Field Exchange Issue 67

ENN's 67^th edition of Field Exchange includes a special sub-section exploring the relationship between wasting and stunting and the work of the Wasting and Stunting (WaSt) Technical Interest Group (TIG), coordinated by ENN.

In this issue, we pay tribute to Dr Ferew Lemma who was a great friend and colleague of ENN. We feature his obituary at the start of the issue and encourage readers to learn about his work across a respected and extensive career in Public Health. This edition features a rich set of contributions across a range of themes including among others, data, information systems and assessment and a broad selection of countries including Cambodia, Venezuela, India and Zimbabwe. As usual, there are field articles that describe programming experiences in the nutrition sector, as well as the latest research articles, summaries and snapshots, report summaries of recently published reports and guidelines, news pieces and finally a series of views pieces from key experts, including a pertinent piece on food and infant formula milk marketing.

Our special section on the relationship between wasting and stunting includes its own editorial written by Tanya Khara, Abigail Perry and Carmel Dolan who have been engaged with the project since its inception in 2014.  The section includes articles from Indonesia, Sudan and Somalia illustrating country experiences of trying to bring together approaches to wasting and stunting as well as a broad range of research articles exploring this topic. We also feature a views piece from USAID's Erin Boyd who shares the donor's experience in achieving impacts on both wasting and stunting through more integrated approaches.