Presentation to open the AIFSC-ILRI Nutrition Workshop

1. Australian International Food Security Centre
Mellissa Wood, Director
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2. AIFSC
Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for
food security
• CHOGM initiative
• Bridging research and
development – ‘blur’
• African office
• Initially A$33 million over
4 years
• Delivered using
partnerships
• Focus on food
production, access and
utilization challenges
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3. Impact Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food
Increased food Increased income Improved nutrition Improved access Increased
Outcomes
production and diversity in to knowledge institutional and
diets individual capacity
Greater Better Better Increased Innovations in Critical mass
Outputs of
access to market informed and access to more information trained to address
interventions
agricultural access and supported nutritious and and knowledge food security
for smallholder female
innovations returns, and policy safe food and delivery and issues, enduring
and male farmers and
stronger development less post facilitated institutional
other poor households
value chains harvest waste partnerships partnerships
Focus of interventions Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security
Sustainable Markets, value Food nutrition Communica- Education,
and productive chains and and safety tions and training and
Program themes
farming social systems knowledge capacity
systems management building
(research) (capacity building)
D Broad platform “Food security” = availability, access and utilisation
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop
Policy frameworks MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks
ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012

4. Impact Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food
Increased food Increased income Improved nutrition Improved access Increased
Outcomes
production and diversity in to knowledge institutional and
diets individual capacity
Greater Better Better Increased Innovations in Critical mass
Outputs of
access to market informed and access to more information trained to address
interventions
agricultural access and supported nutritious and and knowledge food security
for smallholder female
innovations returns, and policy safe food and delivery and issues, enduring
and male farmers and
stronger development less post facilitated institutional
other poor households
value chains harvest waste partnerships partnerships
Focus of interventions Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security
Sustainable Markets, value Food nutrition Communica- Education,
and productive chains and and safety tions and training and
Program themes
farming social systems knowledge capacity
systems management building
(research) (capacity building)
D Broad platform “Food security” = availability, access and utilisation
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop
Policy frameworks MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks
ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012

5. Current activities Drought tolerant
sorghum
Review of ACIAR’s Evergreen Adoption Small-scale
projects in Africa – Agriculture Pathways mechanisation Landcare for
impacts and $5.5million $3 million $4 million Food Security
adoption (+ $1.8 million) (+ $2.3 million)
(+ $2 million)
4 years 4 years 4 years Vegetable-
Understanding Ethiopia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Uganda, Ethiopia, based
farming Rwanda, Burundi Tanzania, Malawi, Tanzania, Malawi,
Mozambique Mozambique, farming
systems Zimbabwe
Foresight for food Family
security
poultry and
Blue water use crops
Primary impact Sustainable and Markets, Food
Secondary impact productive value chains nutrition
project farming systems & social and safety
systems
scope
study
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6. SSA has a 0 – 0.24 probability of
meeting MDG 1 target
(underweight children)
Source: Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M Finucane, Christopher J Paciorek, Seth R Flaxman, Richard A White, Abigail J Donner, Majid Ezzati,
on behalf of Nutrition Impact Model Study Group (Child Growth). Lancet July 5,2012, taken from IDS presentation.
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7. Effective nutrition action requires coherence and critical mass –
from all sectors
Agriculture
Sufficient food Social
production, Protection
Sufficient food Poverty
Education access, reduction
Keep girls in Diet diversity,
secondary Gender Social
school to delay practices
Direct
age at first Food prep’n,
Nutrition
pregnancy Interventions intra-
household
Health systems distribution,
View nutrition as Water and Preferences,
lower in Sanitation Gender
hierarchy—embed Focus on
direct nutrition nutrition status
programmes outcomes
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8. Objectives for the workshop
To identify:
• research gaps in terms of food security,
agriculture and nutrition in line with the
AIFSC strategy and African priorities
• how the AIFSC could best complement
work being undertaken by partners in
target countries and where we should
invest.
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9. Objectives for the workshop (cont)
Day 1 – knowledge sharing and review
Population nutritional indicators and status
Drivers and foresight
Activities and actors
Day 2 – developing a framework for
priority AIFSC investment
Analytical and transparent
Acknowledging complexity, current activities
Boundaries – firm and flexible
Time
Partners
Strategic priority setting
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10. Thank you
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11. Vegetable scoping study
• AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is
coordinating a preliminary study to improve income
and nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa by
enhancing vegetable based farming and food
systems
• understand the characteristics of vegetable
production systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
(ESA), specifically in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique
and Tanzania, in order to develop appropriate and
effective technological interventions which can
maximize returns, generate and increase income to
reduce poverty, and contribute to greater food and
nutritional security.
• The specific objectives were to:
– analyze the poverty and food insecurity reduction
potential of vegetable production in urban, peri-urban
and rural agriculture;
– identify action-research topics with high potential for
providing practical and policy advice on to how to
promote vegetable production as a poverty and food
insecurity reduction strategy;
– identify research partners to implement these
activities and establish the best combination of action-
research topics and partners within a coherent
research project
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12. Poultry project
• Assoc. Prof. Robyn Alders involved for over
20 yrs
• Thermo-tolerant vaccine produced (ACIAR $)
and distributed over several African
countries (AusAID $)
• Sustainable system for vaccine production
and coordinated distribution – vaccination
and evaluation every 4 months
• 70-80% protection of flock against disease
• Assessing poultry and crop value chains:
o strategic linkages to improve efficiency of
both chains?
o ↑ poultry production/trade through
supplementary feeding from crops?
o ↑’d efficiency of poultry production
contribute to ecologically sustainable ag and
food security?
o ↑ human nutrition
o specialists in human health & nutrition,
animal health, value chains, gender/social
issues
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