Challenges and Success in Linking Agriculture and Nutrition - Marie Ruel, IFPRI
1. Challenges and Successes in Linking Agriculture and Nutrition Marie Ruel, Director, Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI
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3. Conceptual framework (80’s) Food availability Food access HH choices and use Individual utilization Nutritional Status (PEM) D E T E R M I N A N T S P O L I C I E S Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010
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6. Determinants of Nutrition Adapted from UNICEF 1990 Breastfeeding Complementary feeding Vitamin A Zinc Hygiene INSTITUTIONS POLITICAL & IDEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK ECONOMIC STRUCTURE RESOURCES ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE Food/nutrient intake Health Water/ Sanitation health services Interventions Immediate causes Underlying causes Basic causes - Agriculture - Poverty Reduction - Education - Health Systems Strengthening - Income generation - Women’s empowerment Maternal and child-care practices Access to food
11. Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010 Project Model (Mozambique )
12. Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010 Impact on Intake of OFSP (6-35 mo old)
13. Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010 Impact on Vitamin A intake (6-35 mo old)
14. Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010 Hellen Keller International Experience Source: Spielman & Pandya-Lorch, Millions Fed, IFPRI 2009
15. Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010 Hellen Keller International Experience Source: Spielman & Pandya-Lorch, Millions Fed, IFPRI 2009
16. What Have We Learned? Building an Integrated Agriculture and health Agenda, London, June 23, 2010
Nutritional Consequences of Agricultural Projects (Pinstrup-Anderson 1981) International Agricultural Research and Human Nutrition ( Pinstrup-Anderson, Berg and Forman 1984 ) IFPRI/ACC/SCN [FAO: Integrating nutrition into agriculture/rural development projects] ACC/SCN, etc.
Impact of ag on nurition
doubling of income in Kenya and Philippines 4-7% energy intake of preschoolers Linkages Ag/Nutrition and policy implications (Kennedy and Bouis, 1993-94) Agriculture commercialization, economic development and nutrition ( Von Braun and Kennedy 1994) Export crop production and human nutrition (Pinstrup-Andersen and Biswas 1995)
Access to right quantity/quality/stability of food We need to do more than the blue circle
Workshop IFPRI/IRRI on “Improving human nutrition through agricultural research” –1999 Projects (e.g. the Agriculture Nutrition Advantage Project (TANA) (USAID-funded; T. Benson) Joint project with ICRW to promote greater investment in gender-focused strategies that link agriculture and nutrition, and create a policy dialogue around linked strategies Launch and rapid growth of Harvest Plus: Breeding crops for better nutrition (Challenge Program) (H. Bouis) Uses agriculture as a public health intervention Focuses on hard-to-reach populations in sustainable way, at low cost Multi-disciplinary alliance of institutions: North/South, public/private/NGO, with the CGIAR at the nexus
Research on “Diet Changes and Diet Quality of the Poor” Focuses on the diet, nutrition and health transitions – which result from economic growth, globalization, urbanization, changes in lifestyle Focuses on how food and agriculture policies can help re-direct the transition – by affecting incentives to produce specific foods, which in turn affect the environment in which people make food choices
Iron from biofortified rice increased daily iron intake by 20%; increased % women who met requirements (from 50-70%) - Increased access; created demand; ensured sustained adoption through market development
Unprecedented commitment (?) NEED TO LEVERAGE AGRICULTURE FOR IMPROVING NUTRITION & hEALTH
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WHY THIS MP? Agriculture intensification plays an important role in emerging diseases, most of which from livestock, which are of increasing global and regional concern. Agriculture affects health Health affects agriculture Poverty is entwined with both….as is nutrition … but the two sectors do not communicate Potential “win-win” solutions to shared problems Globalization, food & fuel price volatility, emerging disease, environmental degradation, climate change raises urgency
Unprecedented commitment (?) NEED TO LEVERAGE AGRICULTURE FOR IMPROVING NUTRITION & hEALTH
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