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SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
Line of research aimed at a) improving natural resource management and adaptation to climate change, including by greening our response and b) improving and strengthening data and information for nutritional risk characterisation, warning and early action systems.
We do research to protect the future.
Aiming to accelerate and enable the design and implementation of essential actions that put prevention and resilience at the centre to protect communities, households and children from undernutrition.
PRIORITIES
- For natural resource management and climate change adaptation
- Understand the barriers to adopting improved agricultural practices for climate change adaptation and increase livelihood resilience.
- Identify context-specific vulnerabilities and enabling factors that strengthen health, food, protection and water, hygiene and sanitation systems for nutrition protection.
- Support the development of effective climate information for the transition to more climate-smart production systems and climate-resilient livelihood strategies.
- For prevention and anticipation
- Identify the minimum set of interventions and their cost-effectiveness to effectively prevent malnutrition.
- Improve and strengthen data and information for nutritional risk characterisation, early warning and early action systems. Assess the contribution of artificial intelligence and new technologies to overcome constraints in the field.
- Understand the barriers to behavioural change and socio-economic factors that influence hygiene and nutrition practices of infants, children, adolescents and women at the community level.
- Demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of minimum preventive packages of nutrition-sensitive actions to be implemented systematically alongside nutritional treatment.
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PROJECTS
- Sahel GIS. Real-time information on available pastures via satellite tracking.
- Greening humanitarian response. Measurement of energy needs and advice on how to meet them with renewable energies.
