stunting has decreased in most countries in the Asia-Pacific, in contrast to wasting. Here are three data points from ADB's latest key indicators for the region.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

The role WASH programming plays in tackling malnutrition

Devex speaks with WASH experts about the role this programming plays in global efforts to tackle malnutrition.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Farmer and entrepreneur win $100,000 Africa Food Prize

“Don’t say you have nothing. Emma only has one acre — and today she has won Africa’s greatest food prize.”

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Q&A: Africa's new nutrition strategy

African health ministers adopted a new strategic plan to reduce the "double burden" of malnutrition. We take a look at the strategy's regulatory reforms and public outreach campaigns.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Opinion: Protect our food. Fund the seed.

"If the seed controls the system, then the system needs to invest in seed," IFPRI's David Spielman explains.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

High cost of healthy food linked to stunting, new study finds

The prices of healthy and unhealthy foods in low- and middle-income countries explain some indicators of malnutrition, a new study from the International Food Policy Research Institute finds.

Focus on: Improving Nutrition

Can the EAT-Lancet diet work for the global south?

The EAT-Lancet Commission attempted to map out a healthy, sustainable diet to feed the world's growing population — but some say it is not realistic for low-income settings.

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