What information can be tracked by Ministry of Agriculture and what are the efforts envisioned moving forward? Karen Mukuka(Mrs)

1. “RESEARCH GAPS FOR FOOD AND
NUTRITION SECURITY UNDER CAADP”.
What information can be tracked by Ministry of Agriculture
and what are the efforts envisioned moving forward?
Karen Mukuka(Mrs)
A Presentation made at the Labadi Beach Conference
Centre, Accra Ghana

2. Presentation Outline
1. Introduction and background on CAADP
2. CAADP strategic focus in Zambia
3. Importance of knowledge, information and System
4. Knowledge, Information and System Flow
5. Knowledge, Information Sources
6. Country level - Way forward
7. Conclusion

3. Introduction and background
CAADP - Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development
Programme.
• Agreement commit at least 10% of the national budgets
to agriculture
• Attain an average growth rate of 6% with the specific aim
of reducing poverty and hunger by 50% by 2015
CAADP aims at achieving and sustaining a higher path of
economic growth through agriculture-led development on
the African continent

4. Strategic Focus for the Zambia CAADP?
According to the Country CAADP Compact, broad
Programmes for implementation under CAADP in
Zambia include:
 Agricultural productivity improvement;
 Sustainable land and water management;
 Agricultural marketing development;
 Agricultural investment promotion;
 Food and nutrition security; and
 Research and extension enhancement.

5. Nutrition Actions at Country level
• SUN- First 1000 MCDP -strengthening and scaling
up selected priority interventions from different
sectors based on global and national evidence of
cost effective interventions and thereby reducing
stunting in children below the age of 2 years.
• Address stunting which is at 40% of children
under 5 years of age being stunted
• Consistency with Zambia NFNSP (2011 to 2015)
and global evidence.
• Complementary and added value to existing
programmes

6. Nutrition actions at country level
• Appropriate targeting,
• Development through consultative processes
and implementation through a sector wide
approach
• Multi-sectoral approach
• 3 ones -one coordinating body, one M and E
system and One nutrition plan

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8. Nutrition Governance in Zambia

9. Importance of knowledge, Information &
System (KIS)
KIS can improve evidence based;
• Planning & programming
• Learning & sharing experiences
• Awareness creation & Advocacy
• Inform policy & enhance performance of agricultural
sector to allow for transformation & contribute to
achieving CAADP goals on Food and Nutrition
Security

10. What knowledge, information does
agriculture track?
 Agricultural production situation (include key indicators
e.g. crop production information etc.)
 Food and nutrition situation security (including key
indicators e.g. food availability, access etc.)
 Food consumption situation (include key indicators e.g.
Household dietary diversity scores etc.)
 Agricultural results and linkages to other sectors(and
key indicators e.g. involvement of agriculture in multi-
sectoral processes)

11. Examples of Agro nutrition indicators
• % of household with a dietary diversity score
above 5.0
• % of women adopting diverse diet during
pregnancy and lactation
• % of households receiving alternative
livelihood(agro based) support aimed at
improving food and nutrition security of
vulnerable households
• % of children under 2 accessing minimum
acceptable diet

12. Knowledge, Information System sources
• Food balance sheet analysis
• Central Statistic Office(CSO)( Ministry of National
planning/Ministry of Agriculture/Fisheries and
Livestock(MoA/FL)
• Data collected - Annually
• Crop forecasting analysis
• CSO/MOA/FL
• Annually
• Food consumption surveys MoA/FL/ NFNC periodically
• Livestock census
• MFL
• Data collected periodically

13. Knowledge, Information System Sources
At country level knowledge, information exists in
 Government ministries- e.g. on production and
consumption information
 Academia and research institutions- e.g. case studies,
surveys
 Farmers organisations- e.g. best practices
 NGO’s and private sector- NGOs and private sector
interventions e.g. fortification levels

14. Zambia – Knowledge and information
flow chart

15. Way Forward- Country Level
 Research gap on how to tracking agricultural production
and productivity periodically but capture more data on
vegetables, fruits and legumes as opposed to
cereals,and roots and tubers and livestock only
 Research gap on capturing data on food consumption
patterns with considerations to annual trends,
seasonality , gender/intra household dynamics, etc.
 Research gap on nutritive value of local foods and how
they can contribute to health diets

16. Way forward –country level
 Research gap on context specific nutrition sensitive
agriculture and how it can impact to health diets
 Research gaps in context specific suitable agro
nutrition indicators to track agricultural progress

17. CONCLUSION
A well coordinated Knowledge and information
management system at all levels
Emphasize country specific knowledge and
information flow
Need to build evidence informed policy and planning
tools for agriculture