Methods, Tools and Indicators
Find a selection of the most relevant methods, tools and indicators that are useful for a food and nutrition practitioner and/or decision maker.
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Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A Guide to Measurement
01/01/2016 - FAO and FANTA have released a guide that provides potential users of the new indicator, Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women (MDD-W), with detailed information and guidance on how to apply MDD-W in [...]
Key Recommendations for Improving Nutrition through Agriculture and Food Systems
01/07/2015 - Food systems provide for all people’s nutritional needs, while at the same time contributing to economic growth. The food and agriculture sector has the primary role in feeding people well by [...]
Unravelling Commitment? An Empirical Assessment of Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Five High Burden Countries
29/06/2015 - The IDS Evidence Report 138, written by te Lintelo and Lakshman, has used secondary data to demonstrate that developing countries often have divergent strengths of commitment to hunger [...]
OWG Nutrition & Post-2015 Agenda
01/09/2014 - The Open Working Group (OWG) on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), formed as an outcome of the Rio+20 Conference, concluded its mandate in September 2014 by delivering a report containing a [...]
Actions and Accountability to Accelerate the World’s Progress on Nutrition, The Global Nutrition Report 2014
05/07/2014 - Malnutrition affects one in three people on the planet. Of these, 162 million children under the age of five are estimated to be stunted (i.e. low height for age). Two billion people are estimated to [...]
The Sphere Project - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response
01/01/2011 - The Humanitarian Charter and minimum standards reflect the determination of agencies to improve both the effectiveness of their assistance and their accountability to their stakeholders, contributing [...]
