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Nutrition & Agriculture Linkages

Nutrition & Agriculture Linkages. The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development Annual Conference June 5 th 2012 Sally Abbott USAID/Washington. GHI/FTF Nutrition Goal.

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Nutrition & Agriculture Linkages

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  1. Nutrition & Agriculture Linkages The Association for International Agriculture and Rural Development Annual Conference June 5th 2012 Sally Abbott USAID/Washington

  2. GHI/FTF Nutrition Goal • Our goal is to reduce child undernutrition by 20-30% in focus countries, measured by any one of four core indicators • Underweight (MDG 1c) • Stunting • Child Anemia • Maternal Anemia

  3. Global Health Initiative Principles Feed the Future Principles: Promote women, girls and gender equality focus Encourage country ownership/leadership Strengthen health system and program sustainability Leverage and strengthen key multilateral organizations, global health partnerships and the private sector Foster strategic coordination and integration Improve metrics, monitoring and evaluation Promote research and innovation Invest in country-owned plans that support results-based programs Strengthen strategic coordination – globally, regionally, and locally Ensure a comprehensive approach – advancing agriculture-led growth, reducing under-nutrition, and increasing impacts of humanitarian food assistance Leverage the benefits of multilateral institutions; Deliver on sustained and accountable commitments Country-specific nutrition programs

  4. Evolution of USAID Nutrition Approach 1. Type of interventions 2. Age target 3. Measurement 4. Focus 5. Delivery systems 6. Scale Vertical, supplementation Under fives Nutrient-specific Treatment Health Pilot Integrated, food-based 1,000 days Diet quality and diversity +Prevention +Agriculture, social protection National 1 2 3 4 5 6 With these new approaches we aim for a 30% reduction in undernutrition

  5. Health systems aloneare not enough FTF GHI Agriculture and economic growth alone are not enough Rice value chainsCommunity gardensAgriculture extension workers Micronutrient supplementsPlumpyNutIMCI

  6. Determinants of nutrition NUTRITION Food/nutrientintake Health Maternal and child care practices Access to food Water, sanitation, and health services Revised Source: Ruel, SCN News 2008

  7. What is USAID doing to link Agriculture and Nutrition? Feed the Future Global Health Initiative Nutrition Agriculture Programs Health Services Improved nutrition-related behaviors Improved access to diverse and quality foods Improved utilization of maternal and child health and nutrition services including hygiene 7

  8. Improved nutritional value of key crops Ways to improve nutrition through Agriculture Increased dietary intake of nutritious foods Improved AG/N Linkages Improved Nutrition Increased agricultural income Improved nutrition knowledge and practices Other interventions (wat/san, health, etc) Improved policy coordination

  9. Improved Nutritional Value of Key Crops • Fortification: meet micronutrient inadequacy • i.e. wheat flour with iron, Salt with iodine, etc. • Biofortification: breed (naturally and genetically) higher levels of micronutrients into staple foods • i.e. orange fleshed sweet potato, zinc in wheat flour, iron in beans • Post Harvest Processing and Storage • i.e. drying, fermenting, storage to reduce aflatoxin levels, etc. 9

  10. Market demand Processors/ traders Producer organizations Producers/ farmers Input suppliers Other Improved nutrition knowledge and practices Improved Nutritional Value of Key Crops Enabling better nutrition through the value chain approach Value chain model illustrative examples • Develop communication strategies that promote Essential Nutrition Actions & create demand for fortified and diverse local foods- communication • Increased production linked to school feeding programs- community • Elimination of lean season via improved processing and storage- community • Link processors and traders to regional food aid programs- clinical & community • Access to credit/financing for off-farm income-generating activities like artisanal fortification of local cereals & salt iodization- community • Transfer commercial farm skills to household gardens to increase food diversity- community • Use income to diversify food-basket- community • Invest in small ruminants for income and/or dietary supplements- community • Ensure that information used in decision making for crops to plant and household purchases reflect commercial farm and nutrition consideration- community • Advance a policy framework for the safe, sustainable production of commercially fortified cooking oil and soft wheat flour- policy 10

  11. How will we measure progress? Advancing sound M&E Minimum acceptable diet: A summary indicator that measures the proportion of children 6-23 m who are receiving a minimally acceptable diet in terms of quality (i.e. micronutrient adequacy) andquantity(i.e. energy requirement) Women’s dietary diversity: A simple food group diversity indicator that provides a proxy measure of the micronutrient adequacy of women’s diets Household hunger scale:A culturally invariant 3 question scale to assess the proportion of households experiencing food deprivation

  12. Additional Multi-sectoral Efforts to Address Undernutrition • Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (NCRSP) • Scaling-Up Nutrition • Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP)

  13. Nutrition Collaborative Research Support Program (NCRSP) Aim:To determine which investments in agriculture-based strategies, policies, and health can be used to achieve: • Large-scale, sustainable improvements in nutritional outcomes • Improvement in dietary diversity, dietary quality, and improved infant and young child feeding • Improved community capacity to combat undernutrition Partners: • Lead: Tufts University • USAID/Uganda • USAID/Nepal

  14. USAID is part of a multilateral partnership to scale up nutrition • WHAT IT IS: • Over 100 of our development partners involved (civil society, private sector, UN, donors) • Coordination of these partners to encourage synergy of purpose and ensure complementarity of action based on countries’ requests • WHY WE ARE INVOLVED: • GHI/FTF principles are aligned with SUN • Increases our leverage and alignment with partners • Provides concrete milestones to measure progress on scaling up nutrition • Facilitates high-level dialogue/advocacy on nutrition in countries that can drive policies and programs • Provides a barometer for country ownership: political leadership, inclusivity of process, country budgetary commitments

  15. Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) • African leaders endorsed CAADP in 2003 as plan of action to put agriculture back onto development agenda. • Leaders committed to : • increasing public investment in agriculture to at least 10% of national budgets • achieving 6% annual growth rate in agriculture • CAADP comprised of four interlinking pillars • Pillar I: Land management and water control systems • Pillar II: Rural infrastructure and market access • Pillar III: Food supply, hunger, and food emergency crises • Pillar IV: Agricultural research and technology

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