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Improving diets in rural Ghana: Food system analysis to identify opportunities for nutrition-sensitive small and medium enterprises
No full textThis publication presents an in-depth analysis of the food system in Ghana with the dual purpose of providing an overview of the current situation, and identifying opportunities for leveraging the role of small and medium-sized enterprises for nutrition-sensitive food systems. The data collected and the results of the analysis enhance the understanding of some of the challenges that, in the Ghanaian context, contribute to determining diet-related issues; more importantly, the analysis identifies opportunities and entry points for improving diets by overcoming some of the challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises. The information provided could be of support not only for further analyses, but also for planning interventions and designing policies to improve nutrition in Ghana and in other contexts.Non-PRIFPRI2; CRP2; GSSP; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural EconomiesDSGD; PHND; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Aulo Gelli, Pre-School Meals as a Platform for Behavior Change at Community Level: A Cluster Randomized Trial
No full textAulo Gelli POLICY SEMINAR Using Malawi’s Community-Based Childcare Centers to Implement an Agriculture and Nutrition Intervention Co-organized by IFPRI, the University of Washington led SEEMS nutrition project, and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health (A4NH
Hunger and learning : evidence on the costs and effectiveness of providing food through schools in food-insecure areas
Full text linkGlobally, over the last decade primary school access has improved significantly. Yet challenges remain: 67 million primary school-aged children are not in school. Poor nutrition and health among schoolchildren are important barriers in achieving education-for-all goals. School feeding is a popular intervention supporting the education, health and nutrition of children in food-insecure settings. However, school feeding programmes are complex, involving a broad range of stakeholders across different sectors and implementation levels.
This thesis is aimed at providing evidence to support policy-makers in managing trade-offs among alternative targeting approaches, feeding modalities, and costs. This work is also aimed at building an evidence-based framework to guide Governments in managing the inherent complexity of school feeding interventions.
The thesis includes an analysis of a natural experiment involving survey data from 32 countries across sub-Saharan Africa that suggested that school feeding increased enrolment by 10 percent. Enrolment changes varied by modality and gender, with onsite meals having stronger effects in the first year of treatment in lower grades, and onsite combined with take-home rations being effective post-year 1, particularly for girls. Expenditures across 62 countries indicated considerable differences in costs across modalities, ranging from 75 USD for take-home rations. This raises important questions of cost-effectiveness and sustainability, also in terms of school-level costs not normally captured in programme expenditures. Findings also suggest that school level costs are substantive, and are a considerable overhead, considering that these costs are generally borne by food-insecure communities. The thesis also highlights that scaling-up school feeding requires significant financing, on average equal to 40 percent of primary education costs. Despite these opportunity costs there is strong buy-in on school feeding from governments in sub-Saharan Africa. The implications of this thesis also suggest that the complexity of school feeding as an intervention has perhaps been underestimated by policymakers. Strengthening the evidence linking outcomes to the design of school feeding and to the quality of the service delivery, including the trade-offs between implementation modalities, remains a critical area of future research. This thesis provides both a foundation and a step towards answering these complex questions in a comparable and meaningful way
The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict in Mali
No full textStata do files and part of the analysis data used in the analysis published in the Final Report to 3ie on the project, "The impact of food assistance on food insecure populations during conflict in Mali" (project code TW 6.1039). This project was funded as part of the Humanitarian Assistance Thematic Window.
This data set includes the household survey data from the follow-up survey funded by the 3ie Humanitarian Thematic Window
Trade-offs in costs, diet quality, and regional diversity: An analysis of the nutritional value of school meals in Ghana
No full textSchool feeding and girls' enrolment: The effects of alternative implementation modalities in low-income settings in sub-Saharan Africa
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How do fruit and vegetable markets operate in rural India? A qualitative study of impact of supply and demand on nutrition security
Full text linkBackground:Diets in rural India are cereal based with low intakes of micronutrient-rich foods. The value chains for nutrition approach aims to study supply and demand of such foods. This may aid in development of interventions to improve diets and livelihoods.Objectives:(1) To identify how fruit and vegetables are accessed, (2) to describe and map the structure of value chains for exemplar foods, (3) to understand how foods are priced, and (4) to explore factors that affect decisions about which crops are grown, marketed, and sold.Methods:After stakeholder consultation, we identified 2 fruits (mango and guava) and 2 vegetables (shepu and spinach) as exemplar foods. Criteria for these exemplar foods were that they should be known to participants and there should be variability in intakes. We held 24 interviews with value chain actors including farmers, wholesalers, and vendors of the exemplar foods. Data collection was stopped when no new information emerged. We used inductive thematic coding for our analysis.Results:The value chains for each of the exemplar foods were relatively simple and involved farmers, middlemen, and vendors at either city or village level. The main themes identified as being factors considered when making decisions about which foods to grow and sell were (1) farming resources and assets, (2) quality of produce, (3) environmental conditions, (4) financial factors, (5) transport availability, and (6) consumer demand.Conclusions:There are opportunities to intervene within fruit and vegetable value chains to increase availability, affordability, and access to produce in rural India. Future research is required to determine which interventions will be feasible, effective, and acceptable to the community and other stakeholders
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