Grants Round 1
Awardees
Women’s empowerment in livestock-focused agriculture: Identifying and understanding pathways to impact for maternal and child nutrition in East Africa
Countries of research:
Ethiopia,
Tanzania,
Uganda
Lead organisation: Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Principal investigator:
- Amy Webb Girard, Emory University
Collaborators:
- Usha Ramakrishnan, Emory University
- Kathryn Yount, Emory University
- Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Emory University
- Paula Dominguez-Salas, RVC/ILRI/LCIRAH
- Isabelle Baltenweck, ILRI
- Delia Grace, ILRI
Details
Principal investigator(s):
Amy
Webb Girard
Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University
Paula
Dominguez-Salas
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich
Isabelle
Baltenweck
ILRI
Delia
Grace
International livestock Research Institute
Value:
£249,486
Duration:
36 months (from September 2015)
Probabilistic Causal Models for Nutrition Outcomes of Agricultural Actions
Countries of research:
Germany,
Kenya,
United Kingdom
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Details
Principal investigator(s):
Eike
Luedeling
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) and Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Value:
£250,000
Duration:
24 months (from September 2015)
Surveillance of Climate‐Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (SCAN)
Countries of research:
Ethiopia,
Zambia
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)
Details
Principal investigator(s):
Todd
Rosenstock
ICRAF
Value:
£249,990
Duration:
24 months (from September 2015)
The Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI): Measuring nutritional empowerment to better link agriculture to nutrition
Countries of research:
Bangladesh,
India
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Co-Principal Investigators:
- Sudha Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
- Erin Lentz, University of Texas
Collaborators:
- Bharati Kulkarni, National Institute of Nutrition
Details
Value:
£249,617
Duration:
36 months (from September 2015)
Leveraging value chains to improve nutrition: collaborative learning initiative on methods and metrics for improving the identification, design and evaluation of interventions
Countries of research:
Malawi
International Food Policy Research Institute
Details
Principal investigator(s):
Aulo
Gelli
IFPRI
Value:
£249,669
Duration:
28 months (from September 2015)
Indicators of Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa (IANDA)
Countries of research:
Ghana,
Tanzania
Tufts University
Co-PIs: Anna Herforth, Tufts University and Jennifer Coates, Tufts University
Collaborators:
Rebecca Heidkamp, Johns Hopkins University
William Masters, Tufts University
Daniel Sarpong, University of Ghana
Fulgence Joseph Mishili, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Joyce Kinabo, Sokoine University of Agriculture
Details
Value:
£249,887
Duration:
24 months (from September 2015)
Developing an innovative approach to measuring the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and testing critical linkages from farmer livelihoods to nutrition
Countries of research:
Burkina Faso
University of Michigan
Details
Principal investigator(s):
Andrew
Jones
University of Michigan
Value:
£225,104
Duration:
28 months (from September 2015)
