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Global Forum on Nutrition Sensitive Social Protection Porgrams Russia

SecureNutrition and the Russian Federation are organizing a Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programs, September 10th-11th, 2015, in Moscow, Russia for...

Live webcast of the SecureNutrition Harvesting Nutrition contest

The SecureNutrition Harvesting Nutrition Contest awards on February 19, 2015 showcased three agriculture-nutrition projects that demonstrated outstanding innovation, potential...

SecureNutrition

Have you checked out the new SecureNutrition website? Apart from a complete visual overhaul, there are several useful resources available, such as a robust digital library....

Global Hunger Index 2014 news

The 2014 Global Hunger Index is now available from IFPRI and shows a steady decrease in hunger in most developing countries. However, levels of hunger are still alarmingly high...

FEX: Measuring Hunger in the Russian Federation

Summary of published paper. Between February 1992 and May 1994 CARE US responded to the health and food security crisis in the former Soviet Union by establishing a survey unit...

FEX: Launch of DfID’s new strategy paper on eliminating hunger

Summary of Publication1 The Department for International Development in the UK (DfID) recently launched a strategy paper (May 2002) 'Eliminating Hunger; Strategy for Achieving...

FEX: Global Forum on Nutrition-Sensitive Social Protection Programmes

Editorial note: As discussed in the editorial of this issue of Field Exchange, there is a lack of clarity and resulting confusion as to what actually constitutes a...

Resource: SQUEAC Overview

Measuring Coverage in Community-based Therapeutic Care Programmes through Semi-Quantitative Evaluation of Access and Coverage (SQUEAC): An Overview. A basic introduction to...

IDS 2013 Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) report

IDS has launched the 2013 Hunger and Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) report which measures political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition in 45 developing countries.

Global Hunger Index 2015

IFPRI's 2015 Global Hunger Index is focused on armed conflict and the challenge of hunger. The report shows a continued decline in the index score globally, to 21.5 this...

FEX: Measuring infants aged below 6 months: experience from the field

By Martha Mwangome and James Berkley Dr Martha Mwangome is a postdoc researcher at KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme; Centre for Geographic Medical Research Coast,...

FEX: Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI)

The Hunger And Nutrition Commitment Index (HANCI) is a project of the Institute of Development Studies' (IDS) with funding from Irish Aid, UKAid and Children's Investment Fund...

en-net: Senior Nutrition Advisor vacancy at Save the Children UK, London based

Save the Children UK is recruiting! Senior Nutrition Advisor Save the Children's Hunger Reduction Team aims to reduce malnutrition amongst children under five years of age,...

FEX: New Measuring Scoops for F75 Therapeutic Milk

To respond to frequent requests for measuring scoops for the preparation of small quantities of F-75, Nutriset with the approval of UNICEF, are including measuring scoops in...

FEX: Fighting hunger on all fronts: AAH speak out in a new publication

Action Against Hunger (AAH) discuss their experiences of humanitarian interventions aimed at eliminating or preventing hunger in the newly published report: The Geopolitics of...

FEX: Call for experiences on mothers measuring MUAC

News Are you using the mothers measuring mid upper arm circumference (MUAC) approach or do you know someone who is? If so, we want to hear from you! Action Against Hunger,...

Hidden Hunger Conference March 2015

The 2nd International Congress on Hidden Hunger will be held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 3rd to 6th March, 2015, entitled 'Hidden Hunger, Childhood Development and...

FEX: New metric on hunger and food insecurity piloted by FAO

A new, faster and more precise way of measuring hunger and food insecurity across the world is soon to be fieldtested by FAO in several pilot countries. At the moment, FAO is...

en-net: Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Nutrition Advisor

Action Against Hunger seeks a Nutrition Advisor to support the USAID?funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). The current phase of FEWS NET focuses on nutrition...

en-net: Technical Support in Food Security and Nutrition Consultancy in Irish Aid

The role of the Consultant for Food Security and Nutrition is to assist the Hunger Unit to advance the implementation of the SUN Road Map and to track the progress of the 1,000...