Below you will find a chronological archive of IYCN’s quarterly newsletters, news alerts, success stories, updates from the field, event summaries, and more.
Dear colleagues, I am pleased to present the Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project’s Final Report: Our global efforts to prevent malnutrition during the first 1,000 days. The report summarizes the IYCN Project’s accomplishments […]
Date: Mar 20, 2012 | Category: News alerts
Stay up to date on infant and young child feeding The Alive & Thrive (A&T) initiative invites you to join our newsletter list. As the year continues, we will be releasing new program and technical […]
Date: Mar 15, 2012 | Category: News alerts
New IYCN materials IYCN series About IYCN Agriculture resources Community program resources Country briefs Formative assessments Our approaches Technical materials Training and behavior change communication tools Welcome to the eleventh and final issue of the […]
Date: Mar 9, 2012 | Category: Newsletters
We hosted more than a dozen events in 2011—including a series of meetings in Washington, DC, and end-of-project gatherings in seven countries—to celebrate accomplishments, share experiences and resources, and discuss future directions for nutrition programming. […]
Date: Feb 12, 2012 | Category: Events
Dr. Miriam Labbok, Director of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of the Infant & Young Child Nutrition Project’s latest review of breastfeeding literature, reflects […]
Date: Feb 12, 2012 | Category: Q&As
Hadiya1 spoons warm porridge into six-month-old Aminah’s2 mouth and finds that on the first try, Aminah gobbles it up. Hadiya has learned the importance of introducing her daughter to porridge at six months, using nutrient-rich foods like […]
Date: Feb 12, 2012 | Category: Success stories
Welcome to the tenth issue of the IYCN Update, a newsletter from USAID’s Infant & Young Child Nutrition (IYCN) Project. Distributed four times per year, each issue offers updates on the latest research, new resources, and project news.
Date: Nov 24, 2011 | Category: Newsletters
May 2011 In an effort to extend the findings of a study in Nepal that reported a 44 percent decrease in maternal mortality resulting from vitamin A or beta carotene supplementation in pregnancy, researchers conducted […]
Date: Nov 22, 2011 | Category: Research highlights
March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition. They argue that the […]
Date: Nov 22, 2011 | Category: Research highlights
July 2011 Results of a community-based cluster-randomized trial, published in The Lancet in July 2011, demonstrated the impact of peer counseling and support on exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and diarrhea prevalence in Burkina Faso, Uganda, and South Africa. […]
Date: Nov 22, 2011 | Category: Research highlights