Summarizes Alive & Thrive’s experience in engaging the private sector to increase supply, demand, and use of fortified complementary foods and products.

Presents the methodology and results of using linear programming to determine whether micronutrient needs could be met using only unfortified local foods in three countries, explores options for meeting these needs that includes fortified products, and compares the costs of the various scenarios.

Complements earlier formative research through an assessment of communication channels, available resources, and training needs of health extension workers and volunteers.

Presents findings from the baseline survey conducted in Tigray and SNNP regions in 2010 as part of the impact evaluation of A&T interventions.

Household food insecurity (HFI) is a recognized underlying determinant of child undernutrition, but evidence of associations between HFI and child undernutrition is mixed.

This special supplement in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin focused on the work of Alive & Thrive in designing and implementing large-scale programs to improve infant and young child feeding (IYCF) in Asia and Africa.