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This document summarizes the goals and approach of the Livestock and Fish research program. The program aims to improve access to animal-source foods like meat, milk, and fish for poor communities through research focused on increasing productivity and market access for small-scale livestock and aquaculture production systems. The program will work on selected value chains in target countries, addressing constraints across the entire chain from inputs to consumers. The goal is to generate solutions that development partners can implement at large scale to benefit both producers and consumers.
1. The document describes a pilot program at Children's Hospital Colorado that aimed to influence healthy eating through price differentials. Unhealthy foods like fries and cheeseburgers were paired with healthy alternatives like vegetable sides and grilled chicken sandwiches.
2. The prices of the unhealthy foods were slightly increased while the healthy alternative prices were slightly decreased, making the healthy options relatively cheaper. Sales data from before and during the four-week pilot program in June 2015 was analyzed.
3. The results showed decreases in sales of the targeted unhealthy foods and increases in the healthy alternative foods while maintaining overall revenue neutrality. The program was well-received by employees and had positive public health implications. Continued experiments with price differentials were
CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas, Value for MoneyCGIAR
CGIAR is a global research partnership focused on ensuring food security. The document discusses results-based management approaches used by CGIAR to maximize value and achieve outcomes. It provides an example flagship focused on raising incomes and improving health at small cassava processing centers. The flagship aims to increase incomes for cassava producers and consumers, particularly women, and make processing safer. It also seeks to minimize environmental impacts of increased cassava production and processing.
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Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet, Sothyra Tum, Chhay Ty, Melissa Young and Delia Grace at the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project final workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21-22 June 2021.
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This document summarizes the goals and approach of the Livestock and Fish research program. The program aims to improve access to animal-source foods like meat, milk, and fish for poor communities through research focused on increasing productivity and market access for small-scale livestock and aquaculture production systems. The program will work on selected value chains in target countries, addressing constraints across the entire chain from inputs to consumers. The goal is to generate solutions that development partners can implement at large scale to benefit both producers and consumers.
1. The document describes a pilot program at Children's Hospital Colorado that aimed to influence healthy eating through price differentials. Unhealthy foods like fries and cheeseburgers were paired with healthy alternatives like vegetable sides and grilled chicken sandwiches.
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3. The results showed decreases in sales of the targeted unhealthy foods and increases in the healthy alternative foods while maintaining overall revenue neutrality. The program was well-received by employees and had positive public health implications. Continued experiments with price differentials were
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This document summarizes discussions from a planning meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish. The program aims to improve access to animal-source foods like meat, milk and fish for poor populations. Key points discussed include:
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This document summarizes a presentation on the role of dairy products in human nutrition. It discusses how dairy provides important nutrients for growth and development. Dairy production is increasing globally, especially in developing countries in Asia and Africa. However, issues around feed, land, water and greenhouse gases pose challenges. Dairy development programs aim to improve nutrition, but often lack nutrition objectives and indicators to properly evaluate their impact. Overall, dairy can be part of a healthy, balanced diet and provides many important nutrients when produced and processed safely.
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More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2015-the-journey-to-extraordinary
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1) The document discusses priorities for reshaping the global agri-food system through global cooperation in order to address challenges to human nutrition and planetary health.
2) It recommends targeting investments in key technologies for health and the environment like improved, climate-resilient crop varieties and nutrition-driven technologies to help end hunger and malnutrition.
3) Global cooperation on issues like addressing cross-boundary diseases, implementing climate-smart agriculture, and closing the gender gap in agriculture will be important, and effective governance mechanisms are needed to monitor progress.
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Presentation Hung Nguyen-Viet, Sothyra Tum, Chhay Ty, Melissa Young and Delia Grace at the Safe Food, Fair Food for Cambodia project final workshop, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 21-22 June 2021.
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This document summarizes a data science company that provides expert models, software, and services related to food safety, nutrition, exposure assessment, and risk analysis. They exploit real-world data and help industry and regulators make better decisions. Their platform includes pre-built modules, superior data security, and APIs. They work with top food, cosmetic, and chemical companies to conduct probabilistic exposure and intake modeling using their Total Aggregate Exposure and Creme Nutrition software.
Tanzania dairy genetics: Matching dairy genetics to smallholder farmers’ inpu...ILRI
The document discusses plans for a project that aims to identify a diverse group of smallholder dairy farmers in Tanzania to participate in collecting data on breed composition, productivity, and fitness in order to develop mechanisms for encouraging continued participation and adoption of improved management practices. Criteria for selecting farmers include random selection across study sites, owning a cow that recently had a calf or is pregnant, and a willingness to participate. Data to be collected includes reproductive performance, health, production, animal health, welfare, inputs, and enterprise characteristics.
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This document summarizes discussions from a planning meeting for the CGIAR Research Program on Livestock and Fish. The program aims to improve access to animal-source foods like meat, milk and fish for poor populations. Key points discussed include:
- Defining intermediate development outcomes and targets for improving income, productivity and equitable benefits for small-scale producers, especially women.
- Taking a value chain approach to address the whole system from inputs to consumers and design large-scale interventions with partners.
- Recognizing challenges in forming integrated teams across centers but also the opportunities for more meaningful, long-term research partnerships and impact.
- The need to focus efforts on a limited number of target value chains and
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This document summarizes a presentation on the role of dairy products in human nutrition. It discusses how dairy provides important nutrients for growth and development. Dairy production is increasing globally, especially in developing countries in Asia and Africa. However, issues around feed, land, water and greenhouse gases pose challenges. Dairy development programs aim to improve nutrition, but often lack nutrition objectives and indicators to properly evaluate their impact. Overall, dairy can be part of a healthy, balanced diet and provides many important nutrients when produced and processed safely.
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The document describes a pilot program to professionalize informal food markets in developing countries through training, certification, and branding of informal vendors. The program aims to improve food safety and nutrition by reducing contamination in the informal value chain. Research shows informal markets play a major role in food security but often lack knowledge and regulation regarding hygienic practices. The program trained informal dairy traders in Kenya, providing certification upon completion and allowing them to be officially recognized through branding. Preliminary results found improved hygienic practices and an economic impact, though longer-term follow up is still needed to ensure sustainability. The theory of change explains how such an intervention could work to ultimately benefit consumers through safer, more available food products.
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- Ultimately, food trust is a decision maker in purchasing new food and beverage products. Thus, great storytelling and transparency of the supply chain through social media and packaging compels consumers to trust and thus purchase the product.
The Organic Seed Alliance conducted surveys of organic farmers and seed companies to assess the state of organic seed systems. They found that while organic seed use is increasing, availability remains a challenge, especially for vegetable crops. Most farmers agree that testing for GMO contamination and developing varieties suited to organic systems are important. The Alliance aims to facilitate working groups and initiatives to address issues like seed integrity, information sharing, and support for organic plant breeding.
Assessing knowledge, attitude, and practices and small-scale commercial feed ...ILRI
Presented by Ben Lukuyu, Stella Namazzi, Pius Lutakome and Emily Ouma at the Tropentag 2021―Towards shifting paradigms in agriculture for a healthy and sustainable future, 15-17 September 2021
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More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2015-the-journey-to-extraordinary
The CGIAR Antimicrobial Resistance Hub was launched in February 2019 to implement the CGIAR strategy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The strategy prioritizes generating evidence on links between agriculture and public health, and developing locally relevant solutions. The hub coordinates AMR research across several CGIAR programs and facilitates partnerships to establish centers of excellence. It focuses on antimicrobial use and resistance in agriculture and their health implications using a One Health approach across five areas: use and value chains; prevalence and transmission; interventions; policy; and capacity building. The hub aims to support efforts in low and middle-income countries globally.
This document analyzes scientific studies on private sector engagement in food system transformations. It aims to assess study quality, analyze impact pathways, understand how private activities influence food systems, and identify success/failure factors. The approach includes conceptualization, literature review/screening, and case study analysis. The literature finds that business innovation, supply chain relationships, and governance regimes influence performance. A typology is proposed categorizing private sector roles. Public policies can support private sector engagement through price incentives, market transparency, reputation building, accreditation, and legal rules.
1) The document discusses priorities for reshaping the global agri-food system through global cooperation in order to address challenges to human nutrition and planetary health.
2) It recommends targeting investments in key technologies for health and the environment like improved, climate-resilient crop varieties and nutrition-driven technologies to help end hunger and malnutrition.
3) Global cooperation on issues like addressing cross-boundary diseases, implementing climate-smart agriculture, and closing the gender gap in agriculture will be important, and effective governance mechanisms are needed to monitor progress.
This document discusses the concepts of linked data and the semantic web. It explains that linked data is built upon semantic web standards and is focused on identifying and linking things on the web through the use of URIs. It provides examples of how URIs can be used to uniquely identify concepts like a particular NASA spacecraft. The overall document serves to illustrate how linked data has moved past just being a theory and is now a reality being used to connect data on the web.
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- The proposed methodology is a survey of 60 students to understand influences on their milk consumption using primary and secondary data collection. Analysis will use statistical tools to identify relationships between variables. Suggestions aim to promote locally produced fresh milk.
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The role of informal food markets—Towards professionalizing, not criminalizingILRI
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Livestock-derived foods and the first 1000 days: The essential role of livest...ILRI
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Building an enabling environment for food safety in informal markets in India...ILRI
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Overview
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Partnership for Impact Event_Brussels-Torero
1. Value Chains for Nutrition and
Smallholder Income
Maximo Torero
m.torero@cigar.org
Christoph Sänger
SaengerC@ebrd.com
2. Market failure focus
Goal: making commodities markets function
for the poor at local, regional, and
international markets by:
•
•
Releasing constraints to participation
Enhancing benefits from participation (better income
and nutrition)
Major Market Failures:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Externalities (+/-)
Merit and demerit goods
Public goods
Information asymmetry
Monopoly (monopsony) power
Government failure
inefficiency
and high
transaction
costs
3. But
• The Challenge: Income growth and market
development are not sufficient to improve
nutrition and food safety.
• The Opportunity: Can value chain research
improve market performance but also for
nutrition and food safety?
4. Income Growth Can Reduce
Child Stunting, But Other Actions Needed
A 10% increase
in GDP/PC
leads to a 6%
reduction in
stunting
Source: M.T. Ruel and H. Alderman (2013) Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate
progress in improving maternal and child nutrition? The Lancet 6736(13): 1-16 (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60843-0).
5. Income Growth Can Increase Risks of Overweight and
Obesity
A 10%
increase in
GDP/PC
leads to a 7%
increase in
overweight
and obesity in
women
Source: M.T. Ruel and H. Alderman (2013) Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate
5
progress in improving maternal and child nutrition? The Lancet 6736(13): 1-16 (DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60843-0).
6. Income Doesn’t Lead Diets
Towards Ideal Nutrition
(shares of daily calorie consumption by food groups)
Ideal
US
China
Bangladesh
Starchy
Staples
48
31
49
80
Legumes &
Nuts
22
5
3
4
Animal &
Fish
Products
10
14
20
4
9
7
9
2
11
43
19
10
Too many Too many
Too few
Fruits &
Vegetables
Fats &
Sugars
Total
Calories
2200
Source for “Ideal” shares: Thompson and Meerman, FAO, 2013
7. Value Chain Approach
Producer
Supply side
Inputs into production
Food production
Identify production and
market constraints to
improved nutrition and
safety
Food storage and processing
Food distribution and transport
Food retail and labeling
Develop and test
solutions
Example: Increased
seasonal availability of
fruit
Example: Nutrition
education delivered
by vegetable seed
supplier
Consumer
Test solutions to improve
demand for nutrition and
safety along the value
chain
Characterize diets, market
access and constraints to
consumption of
nutritious, safe foods
Demand side
8. Key topics we are focusing
• Nutrition and food safety
• Contract farming
• Farmer groups
• Access to finance
• Access to micro-insurance
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9. Key topics we are focusing
• Nutrition and food safety
• Contract farming
• Farmer groups
• Access to finance
• Access to micro-insurance
9
10. Value chain example: the Vietnamese
dairy sector
• Archetypal for high-value agricultural markets
in DCs
• Domestic demand for dairy products grows
quickly
• Atomistic supplier structure
• Buyer holds natural monopsony
• Sector is dominated by formerly state-owned
Vinamilk
11. Existing contractual arrangement
i
x 52
x 365
Factors constraining farm productivity:
“Usual suspects”: infrastructure, access to
inputs/credit, skills
But also contractual design and institutions?
— Lack of transparency: quality is assessed by the company
12. Research project and research questions
Research questions:
Does provision of 3rd-party quality assessment…
…make farmers produce more and higher quality milk?
…increase welfare levels of farming households and of the
dairy processor?
Field experiment:
• Through collaboration with Vinamilk we could work with
400 contracted dairy farmers in “natural” setting
13. Experimental Design
!
?
i
Treatment farmers (n=100) receive vouchers for
zero-cost milk testing in independent lab
B-samples taken & transported to independent
laboratory
Vouchers executed whenever farmers challenge
the company’s testing results
Company does not know when vouchers are
executed Eliminates opportunistic behavior
14. Main results
• Independent quality verification leads to higher input
use, more output, slightly higher household welfare
in treatment group compared to control group
• Independent quality verification enables the
processor to signal its type “fair”
• More transparency in the dairy supply chain
– Small-scale dairy farmers gain
– Processor gains from lower per-unit transaction
costs when procuring raw material
15. Policy implications
• Role for the state in establishing infrastructure for
third-party quality verification?
• More competition among buyers of milk would help
– Improve contract terms for small-scale farmers
– Race to the top with respect to transparency
15
16. Health benefits and Agricultural contracts
Experimental evidence from Northern Senegal
• Can health-related incentives be used to
overcome contract enforcement issues with
small-scale agriculture suppliers?
• Can existing value chain logistics be leveraged
to increase health conditions in remote
locations?
17. Health benefits and Agricultural contracts
Experimental evidence from Northern Senegal
• Semi-nomadic milk producers, very remote
location
• Milking efforts by women, cash collected by
men
• Highly unreliable milk supply, particularly in
dry season
• Extreme level of anemia prevalence for
children in the area (82% anemic, 15% severe
anemic).
18. Clear and significant effect on
milk delivery during dry season
Order of magnitude: 10
percentage point (=30%) higher
contract fulfillment in treatment
group in early June.
-.1
0
.1
.2
Preliminary results
Note: Impact parameter estimate for separate impact
estimates ran each week. Lowess smoothing function
used across estimates. Dahes lines are 95% confidence
interval
Positive dose-response effect on
children’s health (Hemoglobin
level)
Order of magnitude: 1.25 g/dl Hemoglobin
increase for 16 weeks of continuous
fortified porridge intake.
Note: Generalized propensity score estimate used
to deal with endogeneity of treatment intensity.
Green and red lines are 95% confidence interval
19. Summary
• Addresses market failures to release constraints
faced by smallholders but to enhance benefits
• Although Increased calorie production and
incomes is not sufficient and no longer seen as
ag’s only role
• We also need to increase diet diversity and
consumption of nutrient rich foods
• Is central to identify barriers to greater
consumption of nutritious foods
• Tests market solutions to provide better nutrition
and food safety
Editor's Notes
How far can income take us?
TechnologiesImprovements in production, storage, handling, processing, or marketing to reduce nutritional loss, improve access, or reduce safety risks, eg. Greater seasonal availability for fruitsInformationIncreased demand for improved safety and nutrition through education or improved incentives for different actors in the value chain, eg. Nutrition education with improved vegetable seedsNutritional quality reflected in prices and/or made more affordable, eg., quality certification for locally sourced infant foodsPolicies and InstitutionsNew contractual arrangements create incentives to deliver more nutrient rich foods or to create demand for such foods, eg. Home grown school lunch programs