While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However more nutrition-relevant data from agricultural interventions needs to be generated, collected and shared, and nutritional indicators need to be included in evaluations. LCIRAH identify the need for greater understanding of the pathways from agricultural inputs and practices through value chains to effects on food environment, consumption and nutrition.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Bien que les programmes de recherche se multiplient, il n'existe pas encore de preuves concrètes sur la façon dont les relations entre l’agriculture et la nutrition fonctionnent. Un état des lieux a été réalisé par DFID/LCIRAH montrant les lacunes de la recherche dans ce domaine. Cependant, d'importantes données nutritionnelles pertinentes doivent être générées, collectées et partagées ; et les indicateurs nutritionnels doivent être inclus dans les évaluations. LCIRAH identifie la nécessité pour une large compréhension des mécanismes depuis les intrants et pratiques agricoles, a travers les chaines de valeur et aux effets sur les aliments, la consommation et la nutrition.
Visitez le site de la GCARD2 pour plus d'informations: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Next StepsFAO
Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Next Steps: Work Programme of the UN
Decade of Action on Nutrition in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Co-Chairs: Anna Lartey, Director, Nutrition and Food Systems division, FAO, and Francesco Branca
Nutrition-sensitive food systems: from concepts to practice: Resources for de...Francois Stepman
15 May 2017. Brussels. Infopoint Lunchtime Conference: presentation by Cristina Amaral, Director, FAO liaison office with the European Union and Belgium
Charlotte Dufour, FAO Nutrition policy and programme officer
Domitille Kauffmann, FAO Nutrition and resilience and capacity development advisor
Preliminar results of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy review, World Health Or...ExternalEvents
Preliminar results of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy review
Chizuru Nshida, World Health Organization
Special Event - Meeting the challenge of a new era for achieving healthy diet and nutrition: outcomes of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy Review, organized by WHO
Presentation of BFN activities to SADC countries - Feb 2015Teresa Borelli
The presentations was delivered to a meeting of SADC countries showing how traditional crops can provide useful food alternatives when nutrition and food security is poor and when climate events can cause other crops to fail.
Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition in BrazilTeresa Borelli
Why does Brazil think that agricultural biodiversity matters and how the country is mainstreaming biodiversity for food and nutrition into policies and programs tackling food security
Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Next StepsFAO
Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2) Next Steps: Work Programme of the UN
Decade of Action on Nutrition in the era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Co-Chairs: Anna Lartey, Director, Nutrition and Food Systems division, FAO, and Francesco Branca
Nutrition-sensitive food systems: from concepts to practice: Resources for de...Francois Stepman
15 May 2017. Brussels. Infopoint Lunchtime Conference: presentation by Cristina Amaral, Director, FAO liaison office with the European Union and Belgium
Charlotte Dufour, FAO Nutrition policy and programme officer
Domitille Kauffmann, FAO Nutrition and resilience and capacity development advisor
Preliminar results of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy review, World Health Or...ExternalEvents
Preliminar results of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy review
Chizuru Nshida, World Health Organization
Special Event - Meeting the challenge of a new era for achieving healthy diet and nutrition: outcomes of the 2nd Global Nutrition Policy Review, organized by WHO
Presentation of BFN activities to SADC countries - Feb 2015Teresa Borelli
The presentations was delivered to a meeting of SADC countries showing how traditional crops can provide useful food alternatives when nutrition and food security is poor and when climate events can cause other crops to fail.
Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition in BrazilTeresa Borelli
Why does Brazil think that agricultural biodiversity matters and how the country is mainstreaming biodiversity for food and nutrition into policies and programs tackling food security
Contribution of the GEF Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition to ‘mainstreaming’; country experiences.
Presentation given by Danny Hunter, Global Project Coordinator, Bioversity International at the side event ' Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action' on the occasion of the 15th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy - 20th January 2015
Ensuring agricultural biodiversity and nutrition remain central to addressing...Bioversity International
Given at Bioversity/FAO meeting on Biodiversity and sustainable diets, 3-5 November 2010. Read more about Bioversity International’s work on diet diversity for nutrition and health: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/
Helping countries improve nutrition outcomes through agriculture and food - w...Francois Stepman
11 December 2017. Brussels. DevCo Infopoint. Countries are seeking to improve nutrition through multiple sectors, including agriculture and food systems. This requires navigating dietary transitions, strengthening country ownership of programmes and investment decisions, working with public and private partners, and better understanding drivers that shape demand. These are key considerations for lesson learning moving forward.
Introduction: Bernard Rey, Deputy Head of Unit, DEVCO C1- Rural Development, Food Security, Nutrition
Panel discussion:
John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Roseline Remans, Research Scientist, Bioversity International, Brussels
Thom Achterbosch, Senior Researcher, Wageningen Economic Research, International Policy
Please find also the link to the video of the conference:
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/news-and-events/agriculture-nutrition-outcomes-countries_en
ICN2-Nutrition policies:from 1992 ICN to 2014 ICN2FAO
Nutrition policies:from 1992 ICN to 2014 ICN2
Chizuru Nishida
Coordinator, Nutrition Policy and Scientific Advice
Department of Nutrition for Health and development
WHO/HQ
Approaching sustainable urban development in China through a food system pla...Steffanie Scott
After more than two decades of rapid urbanization, Chinese cities now face severe sustainability challenges in terms of balancing economic viability, social justice, and environmental protection goals. While various types of planning have long been adopted to cope with these challenges, food as a centerpiece of daily life and of social and economic activity in cities has rarely been considered as a focus of urban planning in China, despite a lot of recent attention to food waste and food safety concerns. In contrast, over the past decade or more, cities in the west have seen food system planning emerge as a holistic lens to promote multifaceted urban development strategies. Community gardens and neighbourhood farmers’ markets are two common examples. In these strategies, food has been recognized as a powerful element that links closely with multiple economic, social, health, and environmental issues.
This paper thus calls for an integration of food issues into urban planning in Chinese cities. Our paper reviews some successful cases of food system assessments and planning in the west and provides a preliminary framework for food system planning in China. The framework brings together various priorities: connecting people to the food system, community economic development, access to healthy food, ecological health, and integrated food policy. By applying this framework to examine urban food systems in China, our paper identifies strengths and challenges for achieving sustainability goals. This analysis also sets the stage for future research in urban food system planning in China.
A Powerpoint presentation to Asheville's City Council regarding food security, the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council, and possible policies to make Asheville a food secure community.
Camila Oliveira is an environmental analyst at the Ministry of the Environment in Brazil and national manager of the Bioversity International 4-country project 'Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition'. In her presentation for Italian Development Cooperation's Expo 2015 event she brought attention to Brazil's precious agricultural biodiversity and how it can be used for food and nutrition security. Learn more about Bioversity International's participation at Expo 2015: http://bit.ly/1GOimdm
ABSTRACT
Brazil suffers from high rates of malnutrition, with one in three children aged between five and nine overweight. Brazil is also home to a significant amount of the world’s biodiversity much of it edible and nutritious. As part of the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (BFN) initiative funded by the United Nations, Brazil believes that biodiversity for food and nutrition can help fight its current diet-related problems. As such, the government is adopting three approaches to effectively embed biodiversity into the national food and nutritional security policy framework.
The first approach is to increase knowledge of how diverse underutilized native species can contribute to food security by carrying out a nutritional analysis of 70 edible plant species. Three national programmes are exploiting the nutrition potential of some of these species. These include targeting the national school feeding programme to promote healthy eating habits in schools, a scheme which also ensures that 30% of procurement is from local family farmers.
The second approach has been the revision of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan to comply with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and to halt biodiversity loss. One of the reasons for biodiversity loss in Brazil is the limited appreciation of the use of biodiversity for food and nutrition to date.
The third approach is to increase awareness on how biodiversity can contribute to food and nutrition. A weekly farmers’ market has been launched at the Brasilia Botanical Garden and several cultural gastronomic events organized in different cities, with cooking demonstrations and opportunities to taste native and nutritious biodiverse foods.
Contribution of indigenous fruits and vegetables to dietary diversity and qua...Bioversity International
Presentation given by Dr. Bruce Cogill at the International Horticultural Congress 2014.
The world has a historically unprecedented abundance of food, though contemporary food systems face numerous new challenges from population growth, natural resource
depletion, and rapid dietary transitions away from diverse, locally-sourced and sustainable mix of foods towards diets dominated by homogenous, highly-processed, energy-dense, and animal-source foods The alarming increase in diet and lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) alongside persistent poverty and undernutrition demands a reassessment of dietary choices, guidelines, policies and programmes.
This presentation presents 5 case studies on the contribution of diverse foods, particularly indigenous fruits and vegetables, to culturally-acceptable, cost-effective, sustainable, and nutritious diets.
Read more about our work on diet diversity for nutrition and health here: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/
Understanding sustainable diets - Four papers, three published in high impact peer-reviewed journals, further our understanding of sustainable diets. Find out more here: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/news/detail/understanding-sustainable-diets/
9 February 2017, the first Food for All Talk (#FFATalks) under the WBG-Netherlands Partnership took place on the subject: Food Systems for Healthier Diets.
Conserving genetic diversity for food and nutrition in BrazilTeresa Borelli
BFN Brazil describes the process it underwent to identify the main causes of biodiversity loss in Brazil and the steps it undertook to influence existing policies and programs to recognize the importance of biodiversity with nutrition importance
Social Protection and Agriculture for Food Security: Breaking the Cycle of Po...Pascal Corbé
Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction at FAO, presents at GIZ workshop "Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?", Eschborn, 7 July 2016
Contribution of the GEF Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition to ‘mainstreaming’; country experiences.
Presentation given by Danny Hunter, Global Project Coordinator, Bioversity International at the side event ' Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action' on the occasion of the 15th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy - 20th January 2015
Ensuring agricultural biodiversity and nutrition remain central to addressing...Bioversity International
Given at Bioversity/FAO meeting on Biodiversity and sustainable diets, 3-5 November 2010. Read more about Bioversity International’s work on diet diversity for nutrition and health: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/
Helping countries improve nutrition outcomes through agriculture and food - w...Francois Stepman
11 December 2017. Brussels. DevCo Infopoint. Countries are seeking to improve nutrition through multiple sectors, including agriculture and food systems. This requires navigating dietary transitions, strengthening country ownership of programmes and investment decisions, working with public and private partners, and better understanding drivers that shape demand. These are key considerations for lesson learning moving forward.
Introduction: Bernard Rey, Deputy Head of Unit, DEVCO C1- Rural Development, Food Security, Nutrition
Panel discussion:
John McDermott, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)
Namukolo Covic, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Roseline Remans, Research Scientist, Bioversity International, Brussels
Thom Achterbosch, Senior Researcher, Wageningen Economic Research, International Policy
Please find also the link to the video of the conference:
https://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/news-and-events/agriculture-nutrition-outcomes-countries_en
ICN2-Nutrition policies:from 1992 ICN to 2014 ICN2FAO
Nutrition policies:from 1992 ICN to 2014 ICN2
Chizuru Nishida
Coordinator, Nutrition Policy and Scientific Advice
Department of Nutrition for Health and development
WHO/HQ
Approaching sustainable urban development in China through a food system pla...Steffanie Scott
After more than two decades of rapid urbanization, Chinese cities now face severe sustainability challenges in terms of balancing economic viability, social justice, and environmental protection goals. While various types of planning have long been adopted to cope with these challenges, food as a centerpiece of daily life and of social and economic activity in cities has rarely been considered as a focus of urban planning in China, despite a lot of recent attention to food waste and food safety concerns. In contrast, over the past decade or more, cities in the west have seen food system planning emerge as a holistic lens to promote multifaceted urban development strategies. Community gardens and neighbourhood farmers’ markets are two common examples. In these strategies, food has been recognized as a powerful element that links closely with multiple economic, social, health, and environmental issues.
This paper thus calls for an integration of food issues into urban planning in Chinese cities. Our paper reviews some successful cases of food system assessments and planning in the west and provides a preliminary framework for food system planning in China. The framework brings together various priorities: connecting people to the food system, community economic development, access to healthy food, ecological health, and integrated food policy. By applying this framework to examine urban food systems in China, our paper identifies strengths and challenges for achieving sustainability goals. This analysis also sets the stage for future research in urban food system planning in China.
A Powerpoint presentation to Asheville's City Council regarding food security, the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council, and possible policies to make Asheville a food secure community.
Camila Oliveira is an environmental analyst at the Ministry of the Environment in Brazil and national manager of the Bioversity International 4-country project 'Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition'. In her presentation for Italian Development Cooperation's Expo 2015 event she brought attention to Brazil's precious agricultural biodiversity and how it can be used for food and nutrition security. Learn more about Bioversity International's participation at Expo 2015: http://bit.ly/1GOimdm
ABSTRACT
Brazil suffers from high rates of malnutrition, with one in three children aged between five and nine overweight. Brazil is also home to a significant amount of the world’s biodiversity much of it edible and nutritious. As part of the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition (BFN) initiative funded by the United Nations, Brazil believes that biodiversity for food and nutrition can help fight its current diet-related problems. As such, the government is adopting three approaches to effectively embed biodiversity into the national food and nutritional security policy framework.
The first approach is to increase knowledge of how diverse underutilized native species can contribute to food security by carrying out a nutritional analysis of 70 edible plant species. Three national programmes are exploiting the nutrition potential of some of these species. These include targeting the national school feeding programme to promote healthy eating habits in schools, a scheme which also ensures that 30% of procurement is from local family farmers.
The second approach has been the revision of the National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan to comply with the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and to halt biodiversity loss. One of the reasons for biodiversity loss in Brazil is the limited appreciation of the use of biodiversity for food and nutrition to date.
The third approach is to increase awareness on how biodiversity can contribute to food and nutrition. A weekly farmers’ market has been launched at the Brasilia Botanical Garden and several cultural gastronomic events organized in different cities, with cooking demonstrations and opportunities to taste native and nutritious biodiverse foods.
Contribution of indigenous fruits and vegetables to dietary diversity and qua...Bioversity International
Presentation given by Dr. Bruce Cogill at the International Horticultural Congress 2014.
The world has a historically unprecedented abundance of food, though contemporary food systems face numerous new challenges from population growth, natural resource
depletion, and rapid dietary transitions away from diverse, locally-sourced and sustainable mix of foods towards diets dominated by homogenous, highly-processed, energy-dense, and animal-source foods The alarming increase in diet and lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) alongside persistent poverty and undernutrition demands a reassessment of dietary choices, guidelines, policies and programmes.
This presentation presents 5 case studies on the contribution of diverse foods, particularly indigenous fruits and vegetables, to culturally-acceptable, cost-effective, sustainable, and nutritious diets.
Read more about our work on diet diversity for nutrition and health here: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/
Understanding sustainable diets - Four papers, three published in high impact peer-reviewed journals, further our understanding of sustainable diets. Find out more here: http://www.bioversityinternational.org/news/detail/understanding-sustainable-diets/
9 February 2017, the first Food for All Talk (#FFATalks) under the WBG-Netherlands Partnership took place on the subject: Food Systems for Healthier Diets.
Conserving genetic diversity for food and nutrition in BrazilTeresa Borelli
BFN Brazil describes the process it underwent to identify the main causes of biodiversity loss in Brazil and the steps it undertook to influence existing policies and programs to recognize the importance of biodiversity with nutrition importance
Social Protection and Agriculture for Food Security: Breaking the Cycle of Po...Pascal Corbé
Benjamin Davis, Strategic Programme Leader, Rural Poverty Reduction at FAO, presents at GIZ workshop "Agriculture Meets Social Protection: How can food and nutrition security benefit?", Eschborn, 7 July 2016
In developing a digital footprint, iWowWe will make more millionaires than any other company by changing the way the world communicates. iWowWe is the next evolution of Skype, Apple and Microsoft all rolled into one. http://customernation2.iwowwe.com/compensation-plan.html
Transitions at work are challenging, complex, and confusing! Here's what over 600 leaders transitioning into first time, middle manager, and executive roles had to say about their ordeals.
The agenda of GCARD2 (.docx). Up dated version of 25 october 2012.
Le programme de la GCARD2 (.docx). Version actualisee du 25 octobre 2012
http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
This document highlights the urgent changes required in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) systems to address worldwide challenges. GCARD2 http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Ce document présente la nécessité, les défis et opportunités de transformer les systèmes de Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (AR4D). GCARD2 http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Este documento destaca los cambios urgentes necesarios en la investigación agrícola para sistemas de desarrollo (AR4D) para abordar los desafíos en todo el mundo. GCARD2 http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Briefing paper National Food Security - CGIAR Research Program on Livestock ...GCARD Conferences
The CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish and the role of development partners: The overall rationale, assumptions and approach adopted by the program will be described, and the specific role that we expect development partners to play in achieving its objectives.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Le programme de Recherche du CGIAR sur l’Elevage et la Pêche et le rôle des partenaires au développement : Le contexte et justification, les hypothèses et l’approche adoptée par le programme seront décrits, ainsi que le rôle spécifique que les partenaires au développement doivent jouer dans la réalisation des objectifs dudit programme.
Visitez le site web de la GCARD2 pour plus d'information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
The contribution of GEF 'Biodiversity for food and nutrition' country experiences
Presentation given by Danny Hunter, Global Project Coordinator, Bioversity International at the side event ' Mainstreaming biodiversity for improved human nutrition and well-being: moving from global initiatives to local action' on the occasion of the 15th Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, Italy - January 20th 2015
Find out more about the initiative here:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research-portfolio/diet-diversity/biodiversity-for-food-and-nutrition/
Visit the B4FN website:
http://www.b4fn.org/home.html
Contributions of the BFN Project to mainstreaming - country experiencesTeresa Borelli
Through its national partners, the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Initiative is contributing to greater policy and public awareness of the role of local, neglected and underutilised foods in achieving more nutritious and varied diets
Current strategies for stunting reduction in the light of emerging evidence o...Francois Stepman
Habiba Hassan-Wassef, MD
National Research Center, Cairo, Egypt
1-5 October 2018. Addis Abeba. The 8th Africa Nutritional Epidemiology Conference (ANEC VIII 2018)
This report published by Food Climate Research Network of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO).
Plates, Pyramids, Planet - covers the Developments in National Healthy and Sustainable Guidelines : A State of Play assessment
Key messages from Learning Event No. 8: "How we can reshape food access and consumption patterns to ensure nutritional needs while fostering healthy and sustainable eating habits worldwide?", at the 2012 Agriculture and Rural Development Day in Rio de Janiero.
2022 Nutrition Month Presentation
This year’s campaign is guided by the theme “New normal sa nutrisyon, sama-samang gawan ng solusyon!” The theme was approved by the NNC Technical Committee through ad referendum in March. The theme calls for solidarity to address malnutrition in the new normal. It also holds the promise that after this once in a lifetime pandemic, we can recover and build back better through improved nutrition and resilience.
nutrition month campaign particularly its objectives and key messages, how the pandemic affected nutrition, how nutrition and resilience are linked, define new normal and the new normal in nutrition that we want. Lastly, I will share our call for support from among the different sectors so that through our collective effort, we can improve nutrition as we move forward to a better new normal.
Similar to GCARD2: Briefing paper Household Nutrition Security (WFP) (20)
GFAR / GODAN / CTA webinar #2 "Key data for farmers" - Stephen Kalyesubula - ...GCARD Conferences
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/taHHp3UbRZI, 28/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #2
Data becomes significant if it can be linked to information, knowledge and wisdom. Once processed it can be used to generate detailed insights into farm operations and the environment. It assists big and small holder farmers in making data-based operational decisions to optimize yield and boost revenue while minimizing expenses, the chances of crop failure, and environmental impact.
For data driven agriculture to happen we have to distinguish the data streams in the food chain from pre-planting to consumption, for example: data collected and managed from the farm by farmers which can be either static or dynamic; data coming from external sources like market prices and data that is exported for aggregation by other farm service providers. However, farmers may not be in a position to realize those streams and possibly what data and information is required to answer the food chain questions, for example: What produce can I grow where I live? When should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? How should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? All these questions can be answered if the factual data or information is used or made available to the farmers.
Webinar Goals
Make the participants understand the different key data streams, flow and sources that are vital to agricultural value chains. Participants will be in position to identify the data they own or collect on their farms and its usefulness, understand the difference between human and machine farm data, identify the part in the agricultural value chain where data, and which data, is needed most.
About the presenter
Stephen Kalyesubula is a Computer Engineering and an agri-preneur from Makerere University. He is a graduate researcher at iLabs@Mak Project – Makerere University and his key technological interests include: Data science, robotics, Internet of things, AI and design thinking. He is among the directors of Youths In Technology and Development Uganda whose mission is to create tech communities of practice where appropriate use of technology promotes sustainable development in agriculture, health and education.
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/DMg9UI7Ur0M, 26/3/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #3
This webinar is a continuation of exploring digital agriculture for smallholder farmers. The first webinar provided an overview of digital agriculture, the trends impacting it, and it advantages and challenges for smallholder farmers. The second identified specific data needed by farmers, as well as potential sources.
“Crossing the Donga” will provide smallholder farmers, and those who support them, specific methods for ensuring farmer-centric solutions. The webinar will examine some of the key challenges that are blocking adoption of digital architecture by smallholder farmers. Attendees will learn a process for mapping their data needs, based on their goals and key tasks. Attendees will learn the foundational market model, and how to create value for success.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
GFAR / GODAN / CTA webinar #1 "Data-driven agriculture. An overview" - Dan Be...GCARD Conferences
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/bsicKqHZIz4, 22/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #1
Precision agriculture is a promising set of technologies that is data intensive, but which has limited adoption by small holder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concurrently, current trends in sustainability, traceability, and compliance reporting demand that an ever-increasing amount of data be gathered as part of everyday operations in modern production agriculture.
The use of farm management information systems (FMIS) for decision support has shown great promise for improving farm yields and profitability. However, growers are often unsure of the value of the data that they are providing and/or receiving. How does this data help them make the right decisions to improve their yield and profitability? How do growers and service providers work together to simplify the design and use of farm data? How can smallholder farmers take advantage of data in a mutually valuable relationship with data providers?
Webinar Goals
Provide attendees a foundation for understanding the use of data for farming and across the agricultural value chain. Attendees should be able to apply the core concepts of using data for field operations, as well as how data is used across the value chain. Attendees will be introduced to the opportunities and challenges of using data, especially for smallholder farmers.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
GFAR webinar "The future of online media" - webdesign trendsGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used during our GFAR webinar on "The future of online media", announced here: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/10/09/upcoming-webinar-predicting-future-online-media/
Check out the live webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/N8UkwOoI9hQ
GFAR webinar "building a bridge between scientists and communicators"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Building a bridge between scientists and communicators"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/01/03/webinar-scientists-and-communicators-friends-or-foes/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/HK8Q0JgAaGQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Email newsletters"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/02/05/upcoming-comms-webinar-email-based-newsletters-not-a-thing-of-the-past/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2NPpCxcJJUc
GFAR Webinar "Finding and using pictures for your website or blog"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Website Revamps"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/06/13/webinar-alert-is-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/mJ-q1CxK_rQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Basic SEO"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/08/30/gfar-webinars-on-search-engine-optimization-and-website-revamps/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/kcty662Hcss
GFAR webinar on "Measuring social media performance"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/01/18/flash-two-more-gfar-social-media-webinars/
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2015/11/30/free-induction-webinar-social-media-for-professionals/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/WO1zUOOy1nA
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This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/11/26/webinar-innovating-annual-reports/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/BAsPhl0H4Ec
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This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and TAP.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/24/gfartap-webinar-sharing-knowledge-on-capacity-development-for-agricultural-innovation-through-tapipedia/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/_cHK5QK2rPk
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This webinar was co-organised by GFAR, COSA and GLF and is part of a wider series on agricultural research & innovation,eco-systems management and sustainable development.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/13/join-cosa-gfar-impact-webinar/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: Effective https://youtu.be/RtYlWo_Ok5o
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http://landscapes.org
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The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/05/gfar-webinar-web-casting/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7IsZQi5zg
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The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/08/31/gfar-webinar-communications-success-stories/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/N16hHmL8xNM
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You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/RxuLR2FWYYI
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...and the actual webinar recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9c2_nbtBc
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GCARD2: Briefing paper Household Nutrition Security (WFP)
1. DRAFT
Breakout Session P1.2 Household Nutrition Security: Briefing Paper
Lynn Brown (WFP)
Context – the problems being addressed
One billion people in the world do not have enough food to eat, even as vitamin and mineral
deficiencies are compromising the health and nutrition of even more. As well as the
unbearable human cost - undernutrition irreversibly damages cognitive and physical
development – it is estimated that undernutrition contributes to the loss of an average of 2-3
percent of developing countries’ GDP. The international development community is now
considering how agriculture could better contribute to improving human health and nutrition
and how health and nutrition could contribute to a more productive and sustainable
agricultural system?1 Paramount to reaching these answers is the need for greater
collaboration between the agriculture and health communities and the bringing together of
two sectors that in the past have often acted in silos.
Global agriculture is facing a myriad of challenges such as how to overcome shortfalls in food
production, how to reduce food loss and waste, how to diversify agro-ecosystems, how to
improve resilience of crops and more. These challenges are aggravated by issues of land and
other natural resource availability, population growth, urbanization, price volatility and
climate change. Policymakers must consider all of these challenges in agriculture as well as
refine the traditional focus from ‘how to increase food production’ to ‘how agriculture can
improve nutrition and health’. Examples of such a shift include a focus on greater diversity of
crops, breeding of new varieties of crops with improved nutritional content (bio-fortification)
and schemes to increase household production and consumption of micronutrient-rich
vegetables, fruits and animal-source foods and the advancement of sustainable diets among
other initiatives. Nutrition programmes equally need to consider how they can support local
agro-systems.
15. There are major opportunities to incorporate small adjustments to investments across sectors
such as agriculture to make them more nutrition sensitive with a potentially impressive impact
on nutrition outcomes. Based on experience to-date, five steps are necessary for transforming
new operations to be more nutrition sensitive:
a. Explicitly incorporate nutritional considerations into initial design of projects/policies;
b. Integrate nutritional considerations as elements of investments, not necessarily as the
primary objective;
c. Modify the design/consider alternatives to minimize unintended negative
consequences and maximize positive impacts;
d. Support nutritional objectives with technical capacity within countries;
e. Monitor and evaluate nutrition impacts with appropriate indicators.
While the research agenda is growing, there remains limited concrete evidence on how
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IFPRI Global Food Policy Report 2011
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2. agriculture–nutrition linkages work. A mapping exercise has been completed by
DFID/LCIRAH outlining the research gaps. However, more nutrition-relevant data from
agricultural interventions needs to be generated, collected and shared, and nutritional
indicators need to be included in evaluations. LCIRAH identify the need for greater
understanding of the pathways from agricultural inputs and practices through value chains to
effects on food environment, consumption and nutrition. Innovation and engagement with the
private sector is also key to linking the two silos and improving household nutrition security.
Current activities presented and discussed in the session
Chair: Barbara Burlingame (FAO); Facilitator: Lynn Brown (WFP)
The Chair and Facilitator will open the Session by introducing the topic and identifying
constraints and opportunities in incorporating nutrition into AR4D agendas, systems and
processes and achieving greater household nutritional security;
A panel of practitioners with field experience will outline diverse approaches, activities,
challenges and visions for meeting nutrition needs;
This will be followed by a Session on global platforms, dialogue, policies and
initiatives;
Following a plenary discussion on the above two sessions, a panel of donors,
foundations, representatives from the private sector and research institutes will map out
the road ahead and the relevant priorities and actions for working together to take the
agenda forward as well as the critical role of funding.
Practitioner panel on meeting nutrition needs through diverse approaches.
Action contre la Faim (ACF) will present case studies on low input gardens in Zimbabwe,
health gardens in Mali, SUSTAIN in Myanmar and bio-fortification in South and Central
America.
Helen Keller International (HKI) will consider how to take forward and strengthen
partnerships, the need for balancing consumption and income needs (moving away from
consumption-only goals), the importance of intra-household and equity issues, challenges of
scale and targeting and the issue of data deficits in measuring nutrition and other outcomes.
Diversity for Development (D4D) will focus on the need for greater diversity within
agricultural systems and the need to coordinate advocacy through the D4D Alliance.
Global Initiatives and Platforms
CRP4 will present the role of the CGIAR research programme on agriculture for nutrition and
health (A4NH) and its three pathways through which agriculture can enhance human nutrition
and health: through agriculture and food value chains, by improving the desired nutrition and
health impacts of large-scale programmes and by supporting better policymaking and
investment in agriculture, nutrition and health.
SecureNutrition, focused on taking a multi-sectoral approach to improved nutrition outcomes
through investments in the agriculture and rural development sector, will present its active
community of practice - both virtual and physical - where information and operational
knowledge on how to increase the nutritional impact of agriculture and food security
investments and interventions is being shared.
FAO will present on sustainable production and diets. diets focusing on nutrients, foods and
diets as ecosystem services, developing sustainable production intensification strategies
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3. within environmental limits, characterization of agro-ecological zones for sustainable diets,
measuring nutrients and bioactive non-nutrients in food biodiversity, documenting traditional
food systems of indigenous peoples, development of indicators for sustainable diets,
calculating environmental footprints for achieving dietary adequacy and addressing nutrient
losses and waste.
DFID/LCIRAH will discuss their mapping and gap analysis of current and planned research
on agriculture for improved nutrition and resulting conceptual framework defining pathways
by which agriculture may contribute to nutrition, either directly or indirectly.
WFP will outline the different platforms, policy issues and focus including the Global Donor
Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN) and the Gender in
Agriculture Partnership (GAP).
Intended outcomes
Identify what activities can be started immediately to bring the agriculture and nutrition
agendas closer together;
Identify the opportunities and bottlenecks to achieving this;
Develop a roadmap outlining how to reach the identified goals.
Commitments to collective actions in 2012-2014 (national, regional or international)
i. With existing resources
Establish a framework for examining agricultural interventions in support of nutritional
outcomes, in order to establish where gaps in research exist (LCIRAH);
More task team leaders in the agriculture sector to integrate nutrition into their programs
(WB);
Research institutes working in partnership to provide relevant and timely knowledge,
technology and evidence for decision-making and implementations (CRP4);
A seminal scientific paper determining the merits of crop diversification to be published
in a scientific journal and used by the D4D alliance in multiple global fora (D4D);
Roll out integrated gender-nutrition-communication manual and mainstream nutrition
orientations to agriculture extension services and NGOs (HKI);
Disseminate lessons learned of the added nutrition impact of gender-transformative
community actions, and of food-based approaches (HKI);
Link smallholder agriculture production under “Purchase for Progress” to bio-fortified
crops where available (WFP);
Identification of a common research agenda and priorities that links agriculture,
nutrition and the environment, with sustainable diets as the aim. (FAO);
Develop a research agenda that is a direct response to the UN Secretary General’s ‘Zero
Hunger Challenge’ on access to food for all all year round, ending stunting among
children under two, ensuring food systems are sustainable, doubling smallholder
productivity and income and a reducing food waste (FAO).
ii. With additional support
Extend the network of researchers who are undertaking and evaluating agricultural
interventions for nutritional outcomes so as to engage a larger research community and
include training in evaluation methods (LCIRAH);
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4. Continue to seek interest and resources to scale up nutrition sensitive agriculture,
particularly in high undernutrition burden countries (WB);
Expand market-based approaches to promoting the nutritional value of varieties;
cultivate research and development investment in nutrient-rich processed and packaged
foods (HKI);
Continue to explore the sustainability and nutritional impact of individual-based and
network-based approaches to smallholder farmers (HKI);
Empower farmers with communication and marketing skills, and support smallholder
farmers as local government resource persons on nutrition and food security (HKI);
Integrate rigorous evaluation of BCC strategies and cost-benefit analysis of intensive
and “light” nutrition actions (HKI);
Promote development of ready to use supplemental foods using locally sourced crops
(WFP).
iii. With specific large scale programme investment
Link research across programmes so researchers in one programme will benefit from
what other researchers are doing in other programmes (LCIRAH);
Continued engagement with the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Programme (CAADP) process through the Africa region. Specifically, both agriculture
and nutrition teams from the World Bank are collaborating and engaging on Pillar 3 of
the CAADP, which is focused on increasing the food supply and reducing hunger across
the region by raising smallholder productivity and improved responses in emergency
situations (WB);
Advocate for integrating nutrition into the agriculture extension curriculum and taking
affirmative actions to increase representation of women in agriculture departments at all
levels (HKI);
Establish liaisons connecting female farmers nationally or throughout the region (HKI);
Invest in media campaigns to address nutrition behaviour (HKI);
Increasingly incorporate locally produced supplemental foods in programming to
prevent stunting in children under two years (WFP).
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