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Welthungerhilfe Fact Sheet: Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture:
USAID: In-depth webinar about nutrition-sensitive agriculture including the different pathways that link nutrition and agriculture in webinar: http://agrilinks.org/training/nutrition-sensitive-agriculture
FAO: Key recommendations for improving nutrition through agriculture and food systems: http://unscn.org/files/Agriculture-Nutrition-CoP/Agriculture-Nutrition_Key_recommendations.pdf FAO: Synthesis of Guiding Principles on Agricultural Programming for Nutrition: http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq194e/aq194e.pdf
Feed the Future: Improving Nutrition Through Agriculture Technical Brief: Understanding and Applying Primary Pathways and Principles: https://www.spring-nutrition.org/sites/default/files/publications/briefs/spring_understandingpathways_brief_1_0.pdf
Gfras: The Integration of Nutrition within Extension and Advisory Services:
SUN: The contribution of Agriculture and Social Protection to Improving Nutrition:
DFID/ Worldbank: improving nutrition through multi-sectorial approaches: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org
IFAD: Improving nutrition through agriculture: www.ifad.org/knotes/scaling_up/sun_nutrition.pdf
ODI: Smallholder agriculture’s contribution to better nutrition: http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8283.pdf |
C. Priority areas in nutrition-sensitive agriculture?
According to DFIS/WB, these are the priority areas to intervene when promoting nutrition sensitive agriculture:
- Invest in women: safeguard and strengthen the capacity of women to provide for the food security, health, and sound nutrition of their families.
- Increase access to year-round availability of high-nutrient content food.
- Improve nutrition knowledge among rural households to enhance dietary diversity.
- Incorporate explicit nutrition objectives and indicators into agriculture investments.
As a means to reach and positively impact rural populations over time, one important priority area to intervene in nutrition sensitive agriculture relates to biofortification (see figure below). Through variety selection and breeding, biofortification aims to increase the nutrition content of relevant food crops whose consumption will then help reduce malnutrition. For instance, the introduction and promotion of orange flesh sweet potato varieties in Sub-Saharan Africa has reduced the Vitamin A deficiency of people, as these varieties contain higher level of Vitamin A than the conventional white fleshed varieties. Both conventional and GMO techniques are used in biofortification programs. Yet, the use of GMO to increase the nutritional value of crops is being perceived as controversial among experts.
Practical experiences on nutrition-sensitive agriculture:
Videos about experiences relating to nutrition-sensitive agriculture:
Bangladesh: Small fish big gains:
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