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NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY PROJECTS
HIV/AIDS and Food Security
In much of sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS is crippling the livelihood systems of households—especially in rural communities, where nearly 85 percent of the population lives. The long-term effects of the epidemic have eroded the ability of households to produce food and other agricultural products, generate income, and care for and feed family members.
To address this problem, ICRW and Ugandan partners seek to improve household food security in rural communities hit by the AIDS epidemic by increasing collaboration between communities and HIV/AIDS, agriculture and nutrition specialists. The central role of gender in household food security will be addressed in the design of all interventions.
Read the April 2006 Research Update.
Nutrition and Gender Initiative
The goals of the Nutrition and Gender Initiative are to find strategies to reduce malnutrition throughout the life-cycle specifically by identifying pathways to improve birth weights in infants, prevent malnutrition in infancy, and improve the nutritional status of women and adolescent girls. The strategies will seek to understand how to empower women by enhancing their roles, social status and decision-making capabilities and how this can lead to improvements in nutritional status. This initiative will work in West Africa and South Asia, both areas of great need.
The Nutrition and Gender Initiative will take a multi-sectoral approach targeting a range of development programs and will combine programmatic, research and policy communication objectives.
For more information, please contact Kavita Sethuraman.