nutrition

NUTRITION

Blog
New study shows that income shocks, like those caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, can significantly reduce health and nutrition status of children under 5.
Webinar
Why is tenure security and landscape governance research important for addressing climate change, poverty alleviation, gender disparities, nutrition and health, environmental management and sustainability? Join our webinar on December 7 to hear from the experts!
Webinar
This webinar will share lessons from three recent survey experiments and discuss implications for estimates of nutrition and labor participation.
Blog
A new study provides insights into gender differences and welfare benefits from rural nonfarm enterprises, a crucial part of the PNG’s rural economy.
Events
Global evidence suggests that cash transfer programs, when combined with nutrition specific modalities, have the potential to improve child nutrition. But how much of those nutrition interventions would be enough to lead to sustainable improvements is yet not well understood. This seminar will aim to address remaining knowledge gaps on program design and policy options to make CT programming in the region more nutrition sensitive.
Blog
Papua New Guinea is home to approximately 7 million people, and is struggling to ensure adequate nutrition for its citizens. One of the country’s largest challenges is a lack of data to inform food security and nutrition indicators.
Blog
In this interview, recorded as part of our series "Why is social protection important for agriculture and resilience? Watch our colleagues explain!", Dr. Shalini Roy discusses how transfer programs can affect nutrition and gender relations in a household, and what role behavior change communication has to play.
Blog
Harold Alderman, senior research fellow at IFPRI and collaborator in PIM’s “Social Protection for Agriculture and Resilience” research flagship, speaks about the importance of transfer programs, how they can be improved, and how researchers can help in design of such programs. What else is required if social protection programs are to go beyond poverty alleviation and become graduation programs as well?
Blog
Behavior change communication (BCC) can improve infant and young child nutrition knowledge, practices, and health outcomes. However, few studies have examined whether the improved knowledge persists after BCC activities end. The new paper assesses the effect of nutrition sensitive social protection interventions on IYCN knowledge in rural Bangladesh, both during and after intervention activities.