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Integrating Nutrition Education in Agriculture Extension Services in Kenya
By Dr. Teresa Tumwet, Head/Home EconomicsMinistry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries
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Presentation outline
• Introduction• Importance of Integrating Nutrition Education• Nutrition Education Initiatives• Opportunities for integrating Nutrition Education• Gaps/Challenges
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Introduction
• Agricultural extension agents organize farmers for crop, livestock and fish production
• Address marketing issues, environmental deterioration, non farm rural employment, HIV/AIDS , malnutrition, processing and partner with other service providers.
• Create an enabling environment for sustainable development and management of resources to ensure the country is food and nutrition secure.
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Cont’d
• Nutrition Education will therefore ensure proper utilization of the foods for nutrient retention and bioavailabilty
• This leads to improved nutritional status at household level, translates to community and National levels
• Integrating nutrition education to extension services leads to improved productivity and contributes to poverty reduction strategies and economic development.
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Cont’d
• About 2 billion people Worldwide have multiple deficiencies of vitamin A, Iron, Iodine or Zinc which are mainly available in fruits and vegetables easily grown in home gardens
• Micronutrient intake is a factor of availability, accessibility and sustainability
• Also proper processing, preparation, utilization, preservation and storage
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Importance of Integrating Nutrition Education• The importance of consuming high micronutrient
rich foods cannot be over-emphasized• It is clear that inadequate nutritional knowledge will
make people consume less diverse foods (<5 food groups), and,
• Use of improper preparation methods that will compromise on nutritional value of the food leading to malnutrition
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Cont’d
• Studies have shown that a stunted child will not reach their potential in life and will most likely give birth to another stunted child!
• This becomes a vicious cycle of low intellectual ability, low productivity, reduced economic growth and poverty
• This can only be broken through consumption of micronutrient rich foods; fruits and vegetables
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Nutrition Education Initiatives
• Development and implementation of the National Food & Nutrition Security Policy and Implementation framework
• Integrating Nutrition Education in all Food Security Projects and Programmes
• Adopting various approaches; e-extension; Farmers Field Schools; Group; Individual farmer; use of ICT; Public/Private Partnership
• Development of comprehensive TOT manual
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Cont’d Initiatives
• Integrating Nutrition Education in Formal school curricula
• Implementing Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) AND Comprehensive Accelerated Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) initiatives
• Reviewing the Kenya Food Composition Tables• Strengthening collaboration with relevant
stakeholders
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Opportunities for integrating Nutrition Education• Use of ICT, Media• Formal education curricula• Including Nutrition indicators in routine data
collection activities• Creating awareness at every available forum
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Gaps/Challenges• Capacity building of Counties to upscale and harmonize
the nutrition programmes• Implementation of a National food and Nutrition
security programme to scale up lessons learnt• Upscaling the food processing and preservation
initiatives to commercialization level• Low funding levels
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Improve nutrition status: Invest in Nutrition education