FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Home Grown School Feeding – October 2018

Can Preschools or Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers be a venue for promoting nutritious food consumption among young children?

Can an integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention through an ECD center benefit children’s diet and reduce stunting?

What are the various implications of introducing such interventions in preschools?

World Food Day 2018 and its vision of #ZeroHunger World  we welcome the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to share global evidence and findings from recent study in Malawi supporting the nexus between nutrition and young child development.

Speaker: Aulo Gelli, International Food Policy Research Institute

Presentation downloads:

1. 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, Roshnik, TWalibu, Katundu, Moestue, Alderman, and Ruel)
2.  The Nexus Between Nutrition and Early Childhood Development (Alderman and Fernald)
3.  Home-grown School Feeding: A framework to link school feeding with local agricultural production (Espejo, Barbano, and Galliano)
4.  Preschool Health and Nutrition: Guidance for Program Managers (Roschnik and Hilari)
5. Costs, and Cost-outcome of School Feeding Programmes and Feeding Programmes for Young Children: Evidence and recommendations (Kristjansson, Gelli, Greenhalgh, Liberato, Francis, and Espejo)

The School Health and Nutrition webinar series monthly presentations by leading policy-makers, researchers and implementers engaged in improving the health and education of children in low and middle-income countries across the globe.