Guidelines for Assessing Nutrition-related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices
Author: Yvette Fautsch Macías
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789251080986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yvette Fautsch Macías
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789251080986
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Yvette Fautsch Macías
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Studies that assess and analyse people's nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) are a useful method for gaining such an insight into peoples' personal determinants of their dietary habits. The manual offers guidance and practical steps for planning and conducting a KAP survey, and for analysing and reporting the survey findings
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9251336164
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →School-based food and nutrition education (SFNE) helps schoolchildren and the school community to achieve lasting improvements in their food practices and outlooks; build the capacity to change and to adapt to external change; and pass on their learning to others. SFNE has also an important role in complementing efforts that are being made globally to improve food environments, and in empowering children and adolescents to become active participants in shaping the food system to be better able to deliver healthy and sustainable diets. Despite increasing interest for SFNE, the evidence that supports it and its potential, much of traditional SFNE, particularly in LMICs, is largely underfunded, not delivering results, and disconnected from other key interventions that aim to support the food, nutrition, environment, and education nexus. SFNE is under-resourced, with capacity development opportunities lacking throughout the school system.This White Paper is the first document of its kind, and it is based on the evidence, professional expertise, and field experience, lessons learned, and documented challenges of SFNE work in a variety of contexts. It presents the case for raising the profile and transforming the vision and learning model of SFNE. This document is directed firstly to a technical audience working in governmental organizations that deal with schoolchildren and adolescents and is also of interest to researchers, technical advisors, decision-makers, donors and investors, civil society, and UN organizations.
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2020-02-10
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9251320535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This technical guidance brief summarizes some of the current thinking on how livestock can address the nutritional needs of vulnerable households and groups. It outlines recommendations for designing and implementing livestock interventions to leverage nutrition outcomes. It is intended for use by programme planners and managers working for government, humanitarian and development agencies involved in designing and implementing livestock-related policies and programmes, with the objective of helping in integration of nutrition outcomes in their work. Additionally, it is aimed at those involved in developing nutritional polices and strategies, to take into consideration the potential of livestock based strategies to improve nutrition.
Author: Hettie Carina Schönfeldt
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2024-05-06
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 2832548830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa is confronted with the triple burden of malnutrition; it is also faced with the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment. In many African countries, large proportions of the population rely on agriculture not only for their food - but also for their livelihoods. A transformed agricultural and food system is thus a necessary condition for addressing this double-triple challenge. Additionally, post harvest and food waste and losses reduce the availability of sufficient quantities of safe, edible and preferable foods. At least one third of food produced at farm level is lost due to inappropriate storage, infrastructure and agro-processing technologies in developing countries; and one third of food purchased is wasted at household and retail level.
Author: Sumantra Ray
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2023-07-27
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 2832530117
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-03-09
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9251099456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This publication provides a list of food system-based intervention options to improve nutrition and a set concrete entry points for maximizing the impact of each intervention. Developed through leveraging different expertise in FAO, it is a key resource to assist professionals involved in different areas - from breeding to production; from food transformation and packaging to transportation and trade; from marketing and value chain to food safety; from food labelling to consumer education - to u nderstand the linkages with nutrition, and to increase their contribution for a world free from malnutrition in all its forms.
Author: Nguyen, Trang
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2020-06-24
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Schools are an attractive entry point to improve children’s diets, as their eating habits can be shaped during childhood and the information disseminated from school can reach adults through children. We implemented a cluster-randomized trial in 12 schools in peri-urban Viet Nam to assess if two school-based interventions increased knowledge of healthy diets among children and their parents, as well as children’s consumption of healthy foods. First, children were given lessons about food before school lunch and encouraged to share the lessons with their parents. Second, children were provided with healthy snacks for five weeks to reinforce messages about healthy eating. We found that in the short term, the nutrition lessons raised the knowledge index score of the children by 0.35 standard deviation. After six months, this intervention retained its effectiveness only for the children who also received free access to fruit, emphasizing the linkage between knowledge and practice. By itself, free access to fruit at school increased the children’s daily fruit consumption by half a portion, but not at the expense of home fruit consumption. Access to healthy foods at school can therefore be an effective measure to raise children’s healthy consumption. Child-parent communication was not a reliable channel for knowledge dissemination in our setting.