Integrating nutrition outcomes into agriculture development for impact at scale: Highlights from the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund
| Autor: | Renaud De Plaen, Kristina D. Michaux, Annie S. Wesley, Kyly C. Whitfield, Timothy J. Green |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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0301 basic medicine
Economic growth Cost effectiveness Nutrition Education Psychological intervention scaling up 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine children Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Introduction 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics Food security business.industry nutrition education Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Obstetrics and Gynecology Private sector Health indicator nutrition‐sensitive agriculture Agriculture Scale (social sciences) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health food and nutrition security women business |
| Zdroj: | Maternal & Child Nutrition |
| ISSN: | 1740-8709 1740-8695 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/mcn.12812 |
| Popis: | The Canadian International Food Security Research Fund programme supported research and scaling up of nutrition‐ and gender‐sensitive agriculture innovations from 2009 to 2018. Women and girls were identified as agents of change and were targeted as the main programme beneficiaries. Projects were implemented in 25 countries through multistakeholder partnerships among universities, research institutions, public and private sectors, and civil society groups, reaching over 78 million people, mainly women and children. Approaches specific to nutrition included growing more nutritious crops, improving dietary diversity, value added processing, food fortification, and nutrition education. Scale‐up for impact was achieved through a number of pathways that started with evidence through rigorous research, followed by a combination of elements such as understanding local and regional contexts to identify specific bottlenecks and opportunities for the deployment and adoption of successful innovations, selecting politically effective or influential partners to lead the scaling up process, and investing in long‐term local capacity and leadership building. Overall, the knowledge generated in the programme indicate that well‐designed nutrition‐sensitive agriculture and food‐based interventions can have meaningful impacts on pathways that will lead to better health and well‐being of women and children through improving household and individual access to nutrient‐rich foods. Longer intervention times are needed to demonstrate changes in health indicators such as reduced stunting. This overview paper summarises the programme and showcases examples from studies that demonstrate the impact pathway for nutrition interventions that encompass efficacy and effectiveness studies, value‐added processing, cost effectiveness of interventions, and bringing a proven intervention to scale. |
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