ANH2019 Research Conference videos
Day 1: Wednesday 26 June 2019
Session 1: Economic drivers of food systems and diets
Chair: Daniel Sarpong, Univeristy of Ghana
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Marco Springman, Univeristy of Oxford: The costs of healthy and sustainable diets in low and middle-income countries
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William Masters, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University: The impact of agricultural production, trade and the food system on global nutrient inequalities and implications for nutrient intervention
- Rebecca Kiwanuka-Lubinda, University of Zambia: Impact of input subsidies on household food availability in rural Zambia: A gendered perspective
- Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Wellcome Trust: The cost of adult diets in relation to their healthiness and environmental sustainability: an analysis of the 2011-2012 Indian National Sample Survey
- Kalyani Raghunathan, International Food Policy Research Institute: How affordable are nutritious diets in India?
- Q&A
Mini Poster Presentations
Session 2A: Empowerment, equity and gender
Chair: Nirmala Nair, Ekjut
- Carly Nichols, University of Arizona: Equity concerns in nutrition-sensitive agriculture promotion practices: A case from central India
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Hayaan Nur, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Do gender inequities in agriculture affect food security and nutrition outcomes?
- Josiah Ateka, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT): Impact of women’s empowerment policies on nutrition outcomes in Kenya
- Alessandra Galie, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI): Understanding empowerment among informal milk traders in peri-urban Nairobi: Informing an adaptation of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index
- Vidya Sachita Reddy Vemireddy, Cornell University: Role of women’s time in agriculture-nutrition linkages: Panel data evidence from rural India
- Q&A
Session 2B: Policy analysis
Chair: Mahendra Dev, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
- Charulatha Banerjee, Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN): Exploring multi-sector programming for nutrition at district level in Senegal, Nepal and Kenya
- Amos Laar, African Nutrition Society (ANS) & University of Ghana: Implementation of healthy food environment policies in Ghana: Gaps and priorities to prevent nutrition-related non-communicable diseases
- Helen Walls, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Does Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) improve dietary diversity?
- Mirriam Matita, University of Malawi: Has the provision of legume seeds subsidies affected dietary diversity? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP)
- Jody Harris, Institute of Development Studies (IDS): Coalitions of the willing? Advocacy coalitions and the transfer of nutrition policy to Zambia
- Q&A
Session 3A: Results from nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes
Chair: A. Laxmaiah, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN)
- Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU): Patterns, determinants and food and nutrition security implications of home gardens in Bangladesh: Evidence from nationally representative household panel data
- Amy Ickowitz, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): From growing food to growing cash: The impact of agrarian transitions on diets and nutrition in rural Indonesia
- Hollyn Cetrone, Northwestern University: A participatory agroecological intervention decreases depression amongst female smallholder farmers in Singida, Tanzania
- Marianne Santoso, Cornell University: Greater production diversity, more men’s involvement in household chores, and lower women’s depression mediate improvements on child’s dietary diversity in a participatory agroecological intervention in Singida, Tanzania
- Heather Ohly, University of Central Lancashire: Exploring the cultural acceptability and sustainability of biofortification in Pakistan
- Mia Blakstad, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University: A cluster-randomized home gardening program improves dietary diversity and food security among rural Tanzanian women
- Q&A
Session 3B: Results from nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes
Chair: Amos Laar, African Nutrition Society (ANS) and University of Ghana
- Pepijn Schreinemachers, World Vegetable Center: Long-term behavioural impact of an integrated home garden intervention in Bangladesh
- Suneetha Kadiyala, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Linkages between land, gender and diets in rural India: A mixed methods approach
- Stella Nordhagen, Helen Keller International (HKI): Sustainability of community-level approaches to nutrition-sensitive agriculture: A case study from Cote d’Ivoire
- Jef Leroy, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): The unintended effects of interventions: A food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition program contributes to postpartum weight retention in Guatemala
- Taddese Zerfu, Africa Population Health Research Center (APHRC): Livestock ownership, not maize production, is associated with maternal anaemia in malaria endemic rural low-income settings
- Babar Shahzad, Khyber Medical University: A randomised controlled trial to examine the effect of consuming flour made from biofortified wheat on the zinc status of women living in a rural community in Pakistan
- Q&A
Fireside Chat
Keynote Speech
Day 2: Thursday 27 June 2019
Special Introduction, Planetary Health
- Lukasz Aleksandrowicz, Wellcome Trust: Our Planet, Our Health
Session 4: Environmental shocks, resource management and sustainable agriculture strategies
Chair: Peter Carberry, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Francesca Harris, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Trading water: Exploring interstate trade of cereals in India
- Ahmadou Ly, Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis: Effects of rainfall shocks on child's nutrition in Senegal
- Thom Achterbosch, Wageningen University & Research (WUR): Healthy diets and reduced land pressure: Towards a double gain for future food systems in Nigeria
- Megan Deeney, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Plastics in the food system: Human health, economic and environmental impacts - a systematic scoping review
- Dominic Rowland, SOAS University of London/Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): The importance of forested landscapes for food security and nutrition across agricultural transitions: A multi-country analysis
- Q&A
Keynote Speech
Session 5A: Climate, environment and resilience
Chair: Richmond Aryeetey, University of Ghana
- Tchègoun Michel Atchikpa, West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use: Adoption and impact of climate-smart innovation on household productivity, food and nutritional security in Benin
- Chris Vogliano, Bioversity International: Can biodiverse food systems reverse the rise of chronic diseases while providing climate change resilience in the Small Island Developing States?
- Mulia Nurhasan, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR): Food consumption patterns and changes in Indonesia’s forested and deforested areas
- Q&A
Session 5B: Nutrition and health issues and animal source foods
Chair: Robyn Alders, University of Sydney and Chatham House
- Nilupa Gunaratna, Purdue University: Evaluation of chicken intensification and nutrition-sensitive social and behaviour change interventions in Ethiopia: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
- Hassan Ishaq Ibrahim, Federal University Dutsin-Ma: Farmers’ awareness, knowledge and perception of zoonotic diseases: Evidence from northern Nigeria
- Haile Tesfay, International Potato Center (CIP): A nutrition-sensitive agriculture project improved household and child dietary diversity and increased consumption of animal source foods: Evidence from Ethiopia
- Q&A
Mini Poster Presentations
Session 6A: Financial incentives and preference analyses for improved nutrition and health
Chair: Sudha Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR)
- Ashraful Alam, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney: Lessons learnt from a mixed-methods feasibility assessment of integrating agriculture and nutrition behaviour change intervention with financial incentive to improve maternal and infant nutrition in rural Bangladesh
- Samyuktha Kannan, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI): Designing nutrition-sensitive crop insurance: A field experiment in India
- Shiva Bhandari, University of South Carolina: An agricultural and finance intervention improved dietary intake and nutritional status of children living in HIV-affected households in western Kenya
- Hussaini Yusuf Ibrahim, Federal University Dutsin-Ma: Impact of smallholder farmers’ participation in contract farming on food and nutrition security outcomes in northwestern Nigeria
- Sushil Raj, Ghimire Welthungerhilfe: Improving dietary diversity by exploring retail outlets: A supply-push and demand-pull strategy for sustainable nutrition ecosystem
- Q&A
Session 6B: Human health and food safety
Chair: Hung Nguyen, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- Aderonke Mohammed, University of Ilorin: Health status of farming households and crop productivity: Evidence from malaria infected households in Nigeria
- Hugo De Groote, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT): Biomarkers of aflatoxin exposure, diet, climate and children’s growth in rural Ethiopia
- Johanna Y Andrews-Trevino, Tufts University: Seasonality of serum aflatoxin levels (AFB1) in pregnancy and early childhood in a longitudinal cohort study in Banke, Nepal
- Julien Z.B. Zahouli, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS): Divergences in Anopheles gambiae behaviours and transmission of malaria and lymphatic filariasis along a rural-suburban gradient in large rice growing areas, Côte d’Ivoire
- Tarique Mohammad Nurul Huda, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR, B): “Safe and Nutritious Food: Ideal Family!”: Improving food hygiene behaviours in Bangladesh through emotional drivers
- Q&A
Panel Discussion
Keynote Speech
Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio, cultural geographers and photojournalists
Day 3: Friday 28 June 2019
IMMANA Special Session
- Thalia Sparling, IMMANA Fellow Tufts University: Understanding pathways between agriculture and nutrition: An evidence and gap map of tools, metrics and methods developed and applied in the last ten years
Panel Discussion
Session 7A: Tools and methods for solving agriculture, nutrition, and health challenges
- Ibukun Owoputi, Cornell University: He said, she said: Using pile sort methods to explore differences in decision-making and resource allocation for food, agriculture, and other costs among couples in Tanzania
- Frances Knight, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Agrifood: A new modelling tool to inform decision making in agriculture-nutrition programming by rapidly examining the potential nutritional, agricultural, environmental and social implications of promoting alternative sets of food-based recommendations
- Gregory Cooper, SOAS University of London: Using spatial group model building approaches to identify food system challenges, policy levers and sustainable evolutionary pathways in Bihar, India
- Amit Kumar Barui, Cornell University: Smartphone based point-of-use determination of aflatoxin in peanuts to ensure safety
- Lukas Pawera, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Developing new quantitative indices for assessing importance, underutilization and potential of edible species for dietary diversity
- Marianne Santose, Northwestern University: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: Development, validation, and implementation of a household water insecurity measure for low- and middle- income countries
- Jan Priebe, Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich: Evaluating interactive voice response (IVR) surveys for measuring dietary intake and time use
- Q&A
Session 7B: Tools and methods for solving agriculture, nutrition, and health challenges
- Anthony Wenndt, Tata-Cornell Institute (TCI), Cornell University: Developing a participatory action research (PAR) approach for mycotoxin management and food spoilage prevention in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
- Tulika Narayan, Abt Associates: Is there a continuing role for biofortification to address micronutrient deficiencies? An agriculture-nutrition tool to identify contexts in which biofortification has an important role to play
- Ana Laura Deaconu, University of Montreal: Agroecology-based alternative food networks may improve Ecuadorian farmers’ diets while promoting food sovereignty and ecological regeneration
- Gianna Bonis-Profumo, Charles Darwin University (CDU): Mixed methods enable a nuanced understanding of the gender pathway from agriculture to nutrition outcomes: A case study in Timor-Leste
- Hannah Holt, Royal Veterinary College (RVC): Hazard prioritisation in resource scarce settings, case study of the Punjabi dairy industry in India
- Ray-Yu Yang, World Vegetable Center: Diversity and nutritional values of vegetables and staples in past and present diets in Taiwan
- Sudha Nagavarapu, Sangtin: Contested narratives of dietary transitions in India: Examining the incommensurability of macro and micro datasets
- Q&A
Session 8A: Food environments and drivers of food choice
- Alysa Grude, ACDI/VOCA: Increasing the productivity and market linkages among smallholder dairy producers in Bangladesh: The effects on total amount sold versus set aside for home consumption
- Reshma Roshania, Emory University: Food environments and child nutrition among circular migrant families working in the brick kilns of Bihar, India
- Christopher Turner, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM): Transitioning food environments, transitioning livelihoods: A qualitative investigation of food acquisition practices from two rapidly urbanising villages in peri-urban Hyderabad, India
- Dare Akerele, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta: Food away from home in Nigeria: Consumption, drivers and nutritional implications of within-day meals
- Gowthami Venkateswaran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Domino’s effect: Impact of fast food chains on urban health in India
- Q&A
Session 8B: Food environments and drivers of food choice
- Celine Termote, Bioversity International: Food-based recommendations to improve dietary adequacy of women living in pastoral and agro-pastoral zones of Turkana County, Kenya
- Archana Konapur, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN): Identification of food environmental factors hindering dietary diversification: A mixed methods study in rural south India
- Samira Choudhury, SOAS University of London: Drivers of fruit and vegetable intake in India: An unconditional quantile regression approach
- Solveig Cunningham, Emory University: Understanding food choices in the context of globalizing food options: Evidence from a novel picture method in India
- Ursula Trübswasser, Wageningen University & Research (WUR): How do adolescents understand their food environment? A pilot study using Photovoice in urban Ethiopia
- Q&A
Closing Remarks
Rachel Lambert: Senior Livelihoods Advisor, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
