New research from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition was recently published in Food Security. “The effects of male out-migration on household food security in rural Nepal ” details gender and food insecurity focusing on male-out migration in the mountains of Far West Nepal. (To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to examine male out-migration effects on household food security in this region in Nepal).
Updates from the Nutrition Innovation Lab
November 6, 2019
October 4, 2019
Fish has always been a food source that is rich in many nutrients. In a paper recently published by Dr. Andrew Throne-Lyman, he points out that the nutrient composition of fish is enough to improve nutrition in malnourished communities living near fisheries.
September 23, 2019
Newly published research investigating the relation of maternal aflatoxin exposure with adverse birth outcomes such as birth weight, birth length, anthropometric z scores, low birth weight, small-for-gestational-age, stunting, and preterm birth.
Twenty percent of infants were of low birth rate and 32% were small-for-gestational-age. Sixteen percent of infants were stunted at birth and 13% of infants were born preterm.
July 24, 2019
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June 18, 2019
In collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition conducted the Second National Workshop titled “Nutrition Research Designs and Methods”, in Kathmandu, Nepal from April 21-27, 2019.
May 9, 2019
Dr. Shibani Ghosh and Dr. Robin Shrestha from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition attended the Colorful Harvest: From Feeding to Nourishing a Growing World- Horticulture Research for Development Conference. Dr.
April 19, 2019
By: Dr. Bernadette Chimera
Clinical Coordinator
Postgraduate Dietetics Program, College of Medicine
February 11, 2019
By: Jacqueline M. Lauer, PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Boston Children's Hospital
January 4, 2019
In late November 2018, the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition hosted two successful trainings on advanced nutrition support for dietetic students, registered dietitians, critical care nurses, and doctors working at the two major tertiary hospitals in Malawi — Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe and Queens Central Hospital in Blantyre. There were also doctors and dietitians from private hospitals in attendance, including Baylor Children’s Hospital and Blantyre Adventist Hospital.
January 4, 2019
My winter began in Kathmandu last week where I attended the 6th Annual Scientific Symposium on Agriculture- Nutrition Pathways organised by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Nutrition. I have attended the Annual event 3 years in a row and this year was extra special as the event also was celebrating 25 years of Nepal’s Progress in Nutrition. What makes this event unique is that it attracts students and young researchers in equal numbers as persons from academia, policy makers and programme implementors in the field of agriculture- nutrition research relevant to Nepal.