Welcome to the Tanzania page of the AgriDiet project. This section contains information on the various Tanzanian activities of the project, including the field research in the local sites. This part of the website will be updated by the PhD researchers and supervisors conducting their fieldwork in each location.
Information on each locality will be posted once the sites have been selected. Field updates, including progress reports and pictures will be made available throughout the course of the project.
Undernutrition among HIV-positive children can be ameliorated if they are given adequate foods in the right frequency and diversity. Food insecurity is known to undermine such efforts, but even in food rich areas, people have undernutrition. As yet no study has examined feeding practices and their associations with nutrition status among as HIV-positive children in […]
This short document provides a snapshot of the status of nutrition in Tanzania. It provides information on the country context, the costs of undernutrition, nutrition statistics, key actions to address malnutrition and solutions to primary causes of undernutrition.
Our researchers in Ethiopia and Tanzania completed the first stage of the their household survey fieldwork in March and are currently processing the data and analysing results in preparation for the second round starting in July. Initial findings will be posted as soon as they become available. Household surveys being conducted in Tigray, Ethiopia
In November 2013 Mark Williams MP and Cathy Jamieson MP visited nutrition and education programmes in Tanzania, accompanied by staff from RESULTS UK. The aim of the delegation was to assess how Tanzania is addressing major development challenges related to early childhood development including undernutrition and its impact on children’ s ability to learn. This report provides […]
The second round of stakeholder workshops were held in November 2013 in Addis Ababa and Dar Es Salaam. Full details of each can be found in the attached report. Click “Read more” to access the report ….. 2nd Stakeholder Workshop Report Delegates at the second Ethiopian AgriDiet stakeholder workshop held in Addis Ababa, November […]
The 2013 AgriDiet Project Workshop was held at Sokoine University, Morogoro, Tanzania from 20-22 November 2013. The workshop reviewed the first year of activities and early research reports, together with planned outputs The event was kindly hosted by Professor Amon Mattee and Professor Joyce Kinabo of Sokoine University. A report of the workshop is available […]
This AgriDiet Position Paper explores the latest evidence on the relationships between agriculture and nutrition in food-insecure regions. First, it summarises the levels and consequences of undernutrition. Second, it reviews some contextual factors that might affect the relationship between agriculture and nutrition. Third, it reviews the state of the art knowledge on the links between […]
This draft report was prepared for the High Level Meeting on Nutrition at the UN General Assembly in September 2011 and the follow-up workshop for the Scale-Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, which was designed to help nations where people are at risk of under-nutrition and aims to show results within 1,000 days. This report includes the […]
Iron and zinc deficiencies have been associated with delayed motor development in nutritionally at-risk children, albeit inconsistently. In this community-based, randomised double-blind trial, iron and folic acid; zinc; a combination of iron, folic acid and zinc supplements; or a placebo were given daily for one year to 876 nutritionally at-risk children in Pemba, Zanzibar. The […]
Through the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, in 2013 G8 countries are seeking to mobilise the private sector and multi-national corporations to boost African agriculture. This new Future Agricultures / PLAAS briefing (pdf) looks at how African countries are engaging with the New Alliance. The authors argue that large-scale acquisitions of land for […]
