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April 10, 2020

A4NH Researchers Address COVID-19

A series of blogs from experts in nutrition, health, food systems, development, and more on global, regional, and national impacts of the coronavirus.

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June 23, 2020

CGIAR Announces New COVID-19 Hub for Research

Hub provides a coordinated research response to the global pandemic, harnessing knowledge across CGIAR research themes for emergency response, recovery, and resilience.

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May 21, 2020

A4NH Releases 2019 Annual Report

New report highlights 2019 program accomplishments and research milestones.

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Blog
July 9, 2020
One Month Later: New Survey Suggests Continued Rising Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 Restrictions Continue
Follow-up survey results suggest food security situation has not yet deteriorated, but savings used as primary coping device could run out in the near future.
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Blog
July 7, 2020
Contribution of Forests, Trees and Agroforestry to Sustainable Food Security and Nutrition in a Time of Crisis
As COVID-19 highlights the need for more sustainable and resilient food systems, researchers share what role forests, trees and agroforestry can play.
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June 23, 2020
New Study: Indian Diets Fall Short of EAT-Lancet Reference Diet Recommendations for Human Nutrition and Environmental Health
The findings broadly apply across all states and income levels, underlining the challenges many Indians face in obtaining healthy diets.
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June 23, 2020
CGIAR Announces New COVID-19 Hub to Support Global Scientific Response
As the UN warns of an impending global food emergency, researchers in health, nutrition and agriculture unite to support response, recovery and resilience.
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June 25, 2020
New Brief Details Drivers of Stunting Reduction in Vietnam
This Stories of Change in Nutrition study aims to understand the history, contemporary treatment, and future of nutrition in Vietnam.
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Blog
June 16, 2020
Investing in the Data Value Chain for Nutrition in West Africa: A Call to Action
More than 90 people from key national and regional institutions across West Africa gathered to take stock of the nutrition data value chain in the region.
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Blog
June 17, 2020
Improving India’s Public Distribution System: What Can We Learn from COVID-19?
India's Public Distribution System (PDS) has been the anchor of its food security safety net programs for decades.
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Blog
June 5, 2020
Integrating Nutrition with Physical Activity Promotion: Exploring New ‘Double Duty’ Options
With growing evidence linking obesity and COVID-related deaths, associations between access to healthy diets, physical activity and mental health are more important than ever.
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Blog
June 5, 2020
COVID-19 Offers Opportunity for India’s Food Systems to Deliver on Food Safety and Health
India can reap significant public health and economic benefits from a sustained effort to combat the problem of unsafe food.
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Blog
June 1, 2020
A Food Environment Typology for Global Application
Typology includes wild and cultivated, and formal and informal built food environments, to better reflect the diverse food environments in communities around the world.
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Blog
May 21, 2020
Survey Suggests Rising Risk of Food and Nutrition Insecurity in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as COVID-19 Restrictions Continue
How have households been impacted by the pandemic, and what are the implications for food security and diet diversity?
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Blog
May 20, 2020
COVID-19 and Global Trade Implications for Food Systems and Healthy Diets
The authors consider rippling impacts of COVID-19 on trade as food system actors experience loss of income and supply chains close or are seriously disrupted.
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Food Safety
May 4, 2020
Aflatoxin Biocontrol Product Lowers Maize, Groundnut Contamination in Senegal
Results from study show Aflasafe to be highly efficient at reducing aflatoxin contamination in key crops.
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Blog
April 27, 2020
Trade: Good or Bad for the Sustainability of Our Food System?
New paper explores food system dynamics by considering system drivers and sustainability factors.
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Blog
April 23, 2020
Exploring the Relationship Between Obesity and COVID-19
With growing interest in the relationship between obesity and COVID-19, the authors explore possible links between the two.
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Blog
April 20, 2020
Reshaping Food Systems After COVID-19
Food systems are undergoing transformations all over the world. How will COVID-19 shape those transformations, and what steps can countries take to ensure people have access to healthy, sustainable diets?
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Blog
April 14, 2020
Viewing Food System Transformation Through the Country Lens is Key to Inclusion, Better Nutrition
Countries face different opportunities and trade-offs for inclusion at various stages of system transformation. To be effective, approaches to ensure healthy diets must also be country-specific.
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April 14, 2020
COVID-19, Food and Nutrition in West Africa: Potential Impacts and Resources
Findings from an early April rapid survey of partners conducted by Transform Nutrition West Africa on national responses to COVID-19, potential impacts on food and nutrition security.
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Flagships
April 8, 2020
Food Environment Workshop Addresses Less-Understood Aspect of Food Systems
A4NH-led workshop explored the food environment, or where the consumer meets the food to be consumed - an important element in the food system framework.
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Blog
April 6, 2020
Ask the Researchers: Urban-Rural Linkages for Nutrition and Territorial Approaches for Sustainable Development
Authors of new UNSCN discussion paper share their thoughts on rural-urban linkages and implicaitons for nutrition in low- and middle-income countries
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Blog
April 7, 2020
How India’s Food-Based Safety Net is Responding to the COVID-19 Lockdown
In the midst of the largest lockdown in history, marshalling an array of social safety net programs to buttress food security among the poor.
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March 5, 2020
Coronavirus Threat Looms Large for Low-Income Cities
In this blog, which first appeared on IIED.org, the authors discuss how weak infrastructure would leave urban settlements in low-income countries highly vulnerable, should the rapid spread of COVID-19 continue.
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October 17, 2019
Video: Understanding Food Systems for Healthier Diets
This animated video from A4NH explains food systems, their complex, rapid transformations, and challenges low- and middle-income countries face in making them healthy and sustainable.
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WHAT WE DO

With an innovative perspective that focuses on consumption and demand, the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) seeks to realized the enormous potential of agricultural development to make significant contributions to improving the nutrition and health of people worldwide.
As CGIAR’s only research program on nutrition and health, A4NH focuses on the system-level outcome of improving food and nutrition security for health. The program is led by the International Food Policy Research Institute and managed by a group of four other CGIAR Research Centers and two academic institutions.

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RESEARCH AREAS

A4NH works across five flagship research programs, addressing some of the most challenging nutrition and health concerns we face today.
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Food Systems for Healthier Diets
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Biofortification
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Food Safety
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Supporting Policies, Programs, and Enabling Action through Research
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Improving Human Health
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Gender, Equity, and Empowerment

WHERE WE WORK

A4NH research concentrates on five focus countries, with work extending to more than two dozen others. Our research informs policymakers and stakeholders in these countries and provides lessons adaptable to other places and contexts.

Bangladesh | Ethiopia | India | Vietnam | Nigeria | Global

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