Thirty-three presentations

Chair: Amos Laar, African Nutrition Society

Speakers and presentations

Recording for poster presentations

Christopher Conz, Tufts University
(Un)Cultivating the Disease of Maize: policy lessons from an environmental history of pellagra in Lesotho, Southern Africa

Wema Adere, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Understanding dietary diversity of children in Kenya: A doer/non-doer approach

Mia Blakstad, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Measuring the Spread of a Homestead Agriculture and Nutrition Intervention in Rufiji, Tanzania

Solveig Cunningham, Emory University
Pocket money spending patterns of adolescents in South India

Mousumi Das, Institute for Financial Management & Research & World Bank
Multidimensional Food Security Index: Evidence from Bangladesh using recent data

Nithya DJ, MS Swaminathan Reasearch Foundation
Impact of Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions on Household Dietary Diversity

Modoukpè Djibril Moussa, Université d’Abomey-Calavi, République du Benin
Effect of fertilizer micro-dosing and harvesting time on antioxidant activity of polyphenol extracts from traditional leafy vegetables

Lidan Du, Helen Keller International & The SPRING Project
The Effect of Farmer Nutrition Schools on Household Food Production and Women’s Dietary Diversity in Bangladesh

Dawd Gashu, Addis Ababa University
Spatial selenium variation in soils, crops and humans in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Jody Harris, IDS
Balancing power: Advocacy coalitions and community voice in Zambia’s nutrition policy process

Ishaq Ibrahim, Department of Agricultural Economics, Federal University Dutsinma Katsina State
Post-Harvest Loss in Food Crops: Evidence from Rice production in Rural communities of Northern Nigeria

Deborah Johnston, SOAS University of London
Responses to the 2010 food price spike in an agricultural subsector

Hyun Ju Lee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Impact of seasonal difference on dietary intake, morbidity and nutrition status among children 6-23 months in Burkina Faso: a secondary data analysis

Silvia Alonso, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
Effect of milk price on dairy consumption in low-income households in Nairobi

Mercy Lungaho, CIAT
Predicting Consumption Intention of Iron Biofortified Beans among Consumers in Urban and Rural Tanzania: Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior & Health Belief Model

Hazel Malapit, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Participation in Agricultural Cropping and Nutritional Status in Tanzania

Ephraim Chirwa, University of Malawi
Does Household Participation in Food Markets Increase Dietary Diversity? Evidence from Rural Malawi

Mduduzi Mbuya, Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
Supporting small and medium enterprises to procure and produce nutritious foods: programmatic and methodological learnings from the Marketplace for Nutritious Food program

Masresha Tessema Anegago, Wageningen University & Ethiopian Public Health Institute
Effect of Quality Protein Maize on protein status and linear growth of Ethiopian Children:  A randomized controlled trial

Sarah McClung, JSI R&T & The SPRING Project
What have we learnt in terms of designing, implementing and evaluating “nutrition-sensitive” agriculture-food systems in Zambia?

Ayesha Mysorewala, Collective for Social Science Research
Nutrition Improvement Through the Transfer of Agricultural Assets: The Case of Livestock Transfer Interventions in Pakistan

Adeyinka Onabolu, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Abuja, Nigeria
Extensive Capacity Development Needs are a Limiting Factor for Implementing Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture in Nigeria

Aissatou Ouedraogo, Tufts University
Social networks, production of micronutrient-rich foods, and child health outcomes in Burkina Faso

Ibukun Owoputi, Cornell University
Farm production diversity improves children's intake of vitamin A-rich foods and household food security in Malawi 

Simone Passarelli, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Chicken management practices and exposure to contamination in Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Approach

Ireen Raaijmakers, Wageningen University
Drivers of food choices: a first step in the development of a food choice questionnaire for urban Nigeria

Andrea L. Spray, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
The feasibility and acceptability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for collection of dietary intake and time use data

Akwasi Tagoe, Newcastle University
Assessing the effect of crop management (conventional and organic systems) on soil biological quality

Mehroosh Tak, Oxford Policy Management
Tracking Government Expenditure on Nutrition in Bangladesh

Christopher Turner, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Food Environment Research in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review of Methods and Metrics

Giacomo Zanello, University of Reading
Energy expenditure, time use, and food intakes in agricultural and rural livelihoods: Findings from northern Ghana

Taddese Zerfu, African Population and Health Research Center, Inc.
Consumption of dairy, fruits and dark green leafy vegetables is associated with lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes in a prospective cohort study in rural Ethiopia

Matty Demont, International Rice Research Institute
Understanding systemic drivers of food choice to identify entry points for nutrition-sensitive interventions in eastern India