• Évaluation du Fonds canadien de recherche sur la sécurité alimentaire internationale (FCRSAI) 

  Universalia Management Group (2016-09)

  Les principaux utilisateurs visés de l’évaluation sont les membres du comité de gouvernance, de l’équipe de direction et du personnel du FCRSAI. Cette évaluation a été créée pour les aider à savoir déterminer les résultats ...
• Réponses de la direction concernant l’évaluation 2016 du Fonds canadien de recherche sur la sécurité alimentaire internationale (FCRSAI) 

  IDRC; Global Affairs Canada (2016)

  Bien que l’évaluation éclaire la prise de décisions sur le FCRSAI pour le reste de la phase 2 de ce dernier, ainsi que tous les futurs programmes conjoints fondés sur des données probantes dans le secteur, les utilisateurs ...
• Management response to the 2016 evaluation of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) 

  IDRC; Global Affairs Canada (2016)

  While the evaluation informs CIFSRF decision-making for the remainder of the duration of CIFSRF Phase 2 and any future joint innovative evidence-based programming in the sector, the final users of this evaluation are ...
• Evaluation of the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF) 

  Universalia Management Group (2016-09)

  The evaluation’s primary intended users are CIFSRF’s Governance Committee (GC), management and staff. The evaluation has been composed to provide them with guidance for determining and communicating program results to ...
• Sustainable agriculture kits (SAKs) reduce drudgery and increase farm income : story of change 

  Sthapit, Sajal; Pudasaini, Roshan; Manish, Raizada (2018-01)

  Several low cost innovations (practices and tools) exist that can reduce drudgery, increase farm productivity and improve lives in smallholder farming systems. However, there is gap in mechanisms for providing the information, ...
• Testing and scaling up of sustainable agriculture kits : story of change 

  Sthapit, Sajal; Pudasaini, Roshan (2018-01)

  Terrace farming is the quintessential farming system in Nepal covering 70% of the country’s farmland. Modern mechanization has not made inroads in terrace farming due to narrow and small plot sizes on a difficult terrain. ...
• Annex 3 Gender tip sheet and stories 

  Horton, Susan; Mosha, TCE; Saleh, Nadira (2017-11)

  This gender tip sheet has been designed for participating SMEs and Retailers to create awareness about gender issues as they relate to the MASAVA project.
• Annex 2 : Research outputs 

  Horton, Susan; Saleh, Nadira; Mosha, TCE (2017-11)

  Research Objectives: 1. Test whether crude sunflower oil can be fortified by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) for local consumption in contexts where inventory turnover is rapid and long shelf- life is not required. 2. ...
• Masava Promoting fortified sunflower oil through eVouchers 

  Horton, Susan; Saleh, Nadira; Mosha, TCE (2017-11)

  MASAVA aimed to show that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can fortify unrefined sunflower oil with vitamin A. The project tested whether eVouchers could incentivize sales and hence could support the sustainability of ...
• Nutrition education promoted consumption of pulse based foods among rural women of reproductive age in Sidama zone, southern Ethiopia 

  Yetnayet, M; Henry, CJ; Berhanu, G; Whiting, SJ; Regassa, N (African Journals Online, 2017-07)

  Nutrition education about locally available, nutritionally rich crops, such as pulses, is one of the promising strategies to reduce the burden of malnutrition among women in rural communities of low- income and middle ...
• Impact of an enhanced homestead food production program on household food production and dietary intake of women aged 15-49 years and children aged 6-59 months : a pragmatic delayed cluster randomized control trial protocol 

  Moumin, Najma A.; Hou, Kroeun; Michaux, Kristina D.; Stormer, Ame; Mundy, Gary (Medip Academy, 2017-10)

  Background: Undernutrition remains a public health problem in Cambodia. To address this, Helen Keller International has implemented an enhanced homestead food production (EHFP) program that provides agricultural inputs ...
• Challenges of empowering women : the experience of pulse innovation project in southern Ethiopia 

  Bekele Geleta, Esayas; Elabor-Idemudia, Paitence; Henry, Carol; Reggassa, Nigatu (SAGE, 2017-10)

  Within the last two decades, women’s empowerment has been the central theme of international development policy and practice. This article seeks to elucidate the challenges of integrating gender in a development project ...
• An ethnographic exploration of perceptions of changes in dietary variety in the Kolli Hills, India 

  Huang, Tian; Farmer, Anna P.; Goddard, Ellen; Willows, Noreen; Subhan, Fatheema (Springer, 2017-06)

  The Malayalis Tribe, a Scheduled Tribe of the Kolli Hills in southern India, has experienced a decrease in the variety of foods consumed in the past 20 years. It is important to understand these changes in dietary patterns ...
• Factors affecting the innovation potential of smallholder farmers in the Caribbean community 

  Lowitt, Kristen; Hickey, Gordon M.; Saint Ville, Arlette; Raeburn, Kaywana; Thompson-Colon, Theresa; Laszlo, Sonia; Phillip, Leroy E. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015-05)

  The need for domestic smallholder farming systems to better support food and nutrition security in the Caribbean is a pressing challenge. The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) faces complex socio-ecological challenges related ...
• MicroVeg Newsletter February 2017 : project update 

  IDRC (2017-02)

  This Newsletter highlights the principles of two scaling up models: the Satellite Dissemination Approach (SDA) and the Innovation Platform (IP) that are being used by MicroVeg Project to expand the reach of agronomic and ...
• Institutional analysis of food and agriculture policy in the Caribbean : the case of Saint Lucia 

  Saint Ville, Arlette S.; Hickey, Gordon M.; Phillip, Leroy E. (Elsevier, 2017-03)

  The role played by various institutions in the domestic agri-food systems of Caribbean nations has become an increasingly important area of research and policy attention. This paper assesses the main policies that have ...
• Novel SNP markers in InvGE and SssI genes are associated with natural variation of sugar contents and frying color in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja 

  Duarte-Delgado, Diana; Juyo, Deissy; Gebhardt, Christiane; Sarmiento, Felipe; Mosquera-Vasquez, Teresa (BioMed Central, 2017-03)

  Background: Potato frying color is an agronomic trait influenced by the sugar content of tubers. The candidate gene approach was employed to elucidate the molecular basis of this trait in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja, ...
• From food security to food wellbeing : examining food security through the lens of food wellbeing in Nepal’s rapidly changing agrarian landscape 

  Gartaula, Hom; Patel, Kirit; Johnson, Derek; Devkota, Rachana; Khadka, Kamal; Chaudhary, Pashupati (Springer, 2016-10)

  This paper argues that existing food security and food sovereignty approaches are inadequate to fully understand contradictory human development, nutrition, and productivity trends in Nepalese small- scale agriculture. In ...
• Characterizing social networks and their effects on income diversification in rural Kerala, India 

  Johny, Judit; Wichmann, Bruno; Swallow, Brent M. (Elsevier, 2017)

  Income diversification continues to be a key strategy for poor rural households, including those that are progressively developing and those operating under increasing distress. The ability of a household to diversify has ...
• Decoding the type 2 diabetes epidemic in rural India 

  Little, Matthew; Humphries, Sally; Patel, Kirit; Dewaya, Cate (Taylor & Francis, 2017-08)

  Type 2 diabetes mellitus is an escalating public health problem in India, associated with genetic susceptibility, dietary shift, and rapid lifestyle changes. Historically a disease of the urban elite, quantitative studies ...

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