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Building bridges and deconstructing pathways in agriculture, nutrition and health

5th Annual Feed the Future Nutrition Innovation Lab Scientific Symposium & 2nd Annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy Week Kathmandu, 9–13 July, 2017

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This paper has been supported by UK Aid from the UK Government through the Innovative Metrics and Methods for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme, as well as the USAID-funded Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition, and their respective partner institutions. All authors declare no conflicts of interest and all authors approved the final manuscript. The authors thank Suneetha Kadiyala and Andrew Thorne-Lyman who reviewed the manuscript draft and provided critical edits. They also thank all Scientific Symposium and Learning Lab speakers, participants and note takers.

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Annex 1

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Table 2 Oral and poster presentations at the Agriculture, Nutrition, Health Scientific Symposium

Oral presentations

Presenter

Title

Affiliation

Ambikapathi, Ramya

Agriculture to Nutrition-ATONU: Market availability modifies home production diversity’s effects on dietary diversity among women in Ethiopia

Harvard University, USA

Andrews-Trevino, Johanna

Prevalence of aflatoxin exposure, and factors associated with serum aflatoxin levels, among pregnant women in Banke district of Nepal

Tufts University, USA

Awoniyi, Samuel

Food Self-Sustainability Drive and Malaria Spread in Rural Nigeria: A Need for Policy Coherence?

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Joseph Ayo Babalola University

Chandyo, Ram K.

Engagement in agriculture protects against food insecurity and adverse child nutritional outcomes in a peri-urban population in Nepal

Nepal

Chisanga, Brian

The Changing Food Expenditure Patterns and Trends in Zambia: Implications on Agricultural Policies

Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute (IAPRI)

Chisholm, Nick

Seasonal variations in household food security and dietary diversity and associations with maternal and child nutritional status in rural Ethiopia

University College Cork, Ireland

Choudhury, Samira

What Drives Diversification of National Food Supplies? A Cross-Country Analysis

University of Adelaide, Australia

Cuevas, Soledad

Improving health and sustainability outcomes in the edible oil sector in India: A qualitative policy analysis

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine/LCIRAH

Dahal, Poshan

Effect of male out-migration on household food security: Evidence from a mixed methods study in Far West Nepal

Tufts University, USA

Forsido, Sirawdink Fikreyesus

Mainstreaming participation: Maternal and Child Nutrition Stakeholders in Southwest Ethiopia

University of Kassel, Germany

Gabrysch, Sabine

Lessons from implementation and process monitoring of the Food and Agricultural Approaches to reducing Malnutrition (FAARM) trial in Bangladesh

Heidelberg University, Germany

Gauchan,Devendra

Exploring linkages of production diversity with household nutrition and management of crop biodiversity in the rural remote mountains of Nepal

Bioversity International, Nepal

Gazdar, Haris

The relationship between crop-related agricultural workload and maternal and infant nutritional status in rural Pakistan: the LANSA project.

LANSA, Pakistan

Ghosh, Upasona

Pathways of child food insecurity amidst climate change A Case Study of Indian Sundarbans

Institute of Health Management Research, Jaipur, India

Grewal, Gogi

The Contribution of AFSP Farmers Groups Toward Improved Agricultural Income and Nutrition: Midline results from the DIME Impact Evaluation of AFSP

World Bank, Nepal

Harris, Jody

Nutrition transition in Zambia: Changing food supply, prices, household consumption, and nutrition outcomes

Institute of Development Studies, UK

Harris-Fry, Helen

Food security does not lead to equity: a study on intra-household food allocation in rural Nepal.

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Headey, Derek

The relative price of healthy and unhealthy foods in 176 countries: Implications for food and nutrition policies

International Food Policy Research Insititute, Washington DC

Herforth, Anna

Indicators of Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa: Food prices that reflect nutritious food

Columbia University, USA

Islam, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful

Farm Diversification and Food and Nutrition Security in Bangladesh: Empirical Evidence from a Nationally Representative Household Panel Data

Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

Jones, Andrew D.

A methodological cluster-randomized controlled trial in Burkina Faso to assess bias in estimates of key agriculture-nutrition associations using household survey data

University of Michigan, USA

Joshi, Jayesh

Participatory Learning and Action for Nutrition Sensitive Farming System among Tribal families.

VAAGDHARA, India

Joy, Edward

Realistic and healthy dietary changes to address freshwater constraints in India: a modelling study

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Khatiwada, Purushottam P

Home Garden Approach for Enhancing Nutritional Security of Smallholder Farming Families in Nepal

Local Initiatives for Biodiversity Research and Development (LI-BIRD), Nepal

Kramer, Berber

Cooking Contests for Healthier Recipes: Impacts on Nutrition Knowledge and Behaviours in Bangladesh

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Lentz, Erin

Qualitative findings on the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index

University of Texas at Austin, USA

Manohar, Swetha

Seasonality of consumption of non-staple micronutrient-rich foods among young children in three geographically diverse Nepali communities

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Miller, Laurie C.

Greater improvements in child growth and diet quality after a holistic community development intervention than after nutrition training alone

Tufts University, USA

Mondal, Ankita

Can locally available foods fulfil the requirements of major essential nutrients of a typical household in Rohtas, Bihar? A Cost of Diet Assessment

National Institute of Nutrition, India

Mulmi, Prajula

Household food production is associated with dietary diversity for poorer households and older children: Results from a nationally- representative survey in Nepal

Independent, Nepal

Pandey, Vijaylaxmi

Responsiveness of rural households to pulse price rise: A qualitative study

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India

Pritchard, Bill

Is household production of food for own-consumption purposes a predictor of food security and dietary diversity? Household survey results from rural Myanmar

University of Sydney, Australia

Shankar, Bhavani

Food Policy and Health Outcomes: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Health-Sensitive Palm Oil Policy in Thailand

SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom

Shively, Gerald

Assessing the rainfall-agriculture and rainfall-health nutrition pathways in Uganda

Purdue University, USA

Shrestha, Akina

Health and nutritional status of schoolchildren 1 year after complementary school garden, nutrition and WASH interventions: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nepal

University of Basel, Switzerland

Shrestha, Rudra Bahadur

Efficiency of small scale vegetable farms: policy implications for rural poverty reduction and nutrition security in Nepal

Ministry of Agricultural Development, the Government of Nepal

Suwal, Rojee

Household Food Production and Maternal and Child Dietary Diversity in Nepal: Variations in association by season and agro-ecological zone

Helen Keller International, Nepal

Thorne-Lyman, Andrew L

Nutritional resilience following the 2015 earthquake in Nepal

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Wambugu, Stella

Farmers’ health and agriculture in low income economies: investigating farm households and wider health interactions in rural Malawi

SOAS, Kenya

Wong, Johanna T

Factors influencing consumption of animal-source foods in Timor-Leste

School of Veterinary Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, NSW, 2050 Australia

Zanello, Giacomo

Piloting the use of accelerometry devices to capture energy expenditure in agricultural and rural livelihoods: Protocols and findings from Ghana and India

University of Reading, UK

Poster presentations

Presenter

Title

Affiliation

Aakesson, Ashley

Using household-level perceptions of their local food environment to inform nutrition-sensitive agriculture program design in Odisha, India

SPRING (Strengthening Partnerships, Results, and Innovations in Nutrition Globally) Project/The Manoff Group, USA

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui

Agricultural Trade Policy and Undernutrition Disparities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Harvard University, USA; Regional Institute for Population Studies, Ghana

Ahmed, Faria

Enhancing practice of good nutrition behavior through value chain based agricultural intervention; a myth or reality?

Care International, Bangladesh

Alders, Robyn

Exploring infant and young child feeding practices and the consumption of poultry products in rural Tanzanian villages: A mixed methods approach.

University of Sydney

Andrews Trevino, Johanna Y

Examining the Relationships Among Maternal Exposure to Aflatoxins, Birth Outcomes and Stunting in Nepalese Infants: Protocol for the AflaCohort Birth Cohort Study

Tufts University, USA

David, Darlena

What effect did Kerala’s (India) horticultural programme have on access and availability of fruits and vegetables?

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, India/ US

DJ, Nithya

Seasonal variation in energy Intake from different foods in two different agro climatic locations in rural India

Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Dominguez-Salas, Paula

Can food scares shift health and nutrition outcomes in low and middle income countries (LMICs)

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Gaihre, Santosh

Multisector Intervention to Improve Food Security, Nutrition, Household Environment and Health in Nepal: Stakeholder Perspectives

Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Ghosh, Shibani

Ugandan women with higher dietary diversity scores are more likely to belong to higher than lower BMI quantiles: Findings from rural north and south west Uganda

Tufts University, USA

Grace, Delia

Food Safety Metrics relevant to Low and Middle Income Countries

International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

Gurung, Sabi

Anemia in women of reproductive age, household food insecurity, food consumption and household food production practices in southwestern Bangladesh

Tufts University

Harding, Kassandra

Factors associated with child wasting in South Asia: An in-depth analysis of household survey data in six countries

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

Herrington, Caitlin

Biofortification: The Evidence

Harvest Plus

Htet, Min Kyaw

Food security, dietary diversity, home gardens and agricultural factors are associated with child stunting: results from surveys in three rural sites across Myanmar

Independent Researcher, Myanmar

Islam, Monirul (on behalf of Riffat Ara)

Improving Maternal Diet Diversity: Leading Towards Improving Maternal Nutrition in Bangladesh

Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council

Jones, Andrew D.

Livestock ownership is associated with increased odds of anemia among preschool-aged children, but not women of reproductive age in Ghana

University of Michigan

Kalouni, Shashank Shaker

Clinical Nutrition care in HIV infection; an integral in ensuring better health of HIV infected people

Nava Kiran Plus, Dhangadhi, Nepal

Kebede, Mebit

Assessment of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Competency of Mid-Level Agriculture Graduating Students in Ethiopia

Jhpiego, Ethiopia

Kramer, Berber

Liquid Milk: Cash Constraints and Day-to-Day Intertemporal Choice in Financial Diaries

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Lamanna, Christine

Monitoring women and children’s nutrition via mobile phone surveys: findings from a large scale mode experiment in rural Kenya

World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kenya

Lamicchane, Ashish

Reported food restrictions in pregnancy and lactation are associated with ethnicity, education and wealth among pregnant women in Banke district

Helen Keller International and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition-Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Ludwig, Till

How economic preferences form food and nutrition security

Center for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany

Madjdian, Donya

Ten2Twenty: Nutritional, social and economic pathways of optimizing adolescent nutrition for better health in low and middle income countries: a systematic literature review

Sociology of Consumption and Households, Wageningen University and Research, the Netherlands

Madzivhandila, Tshilidzi

Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU): Guidelines and steps on selecting agricultural development projects and nutrition-sensitive interventions.

Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN); South Africa

Madzorera, Isabel

Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU): Women’s empowerment is associated with dietary diversity in Ethiopia

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Magar, Sudip Ale

Pesticide exposure during pregnancy and the pregnancy outcome in Chitwan district of Nepal

Nepal

Miller, Laurie C.

A livestock-based community development intervention contributes to more equitable intra-household allocation of foods for children in rural Nepal

Department of Pediatrics and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy (FSNSP), Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

Mohammed, Husein

Adaptation of mental development tool to access child development after a nutrition intervention in rural Ghana

School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition, McGill University, Canada

Mulmi, Prajula

Climatic conditions and child height: Sex-specific vulnerability and the protective effects of sanitation and food markets in Nepal

Independent, Nepal

Neupane, Sumanta

Agricultural food production and selling and the associated household factors in Nepal: Findings from a national survey

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Nordhagen, Stella

If we train them, they will garden?: Factors associated with intervention component uptake in a nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention

Helen Keller International (HKI), Senegal

O’Hara, Corey M.

Assessing the value of eating patterns as markers of diet quality in a resource-constrained setting

Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, United States

O’Hearn, Meghan

Upscaling Participatory Action and Videos for Agriculture (UPAVAN): Development of a participatory, video-based nutrition-sensitive agriculture intervention to improve maternal and child nutrition

Digital Green, India

Parasar, Rohit

Can Business Led Pro-Nutritional Value Chains Enhance Nutrients Intake?

Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Parasar, Rohit

Child Underweight, Land Productivity and Public Services: A District-level Analysis for India

Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Patel, Miti

A qualitative assessment of income generation activities among beneficiaries of a homestead food production program in the Far-Western region of Nepal.

Helen Keller International, USA

Rampal, Priya

Situational analysis of pulse production and consumption in India

M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, India

Rehman, Hafeez ur

Deciphering indicators of grain biofortification in rice systems; implications and choice for upscaling

Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad-Pakistan

S, Raju

Consumption patterns of millets compared to rice and wheat in Karnataka state, India

Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA), M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sarangi, Biraj Laxmi

Improving maternal and child dietary diversity in Bihar, India: changing household practices using Self-help group platform

Project Concern International, India

Scott, Samuel P.

Effects of iron-biofortified crops on cognitive function: findings from randomized controlled efficacy trials involving pearl millet in Indian adolescents and beans in Rwandan university students

Poverty Health and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, USA/India

Sharma, Nisha

Low Prevalence of Breastfeeding Counselling during ANC Visits in the Hospitals of Kathmandu Valley

Helen Keller International, Nepal

Shrestha, Robin

Measuring nutrition governance in Nepal: A multiyear assessment of institutional and individual collaboration, capability and commitment at sub-national levels in Nepal

Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Sparling, Thalia

Food access and dietary indicators related to depression in women of reproductive age in Sylhet, Bangladesh

Institute of Public Health, Heidelberg University

Thorne-Lyman, Andrew

Animal source food consumption during early childhood is associated with reduced risk of poorer child development outcomes in rural Nepal

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Upadhyaya, Dipak Prasad

Is Dietary Diversity Associated with Anemia during Pregnancy in Nepal?

Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu

Whitney, Cory

Agricultural development interventions on household nutrition in Kenya and Uganda

Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

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Yates, J., Manohar, S., Bhandari, S. et al. Building bridges and deconstructing pathways in agriculture, nutrition and health. Food Sec. 10, 689–700 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0793-4

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