Project Documents
Project Outcome Leaflets
- Outcome 1 – Governance & Systems
Apr2024 - Outcome 3 – Knowledge & Demand
Social Behaviour Change Campaign Rwanda, Jun2023 - Outcome 4 – Policy, Learning & Scale-up Apr2024
- How is climate change threatening the livelihoods of small farming households in secondary cities – the case of Rusizi, Rwanda Dec2023
Project Tools
Scientific Publications
- Nutrition transition, double burden of malnutrition, and urbanization patterns in secondary cities of Bangladesh, Kenya and Rwanda (BMC Nutrition, 04Nov2023)
- The potential of digital tools to foster production, and thus availability, of healthy diets for city dwellers in secondary cities (E3S Web of Conferences, 21Aug2023; https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202341805001)
- Protocol of the NICE project: Protocol of a multi-sectoral development project to improve food and nutrition security of secondary city populations in Bangladesh, Kenya and Rwanda (Frontiers in Public Health, 02Feb2023)
- Secondary Cities as Catalysts for Nutritious Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation, 02Jan2023, pp 305-316)
- Nutrition as a driver and outcome of agroecology (Nature Food, 05Dec2022)
- UN Food Systems Summit Brief: Secondary Cities as Catalysts for Nutritious Diets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (UN Food Systems Summit 2021 – Scientific Group, Apr2021)
Published Abstracts
- Agroecological Inherence of Coffee Agroecosystems and Their Impact on Sustainable Production (Book of Abstracts 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference 2023, p 77)
- Farm resilience assessment using FAO’s adapted SHARP+ tool in Busia County, Kenya (Book of Abstracts 1st Eastern Africa Agroecology Conference 2023, p 38)
- Determinants for Purchasing, Preparing, Consuming, and Feeding Practices Among Women of Reproductive Age With Low Socioeconomic Status in Two Secondary Cities in Rwanda (Supplement to Current Developments in Nutrition, 2022, Volume 6)
Media Articles
- NICE Project reflects on its efforts to increase inclusivity for women in nutrition space as we mark International Women’s Day; The East African, 12Mar2024
- Advocating to close the micronutrient gap in secondary cities – NICE’s contribution to the Micronutrient Forum 2023; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Dec2023
- “Tuelimike” campaign raises awareness of healthy diets in Kenya; SDC Health Newsletter °32 – Autumn 2023
- Leveraging the potential of secondary cities; Article in the Rural21 online edition of 09Oct2023
- Improving household diets and family income in Bangladesh; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Sep2023
- Small grants schemes to empower self-assistance ideas from women and youth groups contributing to improved production and healthier diets; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Jul2023
- Strengthening smallholder farming by accelerating market development and innovation delivery; The East African, 16Jun2023
- NICE Peer Learning Week in Kenya: Urban food systems in action; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Mar2023
- Facilitating agroecological transition in the NICE cities; Article in the Rural21 online edition of 20Oct2022
- Facilitating agroecological transition in the NICE project; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Oct2022
- Nutrition clubs – experience from the NICE project in Bangladesh; SDC Health Newsletter °28 – Summer 2022
- Multisectoral food systems platforms in Rwanda; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Jun2022
- Reflecting on the Farmers survey pilot in Buisa, Kenya; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Mar2022
- SDC’s Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) Project gets underway; SDC Health Newsletter °26 – Winter 2022
- SDC’s Nutrition in City Ecosystems (NICE) project gets underway; SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Newsletter Dec2021