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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages. TOPS Food Security Meeting Maputo September 2011. Nutrition and GDP. $. $. Nutrition and food consumption issues are critical to sustainably reduce poverty and decrease maternal and child mortality. Up to 3% GDP LOSSES due to undernutrition.
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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages TOPS Food Security Meeting Maputo September 2011
Nutrition and GDP $ $ Nutrition and food consumption issues are critical to sustainably reduce poverty and decrease maternal and child mortality. Up to 3% GDP LOSSES due to undernutrition World Bank 2006 2
What Supports Child Nutrition? Access to water/ sanitation/hygiene and basic health services Access to food Improvedmaternal and child-care practices
AgricultureandNutrition Pathways Sold at market Health Care Non-food cash crops Income Nutritional status Livestock, fish, non- timber forest products Agricultural processing Food Meal preparation Dietary Intake Food crops Human Capital Kept for household Assets &Resources International Center for Research on Women
NUTRITION-SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE REACH, Sierra Leone
PRINCIPLES • Agriculture affects nutrition outcomes indirectlyIt works through effects on the underlying causes of undernutrition: access to food and food production, health and care, and most directly through the effects of income and prices on household food security • Nutrition is both an input for and an outcome of agricultural productivity • The appropriate actions will be identified through an analysis of determinants of food insecurity/ undernutrition • Plan multisectorally and implement sectorally
What is USAID doing to link Agriculture and Nutrition? Feed the Future Global Health Initiative Nutrition Agriculture Programs Health Services Improved nutrition-related behaviors Improved access to diverse and quality foods Improved utilization of maternal and child health and nutrition services including hygiene 7
Key Linkages: Gender, Nutrition, and Agriculture Focus on women because of their role as care givers, producers, processors of food Nutrition and health protocols: Customs detrimental to child health and development Gender approach: involving men
Empowerment of women with knowledge and skills to prevent or reverse malnutrition, capacity to care for their children, access to technical resources to improve food production and/or food processing.
Increase year-round supply of nutrient rich foods • Address gaps in sector-specific efforts, such as production or income gains that fail to translate into improved nutritional status. • Reduce women’s resource constraints by improving their access to productive technologies such as seeds and extension services; • Identify characteristics of different crop varieties that may be preferred more by men or women • Provide extension support to enhance uptake of the preferred varieties • Focus on developing technologies that increase productivity in parts of the food chain that fall largely within women’s domain