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Data for Food and Nutrition: What does it really cost?

Caroline Andridge, Rachel Halliday, and Natasha Ledlie (R4D)

Drastic cuts to donor aid in early 2025 are projected to have lasting consequences for nutrition in the coming decades. Governments and implementers need to do more with less. Timely and accurate food and nutrition data are needed to guide strategic choices about how...

Learnings from formative research on measuring coverage of large-scale food fortification in household surveys in Bangladesh and Ethiopia

Archis Banerjee and Samuel Scott (IFPRI)

Many governments and donors are investing in Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) as a cost-effective strategy for preventing micronutrient deficiencies. However, gaps in data on household-level coverage of LSFF are common for most foods except salt. In a previous...

Improving multi-sectoral nutrition coverage measurement: The One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Swetha Manohar and Phuong Nguyen (IFPRI)

Over the last two decades many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have developed multi-sectoral nutrition policies to address high rates of malnutrition across their populations. As of 2022, 45 out of 66 Scaling Up for Nutrition (SUN) countries have a national...

Data for Food and Nutrition: What does it really cost?

Caroline Andridge, Rachel Halliday, and Natasha Ledlie (R4D)

Drastic cuts to donor aid in early 2025 are projected to have lasting consequences for nutrition in the coming decades. Governments and implementers need to do more with less. Timely and accurate food and nutrition data are needed to guide strategic choices about how...

Learnings from formative research on measuring coverage of large-scale food fortification in household surveys in Bangladesh and Ethiopia

Archis Banerjee and Samuel Scott (IFPRI)

Many governments and donors are investing in Large-Scale Food Fortification (LSFF) as a cost-effective strategy for preventing micronutrient deficiencies. However, gaps in data on household-level coverage of LSFF are common for most foods except salt. In a previous...

Improving multi-sectoral nutrition coverage measurement: The One Nutrition Coverage Survey in Bangladesh

Swetha Manohar and Phuong Nguyen (IFPRI)

Over the last two decades many low-and-middle-income countries (LMICs) have developed multi-sectoral nutrition policies to address high rates of malnutrition across their populations. As of 2022, 45 out of 66 Scaling Up for Nutrition (SUN) countries have a national...

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