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Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme

Bruce Cogill P.h.D Bioversity International

Nutrition and Marketing Diversity Programme LeaderAIFSC Workshop

“Food and nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa” Nairobi, Kenya

10-11 September

CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Underlying model of determinants of nutritional status

Use of H&N Services

Health Supply

Health

HH Income + Women

Income Control

Nutrition

Food IntakeLong term

Education Supply

Education (Condition)

HH Food Security – Diet Diversity/

Quality/Quantity

Women’s time

Informed and Educated

population esp. girls

ProgramU

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mediate Causes

Outcom

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School Enrollment + Attendance

Health visits(Condition)

Cash to women

Feeding & Care WASH

Practices

Better safer foods

Women’s Knowledge &

Awareness

Education in Health & Nutrition to

Women

Adapted from Ruel

Social Behavior Change and Communications

All components

1. Enhancing Nutrition along the Value Chain

3. Prevention & Control of Ag-

Associated Diseases

2. Bio-fortification

4. Integrated Programs and Policies

Health

Nutrition

Agriculture

RESULT: Improved nutrition and health, especially among women and young children

Decreased risk of AAD

Increased income and

gender equity

Increased labor

productivity

Bioversity and A4NH Conceptual Framework

Improved availability, access, intake of nutritious,

safe foods

Increased knowledge

of nutrition, food safety

Strategic goal of A4NH:Accelerate progress in improving the nutrition and health of poor people by leveraging agriculture and enhancing the synergies in joint efforts between agriculture, health and nutrition

Focus areas Bioversity for the Initial Research Priorities in A4NH

NUTRITIONAL VALUE CHAINS

• Revise current value chain frameworks and assessments to better include nutritional quality (and food safety)

• Co-develop specific opportunities for enhancing nutritional quality for women, infants and young children in value chains for nutrient rich foods

INTEGRATED PROGRAMS AND POLICIES

• Strengthen program evaluation, working with partners, including new cross-sectoral metrics and approaches

• Cross-sectoral priorities and policies with key partners in SSA and South Asia

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Major objectives of Bioversity’s Nutrition work

1. Strengthen the evidence base for the role of biodiversity in nutrition and health and incorporating agricultural biodiversity into food and nutrition systems approaches

2. Conduct operations research on agricultural biodiversity practices and delivery systems in development and emergency programmes to improve food and nutrition security

3. Promote the production and value chains of more nutritious foods that reflect agricultural biodiverse practices and cultural preferences through commercial pathways

4. Inform policy and practice of evidence and provide solutions at the policy level by mainstreaming the importance of agricultural biodiversity into nutrition and public health sectors

GLOBAL PUBLIC GOODS

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Nutrition Strategy Objectives and Components

1) Strengthen the evidence base for the role of biodiversity in nutrition and health and incorporating agricultural biodiversity into food and nutrition systems approaches

A) Agricultural biodiversity in diets, health and livelihoodsB) Value of agricultural biodiversity in food and nutrition SystemsC) Nutritional anthropology and sociology of agricultural biodiversity

2) Conduct operations research on agricultural biodiversity practices and delivery systems in development and emergency programmes to improve food & nutrition security

A) Consumer demand, knowledge and access as drivers for smallholder farmers to produce and consume more nutritious, diversified foodB) Agricultural biodiversity as a mechanism for boosting disposable income for smallholder farmers allowing them to access more nutritious foods

3) Promote the production of more nutritious foods that reflect agricultural biodiverse practices and cultural preferences through commercial pathways (value chains)

4) Inform policy and practice of evidence and provide solutions at the policy level by mainstreaming the importance of agricultural biodiversity into nutrition and public health sectors

A) Integration of agricultural biodiversity in emergency and development programmes B) Value of agricultural biodiversity in food and nutrition systems, fully integrated with the other components of the food system approach

A) Contribute to international efforts that address global concerns, such as the response to soaring food prices, food sovereignty and the effects of globalization of diets on health through its assessment of the nutritional and livelihood benefits of local foods and food products derived from the rich biodiversity in the developing world

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Primary Beneficiaries

1. Rural small holder farmers in the developing world

2. Populations living in peri-urban and urban settings without access to diversity

3. Communities at risk of food system loss

Our ProjectsCost of Diets: • Quantifying the role of local, wild and underutilized foods in contributing to a nutritionally acceptable diet

while optimizing cost• With Museum of Kenya and Save the Children

FoodAfrica: • Strengthening the local knowledge and expertise of agricultural &related sciences• Identify current infant and child feeding practices in Rural Benin

Market Integration:• Assess the relative nutritional benefits of a diversity of locally-produced traditional foods produced at different

access points to markets

Kenya Inula Nutrition Study:• To examine the influence of agrobiodiversity on dietary diversity and quality, and on nutritional health of

women and infants/children under two years

Capacity Strengthening:• Train agriculturalists and nutritionists in research approaches to nutrition sensitive agriculture

Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project• Strengthen the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with high nutritional potential, by mainstreaming

into nutrition, food and livelihood security strategies and programmes; develop markets and value chains for nutritionally-relevant biodiversity. 9Cross cutting is Capacity Strengthening and Gender Focus

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Sustainable Diets Project

• Gaps in our understanding of what constitutes a sustainable diet

• Examples from studies of the Mediterranean Diet

• Need to value biodiversity and nutrition plus other dimensions

• New research on describing, measuring and promoting sustainable diets

• Determine indicators and guidelines aimed at measuring sustainability of diets worldwide

• Bioversity with the support of Daniel et Nina Carasso Foundation and a network of universities and research groups

NEW DIRECTIONS

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Sustainable Diets Nutritional adequacy

Low cost – accessibility

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Target

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PROVIDE EVIDENCE – Demonstrate the nutritional value of local BFN and the role it plays in promoting healthy diets and strengthening livelihoods

INFLUENCE POLICIES - Use the evidence to influence policies and markets that support the conservation and sustainable use of BFN for improved human nutrition and wellbeingRAISE AWARENESS – Develop tools and best practices for scaling up the use BFN in development programmes, value chains and local community initiatives.

•1/3 of the population is food insecure•1.8 million children chronically undernourished

ALVs, sorghum, millets, nuts and oil crops, indigenous fruits and livestock

Undernutrition ↓Overnutrition ↑ 50% of adult population overweight (80 million)

Plants for the Future Project (70 spp.)Non conventional leafy vegetables

Undernutrition ↓Overnutrition ↑•31% overweight•12% obese

28 spp. local edible plant species

• Acute protein-energy malnutrition

• Moderate Iron deficiency anaemia and VAD

Native root and tuber crops, traditional rice varieties, leafy vegetables and native fruits

5 year project : 2012 - 2017

Project aim: Strengthen the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity with high nutritional potential, by mainstreaming into nutrition, food and livelihood security strategies and programmes; develop markets and value chains for nutritionally-relevant biodiversity.