Foreign aid donors are pushing to integrate nutrition into their food security programs while implementing partners are finding they have to adjust to suit those new priorities — and fast.
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These changes require new ways of thinking about agriculture and new project designs that encourage the collaboration between technical specialists and community health workers, among others.
In a recent video interview, Kimberly Flowers, director of communications for Fintrac, explained how organizations working to support a more integrated model for agriculture and nutrition programs have made the necessary changes to keep up with new donor demands and to scale up successful approaches.
Flowers also discussed what it will take to move U.S. food security and nutrition programs from one-off presidential initiatives to sustained development priorities.
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