Publications: Nutrition

"Achieving Food and Nutrition Security" The training manual originally published by InWent has now been translated, with EC-FAO programme support, into Russian (August 2008) > More Information > Download manual in Russian (3.7 Mb)

Guidelines for Estimating the Month and Year of Birth of Young Children The guidelines show how to develop a detailed calendar of events to determine the month and year of birth of young children and how to train field workers in using the calendar.

> New Publication: Validation of a Measure of Household Hunger for Cross-Cultural Use (27 May 2010)

> Guidelines for Measuring Household and Individual Dietary Diversity

> Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) for Measurement of Food Access: Indicator Guide

> Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) for Measurement of Food Access: an Indicator Guide

> Making Nutrition a National Priority: Review of Policy Processes in Developing Countries and a Case Study of Malawi

> Technical Assessment of Data Quality and Information Use of the Malawi Integrated Nutrition and Food Security Surveillance System

> Report on the use of the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale and the Household Dietary Diversity Score in two survey rounds in Manica and Sofala Provinces, Mozambique, 2006-2007

> Find out more about the Nutrition Tools

> Summary of the Programme's Nutrition Activities in Kenya

> Summary of the Programme's Nutrition Activities in Malawi

Suggested Readings

>	FAO Nutrition Profiles (for all countries)
>	Improving Nutrition Programmes. An assessment tool for action Revised Edition. FAO, Rome, 2005, 91pp Suraiya Ismail, Maarten Immink and Guy Nantel > User's Training Manual. FAO, Rome, 2006, 81pp > En Español: Mejora de los Programas de Nutrición - un instrumento de análisis para la acción