While most of the high-income countries are suffering from over-nutrition related issues, undernutrition remains a significant public health threat in many LMICs, with almost half of all deaths in children under 5 years in LMICs attributable to poor nutrition.
News and events
4 September 2019
16 August 2019
Webinar: Data in Nutrition in collaboration with Sight and Life
8 August 2019
After having followed 120 farmers in Ghana, India, and Nepal for almost 3,500 days across a whole agricultural season, an IMMANA funded project exploring the use of accelerometry-based technologies for measuring energy expenditure has published a field manual for practitioners.
31 July 2019
Elena Martinez, Research Analyst at the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), reflects on some of the key takeaways for empowerment and gender at ANH2019
3 June 2019
Learning Labs, which encompass the first two days of ANH Academy Week, are an integral part of the programme. With a true emphasis on “academy,” they offer a more focused dive into topics of particular interest, enabling attendees to dig into the substance and engage with others on the material.
29 May 2019
The fourth webinar of the joint series in collaboration with Ag2Nut
7 May 2019
The third webinar of the joint series in collaboration with Ag2Nut
3 May 2019
The ANH Academy teamed up with a group of London-based school students who employed geospatial methods to map their local food environments. Find out about the work and view the maps!
3 May 2019
Join us in London to hear about a recent public engagment initiative between the ANH Academy and Grey Coat School, in which 6th form students expored and mapped their local food environments. Chris Turner, who leads the ANH Academy Working Group on Food Environments, will introduce a session whereby the students will present their geospatial maps; highlighting the main findings, reflecting on the exercise, and discussing what can be learnt from employing food environment research methods to better understand food systems and diets.
23 April 2019
The ANH Academy Week relocates each year in order to lower barriers to entry for the global community of researchers, practitioners and policymakers in agriculture-food systems, nutrition and health. Janet Hodur explores why India is a fitting host for this year's event.
18 April 2019
Recent health statistics underscore an evolving and deeply complex nutrition situation in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Megan Deitchler introduces a short video developed by the Intake programme which provides an overview of the changing nutrition situation in LMICs and highlights how dietary data can be used to inform the design of evidence-based nutrition and agriculture policies and programs.
16 April 2019
Are you presenting at the upcoming ANH Academy Week in Hyderabad? Or would you just like to improve your presentation skills? This is a session for you!
12 March 2019
Dear ANH Academy members,
I would like to bring to your attention a Summer School on Global Challenges to Food Security hosted by SOAS University of London.
I would be grateful if you could circulate this information among your students and colleagues. This will be particularly interesting for students and practitioners working on agriculture, food and nutrition in low and middle-income countries.
6 March 2019
This first webinar of the joint series in collaboration with Ag2Nut