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News
September 13, 2017
Boosting Nutrition and Women’s Empowerment Through Home Gardening
Malnutrition is the number one risk factor in the global burden of disease, and affects one in three people worldwide.
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Flagships
August 30, 2017
Inspiring Local Communities to Enhance Their Diets
Nutrition Specialist Molly Ahern talks about the methodologies used to learn about local diets in northern Malawi and northern Zambia and help
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News
May 18, 2017
Managing Partners Key to A4NH Phase II Strategy
As the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) enters its second phase, a group of seven
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Publications
March 6, 2017
New scientific guidelines to assess biodiverse foods in dietary surveys
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with one of A4NH's Managing Partners, Bioversity International, jointly
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A4NH Homepage Feature
February 19, 2016
Healthy diets year round – a case study captured on film in Zambia
*Cross-posted with permission from the Bioversity International website. A 3-year research-for-development initiative in the Barotse floodplain, Zambia, supported by the CGIAR
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Biofortification
October 15, 2015
Dietary diversity and biofortification – Closer than you think
Some 2 billion people suffer from hidden hunger caused by infections and diets lacking in essential micronutrients such as vitamin
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Events
October 1, 2015
Agricultural biodiversity showcased at Expo Milano 2015
*This blogpost was originally developed by Andrea Testa and adapted by Erica Roggio and Samantha Collins of Bioversity International. An
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Flagships
September 29, 2015
Stimulating demand for nutritious diverse foods
In the Barotse floodplain of Zambia, families must migrate each year to farm at higher land as they escape the
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Flagships
July 27, 2015
Improving nutrition in Kenya through farm and landscape modelling
Mary Adoyo* is a Kenyan smallholder farmer in the Masana sub-location of Vihiga county in Western Kenya. She manages the
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