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AGRICULTURE FOR NUTRITION AND HEALTH CONFERENCE

From 24-28 June 2019, the 2019 Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (ANH) Conference will be held in Hyderabad, India . The conference involves learning labs where conference participants are taken through topical research analytical tools such as building implementation science for ANH; system dynamics in researching markets for nutrition; economic evaluation of multisectoral interventions; and Choice experiments for measuring intra-household dynamics and bargaining power, among others.

The conference also involves the dissemination of contributed research papers under the agriculture, nutrition and health themes. In this regard, three AERC-supported researchers, namely Josiah Ateka (Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Kenya), Rebecca Kiwanuka Lubinda (University of Zambia) and Stephen Thornhill (University College Cork, Ireland) will be presenting research papers supported by the AERC-Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Agricultural Policy Analysis for Nutrition Outcomes (AFPON) project. The titles of the presentations are as follows:

• Impact of Women Empowerment Policies on Nutrition Outcomes in Kenya;
• Impact of Input Subsidies on Household Food Availability in Rural Zambia: A Gendered Perspective;
• The Nutrient Deficit Score: A better way of linking food and nutrition security

The ANH conference will bring together the community of researchers and users of research (practitioners and policymakers) working at the intersection of agriculture, nutrition and health.The objective of the  conference is to foster knowledge exchange, innovation and learning around ANH research. Follow more on the conference at #ANH2019.

The AFPON project is part of our CMAAE programme which builds capacity to conduct policy research in agricultural and applied economics to address food security, agricultural productivity and environmental management.