Linking agriculture and nutrition education to improve infant and young child feeding: Lessons for future programmes.

ABSTRACT: Agriculture and food systems play a central role in nutrition by supplying nutritious, healthy and affordable foods. When integrated with nutrition education for behaviour change, agricultural interventions that supply diverse affordable foods from all food groups have great scope for improving young child and family diets. In 2014, process reviews were conducted in Cambodia and Malawi of food security projects that provided agricultural support and community-based nutrition education on improved infant and young child feeding (IYCF). In both countries, household visits were carried out with mothers/caregivers, and interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) were conducted with purposively selected project stakeholders (53 in Cambodia, 170 in Malawi), including government staff from the

SUBMITTER: Muehlhoff E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6865961 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature