Beyond the drinking glass: expanding our understanding of water-nutrition linkages

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2017

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Feild Exchange

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Water access and management play central roles in determining nutritional outcomes. Water-for-nutrition is most often approached from a WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) perspective, where the aim is to improve water quality and practices for domestic water supply, thus reducing the burden of water-related diseases in a population. A WASH focus for improving nutritional outcomes is especially pertinent, given recent evidence highlighting the role of diarrhoeal disease and environmental enteropathy in determining child stunting. However, there are a number of water-nutrition pathways in addition to WASH that would benefit from greater attention in research and discussion. A session aimed at expanding our understanding of water-nutrition linkages was organised during the 2016 Stockholm World Water Week (26 August to 5 September, 2016). The session was organised by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, USAID, and Texas A&M University.

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Nutrition

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Mekonnen, D. K. (2017). Beyond the drinking glass: expanding our understanding of water-nutrition linkages. Field Exchange, 54, N/A. https://www.ifpri.org/publication/beyond-drinking-glass-expanding-our-understanding-water-nutrition-linkages