Simbarashe Sibanda at CFS 42 side Event 2015
-
Upload
glopan -
Category
Government & Nonprofit
-
view
219 -
download
1
Transcript of Simbarashe Sibanda at CFS 42 side Event 2015
Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU): Improving Nutrition Outcomes Through Optimized Agriculture
InvestmentsSimbarashe Sibanda
http://fanrpan.org/projects/atonu/
• Six-year project focusing on how agriculture can deliver positive nutrition outcomes to smallholder farm families through the generation of robust evidence
• Focus countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana/Uganda
• Target groups: women of child-bearing age and children in first 1,000 days of life, high burden of malnutrition
• Design agricultural projects that deliver positive nutrition outcomes
• Technical assistance to ensure effectiveness of nutrition-sensitive interventions in agriculture programmes
ATONU
1,000 Days
Life cycle
Pre-conception
Conception to birth
0-6 months
6-24 months
Malnutrition: The Context• Africa is ranked as having the highest malnutrition rates in the world
with 17 countries having stunting rates above 40% and 36 countries above 30%
• Sub-Saharan Africa carries a high burden of under-nutrition, with 33% of childhood deaths linked to under-nutrition
• Traditionally, agricultural programmes have not intentionally focused on nutrition
• Climate change increases the need to integrate nutrition into agriculture
Malnutrition: the context
ATONU Problem StatementUnder-nourished smallholder farm families:
• There is a disconnect between agriculture and nutrition
• There are leakages along the agriculture value chain
• ATONU investments into nutrition sensitive agriculture will ensure maximum possible nutrients for a healthy active life
• Multi-sectoral approach to addressing malnutrition
ATONU Problem Statement
1.a) Promising agricultural projects identified for possible interventions
1.b) Methods for designing, implementing and evaluating interventions identified, adapted and
assembled
4a) Lessons and successes from ATONU out scaled to other agriculture projects
2) Tailored nutrition sensitive interventions are designed, implemented and evaluated
3) Successful models communicated, disseminated and promoted for adoption
4c) Policy makers and investors incorporate a nutrition lens in the design of agriculture projects
4b) Practitioners knowledgeable and equipped with evidence on how to design nutrition sensitive agriculture projects
5) Agriculture projects generate nutritional outcomes that benefit smallholder farm families particularly women of child bearing age and children in the first 1000 days
ATONU Theory of Change
Food production for household consumption
Income-oriented production for food,
health and other non-food items
Empowerment of women as
agents
Reduction in real food prices associated with increased agricultural
production
AG-Nutritional Pathways
ATONU Interventions
Crop / animal
husbandry
Aflatoxin control
Storage and
handlingFood
processing
Nutrition knowledge
Fortification
Biofortification
Women Empowerme
nt
Soil fertility
Market Enhancement
Policy environme
nt
Cooking
Labor saving technologies Gender Environmen
t
Germplasm
Where are the opportunities for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions?
Two pilot
projects each in Tanzania and
Ethiopia
Process of
designing
nutrition-
sensitive
interventions and
impact evaluati
on protocol
s
Baseline
surveys of
nutrition status,
implementation
and evaluati
on
Evidence and
lessons to be
used for upscalin
g and policy
advocacy and engage
ment
Progress and Next Steps
Healthy rural smallholder farm
families
Policy makers and investors incorporate
nutrition in the design of agricultural
policies and programmes
Validated evidence of nutrition
interventions
Ag-Nutrition community of
practice equipped to design nutrition
sensitive agriculture projects
Agricultural experts working with
nutrition and health experts to deliver positive nutrition
impact
WhatWhat would success look like?
Thank you