ReviewMaternal & child nutrition2017
First foods: Why improving young children's diets matter.
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- The effect of interventions distributing home fortification products on infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices: A systematic narrative review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Complementary Feeding Practices for South Asian Young Children Living in High-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- Integrated approaches to improve the nutritional status of children under five: a positive deviance hearth model in Bomet county, Kenya.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Exploring Multiple Barriers to Proper Child Feeding Practices in Rural Districts of Ethiopia.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Concordance in dietary intake among caregivers and infants during the period of complementary feeding: A scoping review.Appetite · 2024Article
- Maternal socio-economic status determines animal source food consumption of children aged 6-23 months in East African countries: a multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear model.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Dietary diversity and associated factors among infants and young children in three West African countries.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Effect of enhanced nutrition services with community-based nutrition services on the diet quality of young children in Ethiopia.Maternal & child nutrition · 2023Article
- Early initiation of breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and experiencing feeding challenges are associated with malnutrition.Food science & nutrition · 2023Article
- Minimum dietary diversity and consumption of ultra-processed foods among Brazilian children 6-23 months of age.Cadernos de saude publica · 2023Article
- Magnitude and determinants of animal source food consumption among children aged 6-23 months in Ethiopia: secondary analysis of the 2016 Ethiopian demographic and health survey.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Marketing of commercial foods for infant and young children in Uruguay: sugary products, health cues on packages and fun social products on Facebook.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Current Knowledge Base of Beverage Health Impacts, Trends, and Intake Recommendations for Children and Adolescents: Implications for Public Health.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
- Complementary feeding practices and associated factors of dietary diversity among uncomplicated severe acute malnourished children aged 6-23 months in Burkina Faso.Maternal & child nutrition · 2021Article
- Global Trends and Future Prospects of Child Nutrition: A Bibliometric Analysis of Highly Cited Papers.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Review
- Maternal Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Complementary Feeding and Child Undernutrition in the Vakinankaratra Region of Madagascar: A Mixed-Methods Study.Current developments in nutrition · 2020Article
- Determinants of age-appropriate breastfeeding, dietary diversity, and consumption of animal source foods among Indonesian children.Maternal & child nutrition · 2020Article
- Nutritional counselling interactions between health workers and caregivers of children under two years: observations at selected child welfare clinics in Ghana.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Dissimilarities across age groups in the associations between complementary feeding practices and child growth: Evidence from rural Togo.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
Globally, only 52% of children aged 6-23 months meet the minimum meal frequency and a mere 29% meet the minimum dietary diversity, with large disparities across and within regions. With most of the stunting occurring during the first thousand days-from conception to age 2 years-improving complementary feeding in children 6-23 months old is an urgent priority. With this evidence in mind, UNICEF collaborated with the governments of India and Maharashtra to convene a global meeting in Mumbai, India, under the theme: First Foods: A Global Meeting to Accelerate Progress on Complementary Feeding in Young Children (November 17-18, 2015). The global meeting provided a platform that aimed to (a) synthesize the biological and implementation science on complementary feeding; (b) review the practice and experience in improving access to nutritious complementary foods and good complementary feeding practices; and (c) consolidate a strong evidence base that can inform the development of strategies and approaches to improve complementary feeding that are fit to context. This overview paper summarizes the rationale on why improving complementary foods and feeding for infants and young children matters and what it takes to improve them. It builds on the papers presented at the First Foods Global Meeting and those commissioned as a follow on to it.
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