Optimizing food-assistance programs: Food assistance improves child growth in Burundi
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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Food-assisted maternal and child health and nutrition (FA-MCHN) programs have long been used to address hunger and hunger-related problems. Traditionally, such programs targeted families with underweight children younger than five. But a landmark IFPRI study in Haiti showed that preventive interventions—those that target all mothers during pregnancy and the first 6 months of lactation as well as children between 6 and 24 months old (the first 1,000 days)—are more effective than traditional recuperative interventions.
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child nutrition, nutrition policies, stunting, hunger, evaluation, malnutrition, nutrition, health services, development programmes, food aid, maternal nutrition, project evaluation, behavioural responses