A RESEARCH CARRIED OUT IN MICHIKA ADAMAWA STATE, NORTH EASTERN NIGERIA SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS AND NUTRITIONAL LIFESTYLES OF RURAL COMMUNITIES

1. MENTORSHIP PROJECT
PowerPoint presentation on sustainable nutrition interventions and
nutritional lifestyles of rural communities
BY
IMPACT TEAM HEALTHCARE AND NUTRITION DEPARTMENT
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2. Case study
 Theresa Jacobs’ story
 A 32years old, depending largely on her husband Jacob, 37years old man to
provide for her and her four children.
 Theresa’s hunger ordeal ended when she was selected to represent her
household in the Global Affairs funded Livelihood and Nutrition
Empowerment (LINE)
 She participated actively in the nutrition sensitization meetings where she
learnt about the importance of eating healthy meals prepared from different
food groups such as cereals, roots, tubers, fruits, vegetables, milk and meat.

3. Case study
 Maryam Aminus’ story
 Five months old is the product of exclusive breastfeeding practiced by her
mother in Nahalo Village of Ningi local government area of Bauchi State
 One of the communities benefiting from Global Affairs Canada’s funded
Livelihoods and Nutrition Empowerment project (LINE)
 Of all the six children delivered by her mother Lantana, Maryam is the
only one being exclusively breastfed-courtesy of a sensitization training
conducted for her mother and the other beneficiaries on exclusive
breastfeeding as well as infant and young child feeding practice.
 Because of the healthy look of Maryam, her mother has now become a role
model in the aspect of exclusive breastfeeding.

4. Desktop Research on Sustainable
Nutrition Interventions in Northeastern
Nigeria
NUTRITION SPECIFIC AGRICULTURAL INTERVENTION
 Farmers supported by United Nations Food and Agricultural
Organization(FAO)
 A Monitoring and Evaluation Officer at CBARDP (Community Based
Agricultural and Rural Development Programme an FAO implementing partner
at Borno state) reported a tremendous success at cause of their implementation
program
 They are now able to get income, save feeding costs and have surplus in the
home to take care of other basic needs

5. A CASE STUDY
 Abba Mursi recounts how he fled his community in Bama after an attack
two and half years ago and then took refuge in Gongulong Bulamari village
in the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital in Jere Local
Government Area, some 75 kilometres away from Bama.
 “I fled from Bama on foot and left everything behind, everything.”
 Mursi’s desire of returning to productive life was nurtured by FAO.

6. CASE STUDY CONT’D
 His carrot plot is doing well, less than three months after he received
seedlings and fertilisers support from FAO. He is also grateful to the
Gongulong Bulamari people for accepting him and giving him access to a
farmland where he hopes to eke out a living.

7. Nutrition specific sustainable interventions
 Based on the Report of the WINNN Programme August 2017
 Used of behavior change really impacted in the area of exclusive breast
feeding
 There is also evidence that WINNN helped to change fathers’ attitudes and
knowledge positively around the use of nutrition services and
recommended IYCF practices

8. LIVELIHOOD OF SOME VISITED
COMMUNITIES OF MICHIKA LGA
 FARMING
 Basically most of the people in rural area of Michika are agrarians with
little knowledge of diversify farming system to curtail personal nutritional
needs
 Moda Dlaka ward and Tumbara Ngabili ward; particularly Villegwa
and Kwaba Pale communities’ mostly grow Maize, Rice, Guinea
corn, Beans, Groundnut and Cassava which is peculiar to Tumbara
Ngabili ward
 They usually eat from farm product particularly maize and they
draft their livelihood from

9. LIVELIHOOD OF SOME VISITED
COMMUNITIES OF MICHIKA LGA cot’d
 Whereas no any feasible vegetable garden in practice all round the
visited community
 livestock farming; during the pre-insurgence period, they do rear
Cow, Goat, Sheep, Ram, Pig and Chicken
 But post insurgence period left them with less or noting, where those
that used to have a lot of livestock are left with few or nothing giving
greater gap in socio economic status of the populace

10. Responds about food intake
 Intake of food from Carbohydrate source(Maize/Rice) is on daily basis in
most of the community
 Intake of food from protein source E.g. plant source such as beans is
usually not more than twice a week
 From animal source E.g. Animal source mostly twice a month

11. Responds about food intake
 Fruit and vegetable
 Orange, Apple, and banana Pineapple are taken occasionally like once a
month
 Guava, Mangoes are seasonal fruit, hence taken seasonally
 Vegetable like spinach, amaranthus, okra and Moringa are all seasonal plan
and hence obtainable during rainy season where as the leaves are dried and
kept against dry season.