The Program in International Nutrition at Cornell University - Issue #19
Dear all,
We hope you are well. Please find below this week’s updates in and around the Program in International Nutrition. Thank you.
Best wishes,
Nidhi and Saurabh
PIN Podcasts
PIN Podcast | PIN 19 | María Nieves Garcia-Casal — share.transistor.fm
La Dra. María Nieves García-Casal nos cuenta de su trayectoría profesional y su trabajo actual en la OMS
Listen to our previous episodes here
PIN Seminars
This week:
"Nutrition, Agriculture, Health, Food Systems: Evidence and approaches in addressing maternal and infant nutrition"
Shibani Ghosh, PhD
Research Associate Professor,
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University and
Associate Director,
USAID Feed the Future Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab
April 14, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Save the dates for upcoming Spring 2022 PIN Seminars:
Jennifer Friedman, MD, PhD,
Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and
Director, Lifespan Center for International Health Research (CIHR)
April 21, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
Co-sponsored by Maternal and Child Nutrition Training Grant (MCNTG) and Program in International Nutrition (PIN)
Reina Engle-Stone, PhD,
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
May 5, 2022, 11:30 AM EST
PIN #DYK
Other Seminars and Events of Interest
Improving Feeding of Young Children During and After Illness: A Behavioral Design Approach | USAID Advancing Nutrition — www.advancingnutrition.org
During this webinar, speakers from both Breakthrough ACTION and USAID Advancing Nutrition will share insights from a behavioral design process for improving the feeding of young children during and after an illness, completed in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
April 13, 2022, 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM EST | Register here
Food for all: International organizations and the transformation of agriculture | CALS — cals.cornell.edu
The Sustainable Development Goals are off track. The prospects of the SDGs being realized by 2030 are bleak. The rapid pace of consistent decline in poverty and hunger until 2015 had slowed even before COVID-19. Often overlooked is the fact that much of that reduction in poverty and hunger occurred in China and Southeast Asia.
April 13, 2022, 12:25 PM - 1:15 PM EST
High-level virtual event “Scaling up Agroecology Initiative’’ | FAO — www.fao.org
The Scaling up Agroecology Initiative seeks to mobilize dialogue, cooperation and investment within and beyond the United Nations (UN) system, to bring agroecology to scale and achieve multiple sustainable development goals through sustainable agriculture and food systems.
April 19, 2022, 6:30 AM - 8:00 AM EST | Register here
Promoting Nutrition-Sensitive Innovation Across the Food System: Introduction to the Work of the New Food Systems for Nutrition Innovation Lab. — tufts.zoom.us
In this webinar, we will introduce the objectives of FSNIL in the context of global food system priorities. We will discuss FSN-IL’s research and capacity building activities in the newly identified focus countries of Nepal, Bangladesh, Malawi, and Mozambique and highlight how FSN-IL plans to support the broader objectives of USAID and Feed the Future.
Apr 21, 2022, 08:30 AM EST | Register here
2022 SPIA Webinar Series: Supporting the Design of Rigorous Impact Evaluations of CGIAR Innovations | CAS | CGIAR Advisory Services — cas.cgiar.org
The SPIA Webinar Series launched in 2021 provides an opportunity for the impact assessment community of practice to jointly reflect on methods and approaches to impact assessment. Webinars will not only focus on completed work, but many of them will be presentations of work in progress. The webinars take place on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, usually around 2 pm CET.
News and Updates
Calling all students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators passionate about food safety and/or nutrition to help make food safer in Ethiopia and in Nigeria! — www.gainhealth.org
EatSafe is calling all students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and innovators, passionate about food safety and/or nutrition, to share their ideas on how existing food safety innovations can be adapted and applied in traditional food markets and along value chains to resolve upstream food safety issues, which increase the amount of safer food reaching local, traditional markets.
Find out more (and apply) here: bit.ly/eatsafechallenge
USAID Advancing Nutrition Launches Nigeria Project to Support Nutrition Interventions and Programming | USAID Advancing Nutrition — www.advancingnutrition.org On March 29, 2022, USAID launched the USAID Advancing Nutrition project in Nigeria, which will focus on Kebbi, Sokoto, and Bauchi states. The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning Honorable Clem Agba chaired the event and was represented by Dr. Faniran Sanjo.
Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W): A Guide to Measurement | CGIAR Gender Platform — gender.cgiar.org This guide provides information and directions on how to use the Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women tool.
A twenty-year journey: The road to mandatory food fortification legislation in Pakistan | Nutrition International — www.nutritionintl.org Two decades of advocacy and strategic partnerships have culminated in the flagship passing of mandatory food fortification laws in Pakistan.
World Food Forum: World Food Forum Announces 2022 Theme: Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet. — www.world-food-forum.org
Today the World Food Forum (WFF) - powered by Global Youth, announced its 2022 theme, Healthy Diets. Healthy Planet., to draw attention to, and spark action around, the interrelation between climate change and stable access to adequate, safe, sufficient and nutritious food, as well as healthy diets for all.
Recent Publications from the PIN Community
Associations between mobility, food insecurity and transactional sex among women in cohabitating partnerships: an analysis from six African countries 2016-2017 - PubMed Food insecurity and women's mobility each increased the odds of transactional sex. Since transactional sex is associated with HIV risk, prevention programs can address the needs of mobile and food-insecure women, including those in cohabitating relationships.
Reducing childhood stunting in India: Insights from four subnational success cases - PubMed
Global success case analyses have identified factors supporting reductions in stunting across countries; less is known about successes at the subnational levels. We studied four states in India, assessing contributors to reductions in stunting between 2006 and 2016.
This is a three-arm cluster-randomized controlled superiority trial (cRCT). The study arms include the following: group 1: NIPP; group 2: NIPP+, and group 3: control. Groups 1 and 2 will receive a 12-week intervention (NIPP or NIPP+) with active monitoring and longitudinal follow-up at 2, 6, and 12 months post-intervention.