From “Why?” to “Let’s Work!” on Kitchen Gardens
Action Against Hunger is carrying out a study in Pakistan on ‘Peoples’ perspective and feasibility of kitchen gardening in different geographical and environmental contexts’ funded under the Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia’s second Responsive Window grant.
Could we get adolescent girls to improve the nutrition status?
BRAC Afghanistan has been piloting a ‘Collective Vegetable Gardening’ concept planned for adolescent girls under LANSA’s second Responsive Window Grant funds. The study looks at promoting vegetable consumption as a key source of vital micronutrient by introducing the girls to vegetable gardening. This blog details how getting a group of Afghan adolescents to grow vegetables collectively can help improve their consumption of vegetables, and this practice in time can improve the nutrition status of the girls.
Gaining knowledge and insight into nutrition research from ANH
Climatic-environmental conditions have an enormous influence on the agricultural cycle, and the economy of rural households in developing countries depends of this. Populations suffer from seasonal energy stress due to fluctuations in access to food, or increased energy expenditure needed for peak agricultural work. Seasonality stands recognised as a constraint to agricultural production, as well as household food and nutrition security. The latter directly reflects on the nutritional status of the household.
