Projects - prof.dr.ir. ID (Inge) Brouwer
Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food system Transformation (SHiFT) - OneCGIAR Initiative (2022-2024)
Sustainable Healthy Diets Through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) aiming to identify transformative innovations and policies, and strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to guide decision-making toward food system transformations that support and enable consumption of sustainable healthy diets for all, while improving livelihoods, income, gender equity, and social inclusiveness.
Increasing fruit and vegetable intake of low-income populations in Vietnam and Nigeria through food system innovations (2018-2021) BMGF
Overall Principle Investigator of the reseach programme, in collaboration with CIAT, Bioversity International, IFPRI and University of Ibandan (Nigeria) and National Nutrition Institute (NIN), Hanoi Medical School and Rikolto (Vietnam). The project is acrried out inrial, peri-urban and urban areas and consists of 3 interelated demand-side interventions addressing accessibility, affordabilityand acceptability of fruits and vegetables.
Food systems for healthier diets, Flagship research programme within CRP A4NH, CGIAR (2017 – 2021)
Flagship Leader responsible for the coordination of the research programme carried out in 4 focus countries (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Vietnam) in collaboration with 5 CGIAR institutes.
Improved nutrition through staple food crops in Sub-Saharan Africa (INSTAPA) (2008 – 2013) EU FP7
Overall coordinator of the research programme comprising 7 workpackages. Co-supervisor of a randomized controlled trial studying the effect of daily consumption of biofortified yellow cassava on vitamin A status and immune function of Kenyan school children in one of the workpackages.
FONIO (2007-2012) EU-FP6
Leader of nutrition workpackage on upgrading quality and competitiveness of fonio for improved livelihoods in West-Africa
TELFUN (2007 - 2010) INREF – Wageningen University
Leader of nutrition workpackage on tailoring food sciences to endogenous patterns of local food suply for future nutrition in India, Equador and Ghana.
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Sustainable food system transitions in Vietnam
Sustainable food system transitions in Vietnam - WUR Project Sustainable food system transitions in Vietnam A PhD Research by ? Research introduction... -
Food-based dietary guidelines in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is the second populated country in Africa suffering from different forms of malnutrition and diet-related diseases: acute and chronic... -
Fruit and vegetable intake in Vietnam en Nigeria
Low fruit and vegetable consumption is one of the causes of poor quality diet in low- and middle income countries and its negative effect on... -
Ten2Twenty: adolescent nutrition
Adolescents make up twelve per cent of the population in industrialised countries, compared with nineteen per cent in low- and middle-income... -
Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
The CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, or A4NH, led by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), helps... -
Understanding the Social Determinants driving Infant and Yound Child Feeding among Rwandan Households (COMPLETED)
The project is part of the interdisciplinary GORILLA birth cohort study on biological and social determinants of child growth in the Muhanga district,... -
Nutritional status of breast cancer patients during and after chemotherapy in Nairobi, Kenya
Cancer is recognized as an increasing problem in several countries in Africa. Yet, the number of studies on cancer in African countries is low, while... -
Agriculture and nutrition: linkages and drivers of smallholder farming households in Ghana and Kenya
The majority of the undernourished population in the world live in rural households in developing countries. Farming is the mainstay of many of these... -
INSTAPA - Novel staple food-based strategies to improve micronutrient status for better health and development in sub-Saharan Africa
Identify novel staple food-based approaches to improve micronutrient malnutrition for better health and development of women and children in... -
Yellow cassava: Efficacy of provitamin A rich cassava on improvement of vitamin A status in Kenyan schoolchildren
Cassava is the staple food in most West African countries including Nigeria, where vitamin A deficiency is common. Except for delivering energy in the...