Nutrition-Sensitive Agroecology Intervention Paper Featured in Science Editors' Choice

Rachel Bezner Kerr’s paper on nutrition-sensitive agroecology interventions in rural Tanzania, which she co-authored with eight others, was profiled in Science magazine’s editors choice in June 2021. The intervention study selected “mentor farmers” from each intervention village to share agroecological learning about legume intensification, nutrition, and women’s empowerment with other intervention households. After two growing seasons, the intervention significantly improved children’s dietary diversity, reduced household food insecurity, improved women's empowerment and well-being, and improved agricultural sustainability. The profile of the paper published on Science’s editors’ choice page can be found here. The paper, published in Journal of Nutrition in July 2021, can be found here.