Welcome to IMMANA
The Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) programme aims to improve nutrition and health by strengthening tools, capacity and evidence in agriculture and food systems research.
Through competitive research grants and fellowships, interdisciplinary collaboration and cutting-edge synthesis, this five-year programme will accelerate the development of a robust scientific evidence base needed to guide changes in global agriculture and food systems to feed the world’s population in a way that is both healthy and sustainable.
Latest News
17 December 2021 | Nutrition
A new study 'Export-Driven, Extensive Coastal Aquaculture Can Benefit Nutritionally Vulnerable People' has been published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The paper challenges the ass...
New paper suggests household consumption data can be used for diet modelling of 12-23m children
IMMANA
08 December 2021
Nutrition modelling using Optifood Linear Programming can be used to identify nutrient gaps and help with population-specific food based recommendations (FBRs). One of the limits to using the tool is that it requires dietar...
New paper: How different hermetic bag brands and maize varieties affect grain damage and loss during smallholder farmer storage
IMMANA
30 November 2021
Harvested maize stored by smallholder farmers to provide food between seasons may be in storage for as long as 12 months. During this period it is highly susceptible to insect pest damage.
This new paper, published...
17 December 2021 | Nutrition
A new study 'Export-Driven, Extensive Coastal Aquaculture Can Benefit Nutritionally Vulnerable People' has been published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. The paper challenges the ass...
New paper suggests household consumption data can be used for diet modelling of 12-23m children
IMMANA
08 December 2021
Nutrition modelling using Optifood Linear Programming can be used to identify nutrient gaps and help with population-specific food based recommendations (FBRs). One of the limits to using the tool is that it requires dietar...
New paper: How different hermetic bag brands and maize varieties affect grain damage and loss during smallholder farmer storage
IMMANA
30 November 2021
Harvested maize stored by smallholder farmers to provide food between seasons may be in storage for as long as 12 months. During this period it is highly susceptible to insect pest damage.
This new paper, published...
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