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JULY 2024
Feeding – And Nourishing – The Future
When we put children's nutrition first, we see results. A well-nourished mother has a much greater chance of surviving pregnancy and her child of growing up healthy and productive. Good nutrition early in life locks in the potential of our future generations. On the other hand, poor nutrition can have lasting impacts and can trap people into an intergenerational cycle of malnourishment, disease and poverty.
Investing in nutrition and food safety not only saves lives (every dollar invested in nutrition yields $16 in benefits across health and productivity) but is also essential for economic prosperity. Conversely, poor nutrition limits the productivity of the global workforce. Worldwide, malnutrition costs $3.5 trillion annually. Undernutrition has severe lifelong impacts on brain development and contributes to cyclical poverty. Malnourished children perform worse in school and suffer from productivity losses as adults. This can reduce a nation’s economic advancement by at least 8 percentage points.
These wide-ranging and long-lasting effects is why Feed the Future is not only focused on feeding people, but nourishing them. This month, learn more about the role of nutrition in Feed the Future's work, plus other updates and news.
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Nutrition as a Cross-Cutting Priority: A New Q&A with USAID Chief Nutritionist Patrick Webb
Nutrition serves as the foundation for achieving nearly every one of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) foremost development goals, including eradicating poverty, empowering women and improving health. Chief Nutritionist Patrick Webb discusses his priorities in this position and the vital role of nutrition in our global food systems.
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Zambia Announced as Feed the Future Accelerator Country
Zambia is the first Feed the Future Accelerator country highlighted for its committed government, dynamic private sector and high potential for agriculture-led growth. USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman made the announcement, including a $66.8 million investment in the country to help address the current drought, strengthen food security, and build resilience across a variety of sectors.
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USAID Publishes New Resilience Policy
USAID released its updated Resilience Policy, which expands on the original policy released in 2012. The new Resilience Policy provides a roadmap for the Agency’s work over the next decade in helping people, communities, and countries protect and improve their well-being in the face of accelerating shocks and stresses.
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U.S. Agencies Increase Collaboration on Food Loss and Waste
USAID, U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to increase collaboration on reducing food loss and waste, a critical effort to increase the availability and affordability of safe, nutritious food, address the climate crisis, and reduce and eliminate poverty.
MCC Launches Nutrition Investment Toolkit
Since 2004, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has invested more than $5 billion in programs to address the many sources of food insecurity around the world, and now it adds the new Nutrition Investment Toolkit to support the integration of nutrition-smart approaches to development programs.
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Feed the Future is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.
Photo Credit: ILRI/Jean Bizimana
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