Reducing Hunger and Undernutrition
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What are the Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-level Advocacy for Nutrition?
(IDS, 2017-01)Over the last decade, policy advocacy has made critical contributions towards the development of nutrition policies, laws and strategies in many countries with high burdens of malnutrition. Translating and safeguarding ... -
Multi-level Advocacy for Nutrition
(IDS, 2016-11)Over the past decade, nutrition has received strong global attention as a development problem. Concerted efforts by international donors, philanthropical foundations, national and international non-government organisations ... -
Mixed-Method Impact Evaluation of a Mobile Phone Application for Nutrition Monitoring in Indonesia
(IDS, 2016-07)Child malnutrition (includes both under- and overweight) remains a challenge. Routine growth monitoring is a common practice that aims to: detect children at risk of malnutrition; direct essential resources when children ... -
How Can We Use Markets to Reach the Poor With Nutritious Foods?
(IDS, 2016-05)To effectively reach poor people, nutritious food must be affordable, available in the market, safe, and must contain the nutrients which it claims to have. Ensuring that nutritious food can reach the most vulnerable cannot ... -
Assessing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’: A Process-Tracing Study of the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)
(IDS, 2016-04)In recent years, the global literature on reducing hunger and malnutrition has come to view progress as much an outcome of a political process as of (nutrition) technical interventions. Political commitment is now seen ... -
Business and its Role in Improving Nutrition: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Ghana. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2016-03)This Evidence Report presents the findings from a workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies in partnership with the Ghana School of Public Health held in Accra on 11 and 12 November. The workshop convened ... -
Business and its Role in Improving Nutrition: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions for Nigeria. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2016-02)This workshop report presents the findings from a workshop held by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) in partnership with the Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network in Abuja, Nigeria, 14 October 2015. The workshop ... -
Addressing Market Constraints to Providing Nutrient-Rich Foods: An Exploration of Market Systems Approaches
(IDS, 2016-02)This Evidence Report asks how a market systems approach could be applied to improve poor households’ access to nutrient-dense foods. By ‘market systems approach’ we mean methods that identify and address underlying ... -
Improving the Nutritional Quality of Food Markets through the Informal Sector: Lessons from Case Studies in Other Sectors
(IDS, 2016-02)Policymakers in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are seeking to work with food markets and food businesses as part of efforts to reduce undernutrition. These market-based approaches include national ... -
Markets for Nutrient-rich Foods: Policy Synthesis from Three Country Studies
(IDS, 2015-11)This Evidence Report examines the potential for and limitations of promoting business and market-based approaches to reducing undernutrition through increasing the availability and accessibility of nutrient-rich foods for ... -
The Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI 2014): Measuring the Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Developing Countries
(IDS, 2015-09)This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2014. It seeks to: 1. Rank governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition; 2. Measure what governments achieve and ... -
Working with Business Towards Systemic Change in Markets
(IDS, 2015-08)Donors, governments, civil society and companies are making significant investments in creating or supporting new business models with the aim of contributing to international development goals. Despite isolated success ... -
Food, Markets and Nutrition: Maximising the Impacts of Private Sector Engagement in Tanzania. Case Studies and Key Messages from the Workshop
(IDS, 2015-07)This report summarises the findings of a workshop for representatives of the Tanzanian government, development partners, civil society and private sector organisations, hosted by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) ... -
Unravelling Commitment? An Empirical Assessment of Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Five High Burden Countries
(IDS, 2015-06)In recent years, the global hunger and nutrition community has increasingly come to view political commitment as an essential ingredient for pushing food and nutrition security higher up public policy agendas (Foresight ... -
Promoting Biofortified Crops for Nutrition: Lessons from Orange-fleshed Sweet Potato (OFSP) in Tanzania
(IDS, 2015-04)This case study examines the outcomes of interventions in Tanzania that have promoted the production and consumption of orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) – a biofortified crop – with the objective of reducing vitamin A ... -
Better Nutrition for the Poor through Informal Markets
(IDS, 2015-02)In the fight against undernutrition, policymakers are seeking to use markets to increase access to nutrient-rich foods. Yet ensuring food reaches those most affected by undernutrition requires shaping the markets and ... -
The HANCI Donor Index 2013: Measuring Donors’ Political Commitment to Reduce Hunger and Undernutrition in Developing Countries
(IDS, 2014-11)This report presents the Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) 2013 for donor countries. The HANCI Donor Index has been created to: rank donor governments on their political commitment to tackling hunger and ... -
Business and International Development: Is Systemic Change Part of the Business Approach?
(IDS, 2014-08)Systems thinking has started to appear within the discourse around ‘business and development’, as governments, donors and NGOs are increasingly seeking to leverage private initiatives to have broad impacts on development ... -
Policy Options to Enhance Markets for Nutrient-Dense Foods in Tanzania
(IDS, 2014-08)There is an urgent need to reduce alarming rates of undernutrition in Tanzania. This report analyses options for policies and interventions to improve the functioning of markets that deliver nutrient-dense foods. Currently, ... -
Ensuring that Food Fortification will Reach the Poor in Tanzania
(IDS, 2014-08)Tanzania has introduced a mandatory food fortification programme to tackle the country’s high rates of undernutrition. Experience from other countries shows that fortification can add vital micronutrients into commonly ...
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