“Nutrition as a Driver and Outcome of Agroecology”; we are extremly honoured that our respective article has just been published in Nature Food. In this article, the NICE agroecology Research Team looked into the 13 principles of agroecology proposed by the high-level panel of experts on food security and nutrition and analyzed their connection with …
Watch the NICE image film produced by Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture Kenya for World Food Day 2022: https://youtu.be/9ooc3wYcRJY
On 22Oct2022 our NICE country team in Bangladesh organized a high-level roundtable on national and regional nutrition policies in Bangladesh, together with the local newspaper The Business Standard. Under the topic of Creating nutrition vital cities: Role of multisectoral platforms, national government representatives, UN representatives and NGO and private sector representatives emphasized the need for …
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As in 2021, the NICE project has also been featured at ETH Zurich’s Food Day 2022 11 November 2022 by a poster entitled: A participatory journey to select nutritious value chains for implementing agroecological interventions in the Nutrition in City Ecosystems Project in Kenya. As a public research symposium, ETH Zurich’s Food Day highlights research …
NICE has been showcased in FAO in Geneva’s Nutrition Dialogue Series on Urban Food Systems for better diets: Latest evidence from the field, held virtually on 21 June 2022 from 11:00 – 12:30 CEST. FAO in Geneva Nutrition Dialogue Series underlines latest developments on Urban Food Systems for better diets | FAO in Geneva | Food and Agriculture …
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The determinants for food purchase decisions, food preparation habits and food consumption patterns among families of women of reproductive age with low socioeconomic status living in the two Rwandan NICE cities Rubavu and Rusizi have been presented in a poster at the American Society for Nutrition’s NUTRITION summit 14-16 June 2022. Learn more about our …
Strengthening the supply and demand for nutritious, local, agroecologically produced foods in the NICE cities in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Rwanda have been the topic of a poster presented at the Geneva Health Forum 3-5 May 2022.
The NICE project has been showcased as an example from the nutrition sector at the Private Sector Mechanism Gender Roundtable on Business Accelerating Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment in Food System arranged by the International Agri-Food Network (IAFN) and the Private Sector Mechanism of the Committee on World Food Security, hold virtually on …
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A first impression on the nutritional status of populations in the NICE cities Dinajpur and Rangpur (Bangladesh), Bungoma and Busia (Kenya), and Rubavu and Rusizi (Rwanda) and the NICE project’s intentions to strengthen the supply and demand for local, agroecologically-produced, nutritions foods have been given at ETH Food Day 2021 05 November 2021, where our …