Transcript Approaches for Integrating Nutrition and Food Security, in Value

Approaches for Integrating
Nutrition and Food Security,
in Value Chain Development
CAADP Program Design and
Implementation Workshop
InterContinental Hotel
Nairobi, Kenya, October 20-22, 2010
Robert Mwadime, AED|FANTA II
Main Forms of Malnutrition
• Window of opportunity: -9 to 24 months
• Underweight (as measure in MDG1)
– 11-14% of children are born underweight
• Micronutrient malnutrition
• Iron deficiency anaemia
– 60-75% among children
– 40-60% in women of child bearing age
– Main source of death (in women and pre-term mortality)
– Huge effect on physical productivity
What value are we getting?
Input
suppliers
Producers
Processers
/traders
Wholesalers
retailers
• Monetary
• Welfare
• Health and nutrition
Consumers
Balancing the benefits
Monetary
•Women workload
•Resource control
Welfare
•Ability to procure foods
to increase diversity
•Stabilization of
consumption
Value chain
governance
Nutrition
and
health
•Expedited
energy
•ACD and other
illnesses
•Diversified foods
produced
• Food safety
Governing the Process
Input
suppliers
Producers
Processers
/traders
Wholesalers
retailers
Consumers
What to produce?
•Nutrient value of produce, diversification
•Land/labour for diversification)
How to add value?
•Workload, energy expedited, power/empowerment
•Production to smoothen consumption
•Improving/preserving nutrition value
How to use the value/gains?
•Power/empowerment
•Storage and/or to smoothen consumption
•Preferences demand
Meeting nutrition objectives
• Context analysis
– Who are most vulnerable? When, why?
• Creating opportunities for potential linkages
• Creating demand for nutrition behaviours,
appropriate feeding practices
• Defining the process of integration at the
different levels (Uganda example)
This presentation is made possible by the generous support of the American
people through the support of the Office of Health, Infectious Disease, and
Nutrition, Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International
Development (USAID), under terms of Cooperative Agreement No. GHN-A00-08-00001-00, through the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II
Project (FANTA-2), managed by AED. The contents are the responsibility of
AED and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States
Government.
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance II Project (FANTA-2)
AED E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.fanta-2.org