This document outlines strategies and activities for nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Uganda to improve children and adult's health from 2021-2025. It discusses three key areas of intervention: 1) making food more available and accessible, 2) making food more diverse and production more sustainable, and 3) making food more nutritious. Specific current and planned activities are described under each strategic intervention, including promoting kitchen gardens, biofortified crops, and post-harvest management training. The goals are to increase access to nutritious foods, promote balanced diets, and support agricultural best practices.

1. NUTRITION-SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE (NSA) FOR CHILDREN AND
ADULTS HEALTH
Jacqueline Namusalisi & Fred Lukandwa
NSA
June 12, 2022
SASAKAWA AFRICA ASSOCIATION

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1.Strategies of interventions
o Area 1: Making food more available and accessible
o Area 2: Making food more diverse and production more sustainable
o Area 3: Making food itself more nutritious
 Some strategies have been identified to cover the above three (3)
areas and activities have been outlined for each strategy
 These activities will form the operational plan for the
implementation of nutrition-sensitive agriculture for Children and
Adults Health for SAA Core Project (2021-2025).

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2. Strategic Achievements
N0. Activities Project
1. Nutrition Awareness Campaign (NAC) at Farmers, Extension Officials and SAA
Staff levels
NF and Extra core
2. Demonstration of nutritious porridge at grade II health facilities NF and Extra core
3. Press Conference on Aflatoxin Management and Control in agricultural food stuff
and article written in the New vision
Public
3. Promotion of Climate Smart water harvesting and irrigation Technologies NF
4. Trained women farmers on labour and time-saving women/gender-friendly
mechanisation technologies
NF and extra core
5. Food loss: Training frontline extension staff on food postharvest management, on-
farm storage, safety and quality aspects
NF
Training on machine operation, maintenance, safety precaution and related
postharvest quality aspects.
NF and extra core
Conducted baseline survey NF
6. Train farmers on postharvest management, value addition and consumption of Extra core (on-going)

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Work in progress: Some of the current NSA activities

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o Nutritious food recipes for children
(Enriched complementary porridge;
nutritious complementary food for children
(local balanced diet)
o Nutritious food recipes for adults: local
balanced diet)
o Method of cooking food

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Nutrition Materials

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5.1 Strategic interventions
N0. Achieved Activities where
1. Promotion of kitchen gardens, cultivation of bio-fortified crops NF Districts
2. Market Functionality, Food Safety and Quality Standards of Food Karamoja
3. Organize a “Nutrition Week” (to be completed in 2022) NF Districts
4. Partnerships with Gulu University on Rice parboiling project, Honda on production
machines, Crestanks Ug. Ltd
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5. Promote appropriate and safe utilization of agricultural chemicals
5. Rice parboiling training of selected women rice farming groups North
6. Training agro processing farmer groups on product development, packaging,
lebelling, agro-processing technologies and Enterprise Management
NF Districts
7. Develop training manuals, Food cards, recipe posters and Vegetable PHM training
materials
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8. Training of operators of different machines installed in OSCAs OSCA stores

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5.2 Strategic interventions Ahead
N0. Planned Activities in 2023 where
1. Production of stevia as a natural sweetener North
2. Establishment of “Nutrition–Sensitive Agriculture Model Home / Village”
including the “Nutrition Demonstration Center”
Intervention Districts
3. Organize a “Nutrition Week”
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Training selected lead farmers on Nutrient-retaining food preparation and processing of
locally-available foods, and improve local knowledge, attitudes and practices to increase
demand for nutritious and balanced-diet feeding
5. Promote appropriate and safe utilization of agricultural chemicals
5. Partnerships with International Rice Research Institute, Ministry of Health and
Education for School feeding programs
6. Training agro processing farmer groups on product development, packaging,
lebelling, agro-processing technologies and Enterprise Management
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8. Training of operators of different machines

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