Frequency and perceived difficulty of household water experiences in Morogoro, Tanzania: Evidence of the psychosocial burden of water insecurity

Cassandra L. Workman, Joshua D. Miller, Sameer H. Shah, Kenneth Maes, Yihewnew Tesfaye, Kenneth M. Mapunda. (2023). SSM - Mental Health, (2023), 100295

Water Security

Social Science

Respondent biases in agricultural household surveys

Dillon & Mensah. (2024). Journal of Development Economics, 166(2024), 103198

Developing an innovative approach to measuring the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and testing critical linkages from farmer livelihoods to nutrition

IMMANA Grant 

Gender

Agriculture

Household Survey

Zoo-Sanitary Situation Assessment, an Initial Step in Country Disease Prioritization Process: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis from 2000 to 2020 in Cameroon

Mouliom Mouiche, Nguemou Wafo, Mpouam, Moffo, Kameni Feussom, Njayou Ngapagna, Mfopit, Saegerman, Abdoulmoumini (2023). Pathogens, 12(9), 12091076

Livestock

Infectious Diseases

Systematic Review

Disease Control

Assessing needs for interdisciplinarity in agriculture, nutrition, and health education. 

Roshania, Yates, McIntyre, Chancellor, Fivian, Hill, Isoto, Marinda, Narayanan, Whatford, Zotor & Khandelwal (2023). Global Food Security, 37, 100691

Interdisciplinarity

Agriculture

Nutrition

Health

Education

The availability and geographic location of open-source food composition data used to estimate micronutrient intakes in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review

de la Revilla, Ferguson, Dooley, Osman, Ander & Joy (2023). Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 120, 105322

Food Composition

Micronutrients

Sub-Saharan Africa

Spatial Variability

Changes in children’s and adolescents’ dietary intake after the implementation of Chile’s law of food labeling, advertising and sales in schools: a longitudinal study

Fretes, Corvalán, Reyes, Taillie, Economos, Wilson & Cash (2023). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 20(1), 40.

Maternal and child health

Food environments

Social science

Variations in household water affordability and water insecurity: An intersectional perspective from 18 low- and middle-income countries

Shah, Harris, Menghwani, Stoler, Brewis, Miller, & Young (2023). Environment and Planning F, 26349825231156900.

Water

Economics

Social science

Adolescent girls in aquaculture ecozones at risk of nutrient deficiency in Bangladesh development and validation of an integrated metric

Grieve, Mamun, de Roos, Barman, Ara, Roos & Little (2023). BMC Public Health, 23(1), 1-13.

Aquatic Food for Health and Nutrition (AQN): A metric for assessing the impacts on nutrition and health of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Maternal and child health

Gender and equity

Aquaculture

Human health effects of recycling and reusing food sector consumer plastics: A systematic review and meta-analysis of life cycle assessments

Deeney, Green, Yan, Dooley, Yates, Rolker & Kadiyala (2023). Journal of Cleaner Production, 136567.

Public health

Food systems

Plastics

Circular economy

Automated wearable cameras for improving recall of diet and time use in Uganda: a cross-sectional feasibility study

Bulungu, Palla, Nambooze, Priebe., Forsythe, Katic & Ferguson (2023). Nutrition Journal, 22(1), 1-14.

Using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to understand the relationships between labour-saving agricultural innovations, women’s time use and maternal and child nutrition outcomes IMMANA Grant

Gender and equity

Nutrition

Social science

Agriculture

The burdens of participation: A mixed-methods study of the effects of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program on women’s time use in Malawi

Margolies, Colantuoni, Morgan, Gelli, & Caulfield (2023). World Development, 163, 106122.

Leveraging value chains to improve nutrition: collaborative learning initiative on methods and metrics for improving the identification, design and evaluation of interventions IMMANA Grant

Gender and equity

Nutrition

Social science

Bioaccessibility of iron in pearl millet flour contaminated with different soil types

Muleya, Young, Broadley, Joy, Chopera & Bailey (2022). Food Chemistry, 134277.

Micronutrients

Nutrition

Inequality of household water security follows a Development Kuznets Curve

Mao, Miller, Young, Krause, Hannah and the HWISE Research Coordination Network (2022) Nature Communications 13

HWISE: A novel tool for the assessment of household-level water insecurity: scale refinement, validation, and manual development IMMANA Grant

Water 

Gender and Equity

Systematic evidence and gap map of research linking food security and nutrition to mental health

Sparling, Deeney, Cheng, Han, Lier, Lin, Offner, Santoso, Pfeiffer, Emerson, Amadi, Mitu, Corvalan, Verdeli, Araya, Kadiyala (2022) Nature Communications 13

Mental Health

Food Security

Nutrition

Making the most of existing research: an evidence gap map of the effects of food systems interventions in low-income and middle-income countries

Storhaug, Lane, Moore, Engelbert, Sparling, Snilstveit (2022) BMJ Open

Food systems

Understanding the effects of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions with participatory videos and women's group meetings on maternal and child nutrition in rural Odisha, India: A mixed-methods process evaluation

Prost, Harris-Fry, Mohanty, Parida, Krishnan, Fivian, Rath, Nair, Mishra, Padhan, Pradhan, Sahu, Skordis, Danton, Koniz-Booher, Beaumont, James, Allen, Elbourne, & Kadiyala. (2022) Maternal and Child Nutrition, e13398

Nutrition

Gender and Equity

A simplified measure of nutritional empowerment using machine learning to abbreviate the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI)

Saha and Narayanan (2022). World Development, vol 154

The Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI): Measuring nutritional empowerment to better link agriculture to nutrition IMMANA Grant

Gender and Equity

Nutrition

Drivers of food acquisition practices in the food environment of peri-urban Hyderabad, India: A qualitative investigation

Turner, Bhogadi, Walls, Surendran, Kulkarni, Kinra, Kadiyala (2022). Health and Place, 74

Food environment

Water sharing is a distressing form of reciprocity: Shame, upset, anger, and conflict over water in twenty cross-cultural sites

Wutich, Rosinger, Brewis, Beresford & Young. Household Water Insecurity Experiences Research Coordination Network. (2022). American Anthropologist.

Water security

Social science

Fragile contexts

Can virtual events achieve co-benefits for climate, participation, and satisfaction? Comparative evidence from five international Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week conferences

Yates, Kadiyala, Li, Levy, Endashaw, Perlick, Wilde (2022), Lancet Planetary Health

Estimation of nutritional postharvest losses along food value chains: A case study of three key food security commodities in sub-Saharan Africa

Bechoff, Shee, Mvumi, Ngwenyama, Debelo, Ferruzzi, Nyanga, Mayanja, & Tomlins (2022), Food Security

NUTRI-P-LOSS: Nutritional Postharvest Loss Estimation Methodology  IMMANA Grant

Agriculture

Food systems

2021

A food‐based approach could improve dietary adequacy for 12–23‐month‐old Eastern Ugandan children

Kimere, Nambooze, Lim, Bulungu, Wellard, & Ferguson (2021), Maternal & Child Nutrition

The effects of food systems interventions on food security and nutrition outcomes in low- and middle-income countries

Moore, Lane, Storhaug, Franich, Rolker, Furgeson, Sparling, Snilstveit (2021) 3ie Evidence Gap Map Report 16. International Initiative for Impact Evaluation

Export-Driven, Extensive Coastal Aquaculture Can Benefit Nutritionally Vulnerable People

Mamun, Murray, Sprague, McAdam, Roos, de Roos, Pounds & Little (2021), Frontiers in Global Food Systems

Aquatic Food for Health and Nutrition (AQN): A metric for assessing the impacts on nutrition and health of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Animals and livestock

Economic inequality in malnutrition: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

 Alao, Nur, Fivian, Shankar, Kadiyala & Harris-Fry (2021), BMJ Global Health

Nutrition 

Gender and Equity

Household-level consumption data can be redistributed for individual-level Optifood diet modeling: analysis from four countries

Knight, Woldt, Sethuraman, Bergeron & Ferguson (2021), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Agri-food: Development and validation of a rapid assessment tool to identify nutrient gaps in local food systems and help design nutrition sensitive interventions for agriculture project IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Food  environments

Trust and responsibility in food systems transformation. Engaging with Big Food: marriage or mirage?

Yates, Gillespie, Savona, Deeney & Kadiyala (2021), BMJ Global Health

Food environments

Food systems

Conflict exposure and food consumption pathways during and after conflict: Evidence from Northern Uganda 

Adong, Kornher, Kiptoo Kirui & von Braun (2021), World Development, 147.

Using high-frequency data to validate the resilience metrics for food security and women dietary diversity amidst Covid-19 in Uganda, IMMANA Fellow

Public health

Agriculture

How different hermetic bag brands and maize varieties affect grain damage and loss during smallholder farmer storage

Ngwenyama, Mvumi, Stathers, Nyanga & Siziba (2022). Crop Protection, 153.

Agriculture

Food safety

Fruit and vegetable intake and mental health among family caregivers of people with dementia in Uganda 

Ainamani, Bamwerinde, Rukundo, Tumwesigire, Mfitumukiza, Bikaitwoha & Tsai (2021). Mental Health and Prevention, 24.

Mental health benefits of gardening and diet among caregivers of people with dementia in rural southwestern Uganda, IMMANA Fellow

Mental health

Nutrition

Public health

The Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: comparison scores from 27 sites in 22 countries

Stoler, Miller, Adams, Ahmed, Alexander, Asiki & Young (2021). Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development.

Water security

Public health

Global Mental Health and Nutrition: Moving Toward a Convergent Research Agenda

Sparling, Cheng, Deeney, Santoso, Pfeiffer, Emerson & Kadiyala. Frontiers in Public Health, 1483.

Mental Health Working Group

Mental health

Nutrition

Public health

Effects of dietary and health factors on nutritional status of children in pastoral settings in Borana, southern Ethiopia, August–October 2015

Megersa, Haile & Kitron (2021). Archives of Public Health, 79(1), 1-11.

Public health

Nutrition

Rural livelihoods

Empowerment and nutrition in Niger: insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition grid

Lentz, Bageant & Narayanan (2021). Food Security, 1-18.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Public health

Economic evaluation of an early childhood development center–based agriculture and nutrition intervention in Malawi

Gelli, Kemp, Margolies, Twalibu, Katundu & Levin (2021). Food Security, 1-14.

Economics

Agriculture

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Framework Linking Food, Health and Institutions

Narayanan, Lentz, Fontana & Kulkarni (2021). The Journal of Development Studies, 1-18.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Public health

Intervention design and implementation

Water Insecurity is Associated with Lack of Viral Suppression and Greater Odds of AIDS-Defining Illnesses Among Adults with HIV in Western Kenya

Nagata, Miller, Cohen, Frongillo, Weke, Burger & Young (2021). AIDS and Behavior, 1-7.

Water security

Food security

Public health

Epidemiology

Critical Systematic Review of Zoonoses and Transboundary Animal Diseases’ Prioritization in Africa

Mpouam, Mingoas, Mouiche, Kameni Feussom & Saegerman. Pathogens. 2021; 10(8):976. 

Zoonoses

Animal diseases

Livestock

Participation in gardening activity and its association with improved mental health among family caregivers of people with dementia in rural Uganda

Ainamani, Bamwerinde, Rukundo, Tumwesigire, Kalibwani, Bikaitwaho & Tsai (2021). Preventive Medicine Reports, 101412.

Mental health

Gardening

Rural livelihoods

When Communities Pull Their Weight: The Economic Costs of an Integrated Agriculture and Nutrition Home-Grown Preschool Meal Intervention in Malawi

Margolies, Gelli, Daryanani, Twalibu & Levin (2021). Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 42(1), 3-22.

Leveraging value chains to improve nutrition: collaborative learning initiative on methods and metrics for improving the identification, design and evaluation of interventions, IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Maternal and child health

Intervention design and implementation

Household Water and Food Insecurity Are Positively Associated with Poor Mental and Physical Health among Adults Living with HIV in Western Kenya

Miller, Frongillo, Weke, Burger, Wekesa, Sheira, Mocello, Bukusi, Otieno, Cohen, Weiser & Young (2021). The Journal of Nutrition.

Water security

Food security

Public health

Intervention design and implementation

A systematic scoping review of environmental, food security and health impacts of food system plastics

Yates, Deeney, Rolker, White, Kalamatianou, & Kadiyala (2021). Nature Food, 13.

IMMANA original research

Food security

Ecology, sustainability and environment

Public health

Selenium speciation and bioaccessibility in Se-fertilised crops of dietary importance in Malawi

Muleya, Young, Reina, Ligowe, Broadley, Joy & Bailey  (2021). Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 103841.

Crop science

Nutrition

2020

Understanding Pathways Between Agriculture, Food Systems, and Nutrition: An Evidence and Gap Map of Research Tools, Metrics, and Methods in the Last 10 Years

Sparling, White, Boakye, John & Kadiyala (2020). Advances in Nutrition, nmaa158.

Evidence and Gap Map, IMMANA original research

Monitoring and evaluation

ALL

Intrinsic and instrumental agency associated with nutritional status of East African women

Jones, Haardörfer, Ramakrishnan, Yount, Miedema, Roach & Girard (2020). Social Science & Medicine, 247, 112803.

Women’s empowerment in livestock-focused agriculture: Identifying and understanding pathways to impact for maternal and child nutrition in East Africa, IMMANA Grant

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

A Community-Based Early Childhood Development Center Platform Promoting Diversified Diets and Food Production Increases the Mean Probability of Adequacy of Intake of Preschoolers in Malawi: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Gelli, Nguyen, Santacroce, Twalibu, Margolies & Katundu (2020). The Journal of Nutrition, 150(2), 350-355.

Leveraging value chains to improve nutrition: collaborative learning initiative on methods and metrics for improving the identification, design and evaluation of interventions, IMMANA Grant

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

implementationalIntervention design and implementation

Validation of a life-logging wearable camera method and the 24-h diet recall method for assessing maternal and child dietary diversity

Bulungu, Palla, Priebe, Forsythe, Katic, Varley & Ferguson (2020). British Journal of Nutrition, 1-11.

Using Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) to understand the relationships between labour-saving agricultural innovations, women’s time use and maternal and child nutrition outcomes, IMMANA Grant

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Measuring the nutritional cost of insect infestation of stored maize and cowpea

Stathers, Arnold, Rumney & Hopson (2020). Food Security, 1-24.

NUTRI-P-LOSS: Nutritional Postharvest Loss Estimation Methodology, IMMANA Grant

Crop science

Nutrition

Cash water expenditures are associated with household water insecurity, food insecurity, and perceived stress in study sites across 20 low-and middle-income countries

Stoler, Pearson, Staddon, Wutich, Mack, Brewis & Balogun (2020). Science of the Total Environment, 716, 135881.

A novel tool for the assessment of household-level water insecurity: scale refinement, validation, and manual development, IMMANA Grant

Water security

Food security

Economics

Intervention design and implementation

Mental health

Gender, time-use, and energy expenditures in rural communities in India and Nepal

Picchioni, Zanello, Srinivasan, Wyatt & Webb (2020). World Development, 136, 105137.

New Keys for Old Black Boxes: Developing Methods to Improve Nutrition Assessment by Measuring Energy Expenditure, IMMANA Grant

Gender, empowerment and equity

Subsistence agriculture

Food environment research in low-and middle-income countries: a systematic scoping review

Turner, Kalamatianou, Drewnowski, Kulkarni, Kinra & Kadiyala (2020). Advances in Nutrition, 11(2), 387-397.

Food security

Nutrition

Development and Evaluation of a Novel Diet Quality Screener for Global Use

Gicevic, Mou, Bromage, Fung, & Walter (2020). Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(Supplement_2), 1168-1168.

Selma Gicevic, IMMANA Fellow

Nutrition

Non-communicable diseases

Dietary diversity scores, nutrient intakes and biomarkers vitamin B12, folate and Hb in rural youth from the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

Ganpule-Rao, Bhat, Yajnik, & Rush (2020). British Journal of Nutrition, 1-8.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Food Access and Nutritional Status of Rural Adolescents in India: Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

Ganpule-Rao, Roy, Karandikar, Yajnik & Rush (2020). American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Food security

(Un) Cultivating the Disease of Maize: Pellagra, Policy and Nutrition Practice in Lesotho, c. 1933–1963

Conz (2020). Journal of Southern African Studies, 1-18.

Nutrition

Policymaking

The association between crop and income diversity and farmer intra-household dietary diversity in India

Singh, Jones, DeFries & Jain (2020). Food Security, 1-22.

Subsistence agriculture

Nutrition

Regional differences in agricultural and socioeconomic factors associated with farmer household dietary diversity in India

Singh, Jones & Jain (2020). Plos one, 15(4), e0231107.

Subsistence agriculture

Nutrition

Economics

Dietary Intake of Infant and Young Children and Assessment of Dietary Adequacy Indicators in a Pastoral Setting, Southern Ethiopia

Megersa (2020). Nutrition and Dietary Supplements, 12, 1.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

Intervention design and implementation

Energy and Nutrient Intake and Associated Factors Among Pastoral Children in Southern Ethiopia

Megersa, Haile & Kitron (2020). Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 0379572120953042.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

PROTOCOL: Evidence and gap map protocol: Understanding pathways between agriculture and nutrition: An evidence and gap map of tools, metrics and methods developed and applied in the last 10 years

Sparling, White, & Kadiyala (2019). Campbell Systematic Reviews, 15(3).

Monitoring and evaluation

ALL

Linking agroecosystems producing farmed seafood with food security and health status to better address the nutritional challenges in Bangladesh

de Roos, Roos, Mamun, Ahmed, Sneddon, Murray & Little (2019). Public health nutrition, 22(16), 2941-2949.

Aquatic Food for Health and Nutrition (AQN): A metric for assessing the impacts on nutrition and health of agroecosystems producing farmed seafood, IMMANA Grant

Aquaculture and fisheries

Nutrition

Agroecology

Dietary Diversity Measures Derived from Food Frequency Methods Are Weak Proxies for Anthropometric Indicators of Child Nutrition in East Africa

Gosdin, Ramakrishnan & Girard (2019). Current developments in nutrition, 3(Supplement_1), (P11-111-19).

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

Women’s empowerment, food security and nutrition of pastoral communities in Tanzania

Galiè, Teufel, Girard, Baltenweck, Dominguez-Salas, Price & Smith (2019). Global Food Security, 23, 125-134.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Maternal and child health

Food security

Subsistence agriculture

Strengths and limitations of computer assisted telephone interviews (CATI) for nutrition data collection in rural Kenya

Lamanna, Hachhethu, Chesterman, Singhal, Mwongela, Ng’endo & Rosenstock (2019). PloS one, 14(1), e0210050.

Surveillance of Climate‐Smart Agriculture for Nutrition (SCAN), IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Maternal and child health

Designing interventions in local value chains for improved health and nutrition: Insights from Malawi

Donovan & Gelli (2019). World Development Perspectives, 16, 100149.

Leveraging value chains to improve nutrition: collaborative learning initiative on methods and metrics for improving the identification, design and evaluation of interventions, IMMANA Grant

Intervention design and implementation

Nutrition

Economics

Subsistence agriculture

Public health

Developing the women's empowerment in nutrition index in two states of India

Narayanan, Lentz, Fontana, De & Kulkarni (2019). Food Policy, 89, 101780.

The Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Index (WENI): Measuring nutritional empowerment to better link agriculture to nutrition, IMMANA Grant

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Last and least: Findings on intrahousehold undernutrition from participatory research in South Asia

Lentz, Narayanan & De (2019). Social Science & Medicine, 232, 316-323.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Food security

Rural Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition: A Proposal for Diagnostics Linking Food, Health and Institutions

Narayanan, Fontana, Lentz & Kulkarni (2017). Health and Institutions (September 30, 2017).

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Women’s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh

Narayanan, Rathore & Sharma (2019). Available at SSRN 3332959.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Policy making

The cost of a nutritious diet in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka

Dizon, Herforth, & Wang, (2019). Global Food Security, 21, 38-51.

Indicators of Affordability of Nutritious Diets in Africa (IANDA), IMMANA Grant

Nutrition

Economics

Policy making

The Cost of Recommended Diets: Development and Application a Food Price Index Based on Food-Based Dietary Guidelines

Herforth, Masters, Bai & Sarpong (2019). Current developments in nutrition, 3(Supplement_1), (P10-033-19).

Nutrition

Economics

Policy making

Determinants of postharvest losses along smallholder producers maize and Sweetpotato value chains: an ordered Probit analysis

Shee, Mayanja, Simba, Stathers, Bechoff, & Bennett (2019). Food Security, 11(5), 1101-1120.

Subsistence agriculture

Nutrition

Economics

Gender, empowerment and equity

The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle-income countries

Young, Boateng, Jamaluddine, Miller, Frongillo, Neilands & Stoler (2019). BMJ global health, 4(5), e001750.

Water security

Food security

Policymaking

Data Collection in Cross-cultural Ethnographic Research

Wutich & Brewis (2019). Field Methods, 31(2), 181-189.

Data science

Water security

Household water sharing: a missing link in international health

Stoler, Brewis, Harris, Wutich, Pearson, Rosinger & Young (2019). International health, 11(3), 163-165.

Water security

Policymaking

Communicable diseases

Fragile contexts

Public health

“If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far‐reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low‐and middle‐income countries

Schuster, Butler, Wutich, Miller, Young, Household Water Insecurity Experiences‐Research Coordination Network (HWISE‐RCN) & Brewis (2020). American Journal of Human Biology, 32(1), e23357.

Maternal and child health

Water security

Water sharing, reciprocity, and need: A comparative study of interhousehold water transfers in sub‐Saharan Africa

Brewis, Rosinger, Wutich, Adams, Cronk, Pearson & Household Water Insecurity Experiences‐Research Coordination Network (HWISE‐RCN) (2019). Economic Anthropology, 6(2), 208-221.

Water security

Fragile contexts

Economics

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐and middle‐income countries

Brewis, Workman, Wutich, Jepson, Young, Household Water Insecurity Experiences–Research Coordination Network (HWISE‐RCN) & Boivin (2020). American Journal of Human Biology, 32(1), e23309.

Water security

Food security

Intervention design and implementation

Evaluating pictorial charts as a means of collecting participant-recorded data on household dietary diversity in low-literacy communities in Tanzania

de Bruyn, Msuya & Ferguson (2019). British Journal of Nutrition, 122(12), 1432-1440.

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Origins and Pathways of Agricultural Demonstration in Lesotho, Southern Africa, 1924–1960s

Conz (2019). Agricultural History, 93(2), 233-263.

Subsistence agriculture

Political economy

Low breastmilk vitamin A concentration is prevalent in rural Ethiopia

Abebe, Haki, Schweigert, Henkel & Baye (2019). European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 73(8), 1110-1116.

Maternal and child health

Intervention design and implementation

Dietary diversity cutoff values predicting anemia varied between mid and term of pregnancy: a prospective cohort study

Zerfu, Baye & Faber (2019). Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 38(1), 44.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Adaptation of a mental development assessment tool for the evaluation of the long‐term effect of a successful nutrition intervention in Ghana

Mohammed & Aboud (2019). Maternal & child nutrition, 15(4), e12829.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Mental health

Food security

Agricultural trade policies and child nutrition in low-and middle-income countries: a cross-national analysis

Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Vollmer, Avendano & Harttgen (2019). Globalization and health, 15(1), 21.

Political economy

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

The women’s empowerment in livestock index

Galiè, Teufel, Korir, Baltenweck, Girard, Dominguez-Salas & Yount (2019). Social Indicators Research, 142(2), 799-825.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

Women’s empowerment in East Africa: Development of a cross-country comparable measure

Miedema, Haardörfer, Girard & Yount (2018). World Development, 110, 453-464.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

Policy making

Women's empowerment is associated with maternal and child diet diversity but not household food security in pastoral communities in Tanzania

Girard Baltenweck, Dominguez‐Salas, Galie, Harris, Jones & Yount (2017). The FASEB Journal, 31, 455-5.

Maternal and child health

Gender, empowerment and equity

Food security

Subsistence agriculture

Probabilistic decision tools for determining impacts of agricultural development policy on household nutrition

Whitney, Lanzanova, Muchiri, Shepherd, Rosenstock, Krawinkel & Luedeling (2018). Earth's Future, 6(3), 359-372.

Probabilistic Causal Models for Nutrition Outcomes of Agricultural Actions, IMMANA Grant

Policy making

Food security

Nutrition

Ethnobotany and agrobiodiversity: Valuation of plants in the homegardens of southwestern Uganda

Whitney, Bahati, & Gebauer (2018). Ethnobiology Letters. 9 (2): 90-100.

Agroecology

Subsistence agriculture

Ecology, sustainability and environment

Food security

Using a community-based early childhood development center as a platform to promote production and consumption diversity increases children's dietary intake and reduces stunting in Malawi: a cluster-randomized trial

Gelli, Margolies, Santacroce, Roschnik, Twalibu, Katundu & Ruel (2018). The Journal of nutrition, 148(10), 1587-1597.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Monitoring and evaluation

Intervention design and implementation

Complicating narratives of women’s food and nutrition insecurity: Domestic violence in rural Bangladesh

Lentz (2018). World Development, 104, 271-280.

Gender, empowerment and equity

Food security

Nutrition

Measuring the affordability of nutritious diets in Africa: price indexes for diet diversity and the cost of nutrient adequacy

Masters, Bai, Herforth, Sarpong, Mishili, Kinabo & Coates (2018). American journal of agricultural economics, 100(5), 1285-1301.

Nutrition

Economics

Intervention design and implementation

Policymaking

The influence of crop production and socioeconomic factors on seasonal household dietary diversity in Burkina Faso

Somé & Jones (2018). PloS one, 13(5), e0195685.

Developing an innovative approach to measuring the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and testing critical linkages from farmer livelihoods to nutrition, IMMANA Grant

Food security

Nutrition

Subsistence agriculture

A novel household water insecurity scale: Procedures and psychometric analysis among postpartum women in western Kenya

Boateng, Collins, Mbullo, Wekesa, Onono, Neilands & Young (2018). PloS one, 13(6), e0198591.

Water security

Maternal and child health

Intervention design and implementation

Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale

Young, Collins, Boateng, Neilands, Jamaluddine, Miller & Schuster (2019). BMJ open, 9(1), e023558.

Water security

Food security

Intervention design and implementation

Consumption of dairy, fruits and dark green leafy vegetables is associated with lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO): a prospective cohort study in rural Ethiopia

Zerfu, Pinto & Baye (2018). Nutrition & diabetes, 8(1), 1-7.

Maternal and child health

Nutrition

Farm diversification and food and nutrition security in Bangladesh: empirical evidence from nationally representative household panel data

Islam, von Braun, Thorne-Lyman & Ahmed (2018). Food Security, 10(3), 701-720.

Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, IMMANA Fellow

Subsistence agriculture

Nutrition

Gender, empowerment and equity

Economics

Homegardens and the future of food and nutrition security in southwest Uganda

Whitney, Tabuti, Hensel, Yeh, Gebauer & Luedeling (2017). Agricultural Systems, 154, 133-144.

Food security

Policymaking

Subsistence agriculture

Commercial farming

When less is more: Innovations for tracking progress toward global targets

Rosenstock, Lamanna, Chesterman, Hammond, Kadiyala, Luedeling & van Wijk (2017). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 26, 54-61.

Ecology, sustainability and environment

Food security

Monitoring and evaluation

Policymaking

Lean-season food transfers affect children's diets and household food security: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Malawi

Gelli, Aberman, Margolies, Santacroce, Baulch & Chirwa (2017). The Journal of Nutrition, 147(5), 869-878.

Maternal and child health

Monitoring and evaluation

Nutrition

Food security

Piloting the use of accelerometry devices to capture energy expenditure in agricultural and rural livelihoods: Protocols and findings from northern Ghana

Zanello, Srinivasan & Nkegbe (2017). Development Engineering, 2, 114-131.

Subsistence agriculture

Nutrition

Intervention design and implementation

Policy making

Decision-focused agricultural research

Luedeling & Shepherd (2016). Solutions, 7(5), 46-54.

Agroecology

Ecology, sustainability and environment

Subsistence farming

Policy making

Using a One Health approach to assess the impact of parasitic disease in livestock: how does it add value?

Rushton & Bruce (2017). Parasitology, 144(1), 15-25.

One Health

Commercial farming

Subsistence agriculture