The Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project is pleased to introduce a set of resources, including a Nutritional Impact Assessment Tool, to help agriculture project designers maximize nutritional benefits for women, children, and other vulnerable groups. This week, the IYCN Project will share the new resources at the International Food Policy Research Institute’s Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health Conference in New Delhi, India, where agriculture, health, and nutrition colleagues will explore how to better use investments in agriculture to achieve nutrition security and good health for the world’s poorest people.
Bringing women’s and children’s nutrition to the forefront of agriculture
The most nutritionally vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, should benefit from efforts to improve agriculture. Yet their nutritional needs often have low priority for agricultural projects focused on increasing production and incomes. By putting women’s and children’s nutrition needs at the forefront of the planning process, agriculture projects can reduce malnutrition and build healthy futures. IYCN’s new resources offer practical guidance for project designers aiming to meet this challenge.