Science Forum 2013 Breakout Session 1 - UNDER-NUTRITION Prabhu Pingali comments on main speaker presentations

1. Breakout Session 1:
Under Nutrition – Comments
Prabhu Pingali
Cornell University

2. HH
Incomes
HH Food
Access
Individual
Food Intake
Individual
Nutrition
(e.g. stunting,
wasting)
Agricultural Interventions
Other Interventions (e.g. Health, Education)
e.g. relative
prices of foods
and non-foods,
diet diversity
e.g. gender
empowerment,
HH behavior,
demographics
e.g. sanitation
and hygiene,
health
conditions,
nutrition
practices
calorie
requirements
e.g. Ag productivity
growth and poverty
reduction
e.g. food price
effects,
fortification,
bio-fortification
e.g. ag
empowerment,
labor
e.g. food safety
Mediating Factors
Agriculture – Nutrition Pathways:
A Conceptual Framework
Source: BMGF Agriculture Division

3. Role of agriculture in nutrition
improvement
• Economic Growth and nutrition improvement
– is India an exception?
• Modernization of agriculture, food to cash
based agricultural economies – nutrition
implications
• Structural transformation, urbanization and
agricultural pathways to nutrition
improvement

4. Agricultural Growth & Food Prices
• Staple Food Price trends
• Relative prices of non-staple foods
• Connecting small farms to markets can have
win-win effects for relative prices & income
growth
• Dietary Diversity – how do we account for
processed food?

5. Relevance of agriculture for the first
1000 days (from conception through
the first two years)?
Its about the nutrition & health of the
mother

6. Rural change through women’s
empowerment
Women’s Self Help Group, Wardha
District, Maharashtra
Planning Sustainable Land Use, Kunti,
Jharkhand

7. Agricultural-nutrition pathways: do we
have the data and metrics?