DfID report examines agriculture for nutrition projects, makes recommendations for researchers

A recently released report (.pdf) commissioned by the U.K. Department for International Development (DfID) examines research projects on agriculture for nutrition and "reveals eight gaps that are currently being neglected, including specific target groups -- particularly rural workers and non-rural populations -- as well as a lack of methodologies to guide research in the field," SciDev.Net reports (Piotrowski, 9/13). "With new initiatives announced at the U.K. hunger summit in August, and the new global target to reduce the number of stunted children by 40 percent by 2025 declared by the U.N.'s World Health Assembly, DfaID commissioned this new report to identify poorly researched areas in the newly invigorated fight against malnutrition," according to a DfID press release. "In its conclusion the authors suggest methods for tackling these gaps, laying out several steps which can be taken towards establishing more complete research pathways," including the establishment of a network of researchers to improve communication, the press release notes (8/29).