Journal article
Feb 25 2020
Nutrition intervention using behavioral change communication without additional material inputs increased expenditures on key food groups in Bangladesh (Warren AM., 2020. Journal of Nutrition)
This article demonstrated that recipients in the Phase I intensive intervention, which provided interpersonal counseling, community mobilization, and mass media campaigns, mobilized additional resources to improve diets.
Journal article
Nov 15 2019
A Double Edged Sword? Improvements in Economic Conditions over a Decade in India Led to Declines in Undernutrition as Well as Increases in Overweight among Adolescents and Women (Young M., 2019. Journal of Nutrition)
This study examined the national and state trends for BMI in women and identified determinants for the dual burden of undernutrition and overweight/obesity among adolescent girl and women.
Journal article
May 01 2018
Dietary diversity predicts the adequacy of micronutrient intake in pregnant adolescent girls and women in Bangladesh, but use of the 5-group cutoff poorly identifies individuals with inadequate intake (Nguyen PH., 2018. Journal of Nutrition)
The Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W) indicator based on a 10-food group women dietary diversity score (WDDS-10) has been validated to assess dietary quality in nonpregnant women.
Report
Sep 30 2017
Landscape Analysis of Adolescent Health and Nutrition in Ethiopia
This landscape analysis was commissioned by Alive & Thrive (A&T), an initiative managed by FHI 360, to better understand the current state of evidence around adolescent health and nutrition in Ethiopia.
Journal article
Jan 11 2016
Small grants program: Increasing protein and micronutrient content of complementary foods through a caterpillar cereal in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Locally available and sustainable food interventions are needed to combat the problem of malnutrition in infants and young children in low-income countries.
Report
Oct 28 2014
Adding Micronutrient Powders to an Integrated Food Security and Nutrition Project to Further Reduce Malnutrition in Nepal
The goal of this project is to examine the impact on anemia prevalence among young children of providing an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program with or without micronutrient powders (MNP).