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Programme ANH2023

The 8th annual Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy Week took place from 19 to 30 June 2023, online and in Lilongwe, Malawi. The programme featured online Learning Labs followed by a full hybrid conference in Lilongwe. We invited the global community of researchers and research users to participate in this event. Speakers and participants had the choice of joining in a number of ways.

The format was as follows:

  • 19 - 21 June 2023: Learning Labs (online only)
  • 26 June 2023: Learning Labs (In-person only in Lilongwe)
  • 27 - 30 June 2023: Research Conference (in-person in Lilongwe and online)

Use the filters to browse the full ANH2023 interactive programme.

Day

Theme

Event types

Session types

Learning Lab: SCANR: Resources and guidance for analysis of secondary data in agriculture, food systems, nutrition, and health

Event 19 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Nutrition
SCAN Resources and

Learning Lab: The Food Systems Dashboard: New Tools for Decision Making

Event 19 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Nutrition
Food systems dashboard

Learning Lab: Where are caregivers’ needs in the agriculture to nutrition pathway? Measuring the resources they need to provide optimal care and feeding

Event 19 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Nutrition
Where are caregivers

Learning Lab: Cash programming to prevent acute malnutrition in emergencies: evidence and emerging practices to support optimal design

Event 19 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Nutrition
Cash programming to prevent acute

Learning Lab: Using Food Prices for Nutrition

Event 20 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Other
Using Food Prices

Learning Lab: Innovative Methods & Metrics for Climate Change and ANH – How can we overcome the data deficit?

Event 20 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Food Systems, Geography, Planetary Health
Innovative Methods

Learning Lab: Demystifying Social and Behavior Change: The Key to Improving the Quality of SBC Programming through Evaluations

Event 20 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
Demystifying Social and Behavior Change

Learning lab: Introduction to the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index for Market Inclusion (pro-WEAI+MI)

Event 20 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Gender and Equity, Nutrition
Introduction to the project-level

Learning Lab: Weighing up the evidence: comparing and converging indicators of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

Event 21 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Food Safety, Nutrition, Public Health
Weighing up the

Learning Lab: Collecting and Analyzing Dietary Data Using a 5-minute Survey Module (DQQ) Adapted for >100 Countries

Event 21 June 2023, 14:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition, Public Health
Collecting and Analyzing

Learning lab: Writing for a research audience: tips for greater success

Event 21 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Communications and management, Other
Writing for a research

Learning lab: DNDC Modeling: Effects of Climate Smart Agriculture Interventions on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Event 21 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Environment, Planetary Health
DNDC Modeling Effects of Climate Smart

Welcome to the Learning Labs

Event 26 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Welcome to the Learning

Plenary learning lab: Political economy of agri-nutrition

Event 26 June 2023, 09:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition
Political economy of

Learning Lab: Reducing food loss and waste in nutrient-dense value chains (in-person)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Planetary Health
Reducing food loss and waste in

Learning Lab: The "Cheat Sheet" for Tracking Consumer Behaviors in Nutrition and Agriculture (in-person)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Nutrition
The Cheat Sheet for Tracking Consumer

Learning Lab: Introduction, guidance and application of a common approach to measure the costs and benefits for an agriculture, nutrition and health program, project, or intervention (in-person)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Economics, Nutrition, Public Health
Introduction, guidance and application

Learning lab: Food environment methods, tools, and metrics to support healthy diets in low- and middle-income countries (in-person only)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Communications and management, Food Environments, Public Health
Food environment methods, tools,

Learning Lab: Strengthening causal inference from randomized controlled trials of complex interventions (in-person)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Strengthening causal

Learning Lab: Metrics for school-aged child growth and development + Perils and pitfalls of anthropometry (in-person only)

Event 26 June 2023, 10:45 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Other
Metrics for school

Learning Lab: Using the new women's empowerment metric for water, sanitation, and hygiene (WE WASH)

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Food Safety, Gender and Equity
Using the new

Learning Lab: Exploring micronutrient deficiencies using the open-access, web-based Micronutrient Action Policy Support (MAPS) Tool

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health
Exploring micronutrient

Learning Lab: ICTs for assessing women's time use, dietary and hand washing practices

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Safety, Gender and Equity, Nutrition
ICTs for assessing

Learning Lab: Agri-food: a diet modelling software to identify trade-offs and support multi-stakeholder decision-making on how to strengthen local food systems to improve nutrition

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Environment, Food Environments, Gender and Equity, Nutrition
Agri-food

Learning Lab: Calculating the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet in Malawi

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Nutrition
Calculating the Cost

Learning Lab: The Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS) - Measuring nutrient inadequacy and risk for NCDs with a single metric

Event 26 June 2023, 15:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
The Global Diet

Side event: New resources for nutrition analysis using Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey data (Hybrid, in-person and online)

Event 26 June 2023, 17:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences
New resources for nutrition

Side event: Multi-Sectoral Approaches Towards Food Systems Strengthening (Online)

Event 26 June 2023, 17:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Public Health, Other
Multi-Sectoral

Side event: IPC Open Discussion

Event 26 June 2023, 17:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Public Health
Side Event IPC Open Discussion

Side event: A beginner’s guide to developing an Evidence and Gap Map

Event 26 June 2023, 17:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Social Sciences
Side event: A beginner's guide

Social Event: Onsite Cocktails

Event 26 June 2023, 18:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Onsite Cocktails

Welcome to the ANH2023 Research Conference

Event 27 June 2023, 09:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition, Public Health
Welcome to the AH2023

Keynote speech: Kumi Naidoo

Event 27 June 2023, 09:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Social Sciences, Other
Kumi Naidoo

ANH2023 Malawi opening session

Event 27 June 2023, 10:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition, Public Health
Malawi opening

Mini poster presentations & poster viewing

Event 27 June 2023, 11:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health
ANH2023 Poster 27 June

Parallel thematic session A: Food system governance and political economy

Event 27 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Social Sciences
Parallel thematic session A

Parallel thematic session B: Food system programmes: Impacts, processes and economics

Event 27 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Food Systems, Public Health
Parallel thematic session B Food system programmes Impacts, processes and economics A

Plenary: Intersecting inequities in agriculture, nutrition and health

Event 27 June 2023, 15:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Social Sciences
Intersecting inequities in

Side event: ANH Academy Food Environment Working Group Consultation: Revisiting the ANH-FEWG Food Environment Framework

Event 27 June 2023, 17:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Environments, Nutrition, Public Health
Environment Working Group

Side events:Interdisciplinary teaching and learning for multisectoral action on malnutrition

Event 27 June 2023, 17:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Communications and management, Food Environments, Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Geography, Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences, Other
ANH Academy

Side event: Unpacking the determinants of anemia and adjusting for inflammation (Online)

Event 27 June 2023, 17:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences
Unpacking the

Side event: Responsive evidence synthesis for agriculture, nutrition, and health policy decisions

Event 27 June 2023, 17:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition, Public Health
Responsive evidence

Social Event: OffSite Cocktails (Woodlands)

Event 27 June 2023, 18:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
OffSite Cocktails Woodlands

Side event: Joining the dots towards action on healthy, sustainable and equitable food systems

Event 28 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Communications and management, Environment, Food Environments, Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Nutrition, Planetary Health, Public Health, Social Sciences
Joining the dots between

Side event: INDDEX24 Dietary Assessment Platform: Technology to Improve the Collection and Use of Quantitative Dietary Data

Event 28 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
INDDEX24 Dietary Assessment

Fireside chats

Event 28 June 2023, 10:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Communications and management, Economics, Other
Fireside chat CGIAR (5)

Mini poster presentations & Poster viewing

Event 28 June 2023, 11:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health
Poster ANH2023 Day2

Parallel thematic session C: Nutrition in crises and protracted humanitarian contexts

Event 28 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
Parallel thematic session C

Parallel thematic session D: Food system programmes: Impacts, processes and economics

Event 28 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Food Systems, Public Health
Parallel thematic session D

Plenary: Agroecology, nutrition and planetary health: Benefits, challenges; opportunities, constraints

Event 28 June 2023, 15:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Environment, Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Nutrition, Planetary Health, Other
Agroecology nutrition and planetary

Side event: Improving fruit and vegetable intake through bundled food system interventions in urban Vietnam and Nigeria

Event 28 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences
Improving fruit and vegetable

Side event: Child malnutrition & Adult NCD: Generating Evidence on mechanistic links to inform future policy/practice (IN-PERSON ONLY)

Event 28 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
CHANGE project

Side event: Nova-UPF Screener: A new tool to monitor and benchmark population diet quality

Event 28 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Environments, Nutrition, Public Health
Nova-UPF Screener

Side event: Exploring the Potential Benefits of Repurposing Subsidies and Other Forms of Public Support to Agriculture in Africa

Event 28 June 2023, 17:15 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Economics, Nutrition, Planetary Health
Side Event

Film screening (in-person): The Ants and the Grasshopper

Event 28 June 2023, 18:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Film screening The Ants & the Grasshopper

Social Online Hang out

Event 28 June 2023, 18:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Social Online Hang

Side event: The Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)-Meal and Menu Metrics: Introducing an Innovative Approach to Measuring Meal and Menu Quality

Event 29 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
The Global Diet Quality Score

Side event: The Role Of Policy in Reducing Malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa

Event 29 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition, Public Health
Role Of Policy In

Plenary: A nutritious food systems call to research and policy action

Event 29 June 2023, 10:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Environments, Food Systems, Nutrition
A nutritious food systems

Plenary: Scaling post-farmgate innovations to support healthy diets

Event 29 June 2023, 10:10 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Economics, Food Safety, Food Environments, Food Systems, Nutrition, Other
Scaling post-farmgate innovations

Mini poster presentations & Poster viewing

Event 29 June 2023, 11:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Gender and Equity, Nutrition, Public Health
ANH2023 Poster 29 June

Parallel thematic session E: Equity in agriculture, food systems, nutrition and health

Event 29 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems, Gender and Equity, Nutrition, Public Health
Parallel thematic session E

Parallel thematic session F: Innovative methods, tools, and metrics

Event 29 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Public Health, Other
Parallel thematic session F

Plenary: Trade and the right to food

Event 29 June 2023, 15:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Economics, Food Environments, Food Systems, Social Sciences
Trade and the right to food

Side event: Malawi post the 2021 UNFSS: Food politics, governance and accountability of food systems actors

Event 29 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health
Malawi post the 2021 UNFSS: Food politics, governance and

Side event: The new FAO Food Systems-Based Dietary Guidelines (FSBDGs) Methodology: Principles, Approach, Country Experiences And Future Directions

Event 29 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Nutrition, Public Health
FAO Food Systems-Based Dietary Guidelines (FSBDGs)

Side event: Going Deeper With Data And Methods To Improve Understanding Of Food And Nutrition Security Linkages (Online)

Event 29 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Nutrition, Public Health
Side Event Going Deeper With Data And Methods To Improve Understanding Of Food And Nutrition Security Linkages (Online)

Side event: Re-Imagining Insect Cuisine and Curriculum Development with Chefs

Event 29 June 2023, 17:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Nutrition
Side Event: Re-Imagining Insect Cuisine

Social Events: Offsite Social (Khichini Hub)

Event 29 June 2023, 18:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Offsite Social Khichini hub

Side event: What Is Food Systems Research? An Example Of Fruits And Vegetables For Healthy Diets In Benin

Event 30 June 2023, 08:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Food Systems
What Is Food Systems

Side event: Contribution of terrestrial animal source food to healthy diets for improved nutrition and health outcomes “ an overview of the evidence and gaps with implications for research

Event 30 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Animals and Livestock, Nutrition, Public Health
Contribution of terrestrial animal

Side event: Local food, Health and Nutrition

Event 30 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Environment, Nutrition, Public Health
Local food, Health and

Side Event: Nutritious food systems call to research and policy action consultation

Event 30 June 2023, 08:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Systems, Public Health
Nutritious food systems call to research and policy action consultation

Plenary: Anticipatory action to avert future crises

Event 30 June 2023, 10:00 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Animals and Livestock, Environment, Geography, Nutrition, Planetary Health, Public Health, Other
Anticipatory action to avert

Poster viewing

Event 30 June 2023, 11:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Poster session 30 June ANH2023

Parallel thematic session G: Behavioural research related to diets, nutrition and health

Event 30 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Food Environments, Nutrition, Public Health, Social Sciences
Parallel thematic session G

Parallel thematic session H: Environment, climate change and food systems

Event 30 June 2023, 13:05 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Environment, Food Systems, Planetary Health
Parallel thematic session H

Plenary Keynote speech: Anita Chitaya

Event 30 June 2023, 15:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Other
Keynote speech Anita Chitaya

Closing ceremony

Event 30 June 2023, 16:30 - CAT (GMT+2)
Themes: Agriculture, Nutrition, Public Health
Closing session