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Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
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Australian International Food Security CentreMellissa Wood, Director
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
AIFSC
• CHOGM initiative• Bridging research and
development – ‘blur’• African office• Initially A$33 million over
4 years• Delivered using
partnerships• Focus on food production,
access and utilization challenges
Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
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Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food
MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks
Focus of interventions
Outcomes
Impact
Policy frameworks
Increased food production
Increased income Improved access to knowledge
Increased institutional and
individual capacity
Improved nutrition and diversity in
diets
“Food security” = availability, access and utilisationBroad platform
Sustainable and productive
farming systems
Markets, value chains and
social systems
Food nutrition and safety
Communica-tions and
knowledge management
Education, training and
capacity building
Increased access to more nutritious and safe food and
less post harvest waste
Greater access to agricultural
innovations
Outputs of interventions
for smallholder female and male farmers and other poor households
Innovations in information
and knowledge delivery and
facilitated partnerships
Critical mass trained to address
food security issues, enduring
institutional partnerships
Program themes
Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security
(research) (capacity building)
Better market
access and returns, and
stronger value chains
Better informed and
supported policy
development
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
D
Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food
MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks
Focus of interventions
Outcomes
Impact
Policy frameworks
Increased food production
Increased income Improved access to knowledge
Increased institutional and
individual capacity
Improved nutrition and diversity in
diets
“Food security” = availability, access and utilisationBroad platform
Sustainable and productive
farming systems
Markets, value chains and
social systems
Food nutrition and safety
Communica-tions and
knowledge management
Education, training and
capacity building
Increased access to more nutritious and safe food and
less post harvest waste
Greater access to agricultural
innovations
Outputs of interventions
for smallholder female and male farmers and other poor households
Innovations in information
and knowledge delivery and
facilitated partnerships
Critical mass trained to address
food security issues, enduring
institutional partnerships
Program themes
Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security
(research) (capacity building)
Better market
access and returns, and
stronger value chains
Better informed and
supported policy
development
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Sustainable and productive
farming systems
Markets, value chains
& social systems
Food nutrition
and safety
Evergreen Agriculture$5.5million(+ $2 million)4 yearsUganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi
Adoption Pathways$3 million(+ $1.8 million)4 yearsEthiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique
Blue water use
Family poultry and crops
Vegetable-based farming
Understanding farming systems
Primary impactSecondary impact
scope
project
Small-scalemechanisation$4 million(+ $2.3 million)4 yearsEthiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Current activitiesReview of ACIAR’s projects in Africa – impacts and adoption
Foresight for food security
Landcare for Food Security
Drought tolerant sorghum
study
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Source: Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M Finucane, Christopher J Paciorek, Seth R Flaxman, Richard A White, Abigail J Donner, Majid Ezzati, on behalf of Nutrition Impact Model Study Group (Child Growth). Lancet July 5,2012, taken from IDS presentation.
SSA has a 0 – 0.24 probability of meeting MDG 1 target (underweight children)
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012 7
Direct Nutrition
Interventions
AgricultureSufficient food
production,Sufficient food
access, Diet diversity,
Gender
Social Protection
Poverty reduction
Social practices
Food prep’n, intra-
household distribution, Preferences,
GenderWater and SanitationFocus on
nutrition status outcomes
Health systemsView nutrition as lower in hierarchy
—embed direct nutrition
programmes
EducationKeep girls in secondary
school to delay age at first pregnancy
Effective nutrition action requires coherence and critical mass –from all sectors
Broa
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econ
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Effective governance of
nutrition
After:
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Objectives for the workshop
To identify:• research gaps in terms of food security,
agriculture and nutrition in line with the AIFSC strategy and African priorities
• how the AIFSC could best complement work being undertaken by partners in target countries and where we should invest.
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Objectives for the workshop (cont)Day 1 – knowledge sharing and review
Population nutritional indicators and statusDrivers and foresight Activities and actors
Day 2 – developing a framework for priority AIFSC investment
Analytical and transparentAcknowledging complexity, current activities Boundaries – firm and flexibleTimePartnersStrategic priority setting
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
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Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Vegetable scoping study• AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is coordinating
a preliminary study to improve income and nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa by enhancing vegetable based farming and food systems
• understand the characteristics of vegetable production systems in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), specifically in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, in order to develop appropriate and effective technological interventions which can maximize returns, generate and increase income to reduce poverty, and contribute to greater food and nutritional security.
• The specific objectives were to:– analyze the poverty and food insecurity reduction
potential of vegetable production in urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture;
– identify action-research topics with high potential for providing practical and policy advice on to how to promote vegetable production as a poverty and food insecurity reduction strategy;
– identify research partners to implement these activities and establish the best combination of action-research topics and partners within a coherent research project
Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012
Poultry project• Assoc. Prof. Robyn Alders involved for over 20
yrs
• Thermo-tolerant vaccine produced (ACIAR $) and distributed over several African countries (AusAID $)
• Sustainable system for vaccine production and coordinated distribution – vaccination and evaluation every 4 months
• 70-80% protection of flock against disease• Assessing poultry and crop value chains:
o strategic linkages to improve efficiency of both chains?
o ↑ poultry production/trade through supplementary feeding from crops?
o ↑’d efficiency of poultry production contribute to ecologically sustainable ag and food security?
o ↑ human nutritiono specialists in human health & nutrition, animal
health, value chains, gender/social issues