The Future of Food Assistance for Nutrition: Evidence Summit II
USAID
CORE Group’s Nutrition Working Group invites you to join Dr. Patrick Webb and Dr. Beatrice Lorge Rogers from the Food Aid Quality Review project on Wednesday, December 16, at 9:00 AM (EST) for a presentation on findings, challenges, and emerging concerns proceeding from the recent successful conference, The Future of Food Assistance for Nutrition: Evidence Summit II, and a Q&A discussion centered on the current state of evidence and implications for programming related to food assistance for nutrition.
The Summit was hosted virtually in October 2020 by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance and the Food Aid Quality Review project managed by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Since 2009, the Food Aid Quality Review has been providing USAID and its partners with actionable recommendations on ways to improve nutrition among vulnerable people for whom the direct distribution of food aid can make a significant impact. Explore more information about the project and numerous resources from the Summit at https://foodaidquality.org.
The Summit brought together several hundred practitioners, policymakers, industry professionals, program funders, and researchers from 62 countries to share and discuss new evidence, prioritize future evidence needs, and consider how we can collaborate to support more cost-effective programming aimed at improving nutrition in the context of food assistance interventions of all kinds. The event provided an opportunity to showcase new findings from research studies around the world, covering key food assistance for nutrition themes, including the impacts of pandemics and other disease outbreaks on programming and supply chain logistics, recent advances in science related to nutrition and specialized nutritious food products, and what we still need to know to improve programming.
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