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Bi-Weekly Checkup (3/29/13): A conversation about everything
Has this ever happened to you? You’re talking about an important global problem – let’s say it’s poor nutrition – with a group of colleagues. You’re focusing on a specific issue – for example, the best way to promote healthy eating in BoP communities. But soon the conversation starts to expand - as soon as you address one problem, another one arises...
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- nutrition, public health
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Nutrients: the connecting thread of global health
Is there a thread that connects the world’s gravest health issues, such as malnutrition, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, maternal health and undernourishment during pregnancy, and malaria? You might be surprised to discover that something as simple as nutrients, which are also very complex, can be the connecting thread for all global health concerns.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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NexThought Monday – Crunch Time: How a 1-year grant reshaped a Bangladesh cereal market
Through a pilot, Land O’Lakes International Development discovered that producing nutritious snacks for kids is indeed cheaper and faster when sourced in-country, and working with the right partners. But they also found that making connections between farmers and food processors can strengthen a once-weak value chain with incredible results.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Nutrients for All Google Hangout: Thursday, March 21 at 11:00 am
Good health requires good nutrition. And ensuring global access to nutrient products requires game-changing ideas to help us rethink our connection to the environment, as well as to each other. Join a panel of health and nutrition experts for a Google Hangout on March 21 at 11:00 am EST - part of Ashoka’s “Health Ideas” week on NextBillion Health Care.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Shaping a Market for Nutrient Economies – Part 2: The value of partnerships
As we’ve seen in Ashoka Changemakers’ Nutrients for All campaign, there are several markets involved in bringing nutrient products to consumers. Interventions in these different markets can have a major impact, starting at the earliest stages in a product’s development, and they often involve multiple partners. This post, the second in a two-part series, shows how these interventions work in practice.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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The Inextricable Link Between Health and Nutrition: How strategic design can change health behaviors
When it comes to promoting good nutrition, many innovators in the health space are starting to target people’s surrounding conditions rather than their individual behavior. Creating well-placed adjustments to an environment can unleash massive changes in people’s daily routine. By forming new habits through convenience instead of via force and enlightenment, design changes can help make health and nutrients available for all.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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