Building climate-sensitive nutrition programmes

Seasonality, climate components of development.19 variability (including extreme events) and climate change can A systems approach is needed to capture the potential disrupt food production and have a broad effect on the food magnitude of the influence of the climate on food systems. [...] The high temporal resolution of the data from the Bangladesh Nutrition Surveillance Project (now the Food Security and Nutrition Surveillance Project) makes it possible to investigate the relationships between climate and nutrition across time. [...] However, affect the transmission of infectious and the climate to improve the effectiveness subsequent discussions revealed a lack vector-borne diseases.29–33 The contami- of nutrition programmes? [...] If affected by changes in the frequency of studies on nutritional vulnerabilities the lag is too short to enable sufficient extreme events and in the timing of the seldom differentiate the effects of cli- time to intervene, forecasts – if skilful seasons. [...] Climate forecasts, data and responsible for the lack of diversity or ate times of the year and in locations knowledge can be communicated using whether the season in which an anomaly representative of the regional climate.