THE WAY FORWARD

Pamela Anderson, International Potato Center

First Global Biofortification Conference

11 November 2010

Challenges

• INTEGRATION of Agriculture & Nutrition

• Shorten the Timeline

• Build the Body of Evidence for Advocacy

Challenges

• INTEGRATION of Agriculture & NutritionEvolving from “linking ag & nutrition” to integrated systems research

• Shorten the Timeline

• Build the Body of Evidence for Advocacy

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Age: 2 yr 9 mo

BW: 10.7 kg

Height: 78.3 cm

Age: 2 yr 6 mo

BW: 11.6 kg

Height: 86.4 cm

Girls from ANDAHUAYLAS(Photograph: Courtesy of UNICEF)

Prevalence estimates of stunting, wasting and overweight using the new WHO Child Growth

Standard

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10

20

30

40

50

60

Argen

tina,

2006

Bolivia,

2003

Brazil,

1996

Colombia, 20

05

Dominican R

epublic

, 200

2

Ecuad

or, 200

2

El Salva

dor, 2003

Guatemala

, 2002

Haiti, 2

005

Honduras, 200

5

Nicaragua,

2001

Peru, 2

004-2

006

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ge

Stunting Wasting Overweight

Prevalence of Stunting in under 5 years by departments, Peru 2000

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30

40

50

60

70

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NCHS

WHO

Source: CENAN sobre datos de ENDES 2000

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Olluco

Kañihua

Quinua

Oca

Potato

Barley

Ullucos tuberosus

Chenopodium quínoa

Oxalis tuberosa

Ssp. Andigena

(Carbohidrate)

(Carbohidrates)97 / 2.1 / 0.5

61 / 1.0 / 1.6

62 / 1.1 / 1.1

376 / 11.5 / 4.2

Nutritional properties(quality and quantity of aminoacids

(Metabolismo de colorantes sanguíneos)

Energ.K/Cal

Proteing.

HierroMg.

Energ.K/Cal

Proteinasg.

HierroMg.

Energ.K/Cal

Proteing.

HierroMg. Energ.

K/CalProtein

g.HierroMg.

Mutton

Dairy

Needs and Opportunity Assessments

• Nutritional Profile/Disease Burden• Dietary System• Cropping System/Livelihood System• Health Services• Gender – women’s status• Institutional Landscape• Policy Environment

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Integrated Systems Research

• Nutrition-disease interactions• Dietary systems (synergies; inhibitions)• Cropping systems (Zn; complementary crops)• Gender studies• Delivery – Implementation research• Partnership research• Screening methodologies• Impact assessment methodologies

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43

20

27

17

13

27

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50

Bean(200g)

OFSP(50g)

Bean(150g)

OFSP(50g) +bean

(150g)

Bean(200g)

OFSP(50g)

Bean(150g)

OFSP(50g) +bean

(150g)

% R

DA

RDA (5% biav.)

RDA (10% biav.)

RDA (5% biav.)

RDA (5% biav.)

RDA (10% biav.)

RDA (10% biav.)

RDA (10% biav.)

RDA (5% biav.)

Considering the base line Considering the base line + PI

Contribution of bean and OFSP and the mixture of them to the RDA

Percentual contribution of determinant factors to malnutrition

Food26.1%

Health

19.3%

Women Status

11.6%

Female Education43.0%

Source: Smith L. and Haddad L. Overcoming child malnutrition in developing countries, past achievements and future choices. International Food Policy Research Institute. Washington DC 2000. MSGC

Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (AKIS) for potato in Uganda

Challenges

How will we educate the next generation of research and development professionals

for integrated systems research ?

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Challenges

• INTEGRATION of Agriculture & Nutrition

• Shorten the Timeline

• Build the Body of Evidence for Advocacy

Pro-poor research and development cycle

Target areas

Scaling Up for Impact

Impact assessment

Research

Needs and opportunity assessment

Challenges

• INTEGRATION of Agriculture & Nutrition

• Shorten the Timeline

• Build the Body of Evidence for Advocacy

Photo: Jean-Louis Gonterre 2008