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Simbarashe Sibanda at CFS 42 side Event 2015
The 'Atonu' project aims to enhance nutritional outcomes in smallholder farming families in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Ghana/Uganda by integrating nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices. This initiative addresses the high rates of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa by providing technical assistance, developing tailored interventions, and promoting policy changes that prioritize nutrition in agricultural investments. Key target groups include women of child-bearing age and children within the first 1,000 days of life, focusing on evidence-based practices to improve food production and health outcomes.
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- 1. Agriculture to Nutrition(ATONU): Improving Nutrition Outcomes Through Optimized Agriculture Investments Simbarashe Sibanda http://fanrpan.org/projects/atonu/
- 2. • Six-year projectfocusing on how agriculture can deliver positive nutrition outcomes to smallholder farm families through the generation of robust evidence • Focus countries: Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tanzania and Ghana/Uganda • Target groups: women of child-bearing age and children in first 1,000 days of life, high burden of malnutrition • Design agricultural projects that deliver positive nutrition outcomes • Technical assistance to ensure effectiveness of nutrition- sensitive interventions in agriculture programmes ATONU 1,000 Days Life cycle Pre-conception Conception to birth 0-6 months 6-24 months
- 3. Malnutrition: The Context •Africa is ranked as having the highest malnutrition rates in the world with 17 countries having stunting rates above 40% and 36 countries above 30% • Sub-Saharan Africa carries a high burden of under-nutrition, with 33% of childhood deaths linked to under-nutrition • Traditionally, agricultural programmes have not intentionally focused on nutrition • Climate change increases the need to integrate nutrition into agriculture Malnutrition: the context
- 4. ATONU Problem Statement Under-nourishedsmallholder farm families: • There is a disconnect between agriculture and nutrition • There are leakages along the agriculture value chain • ATONU investments into nutrition sensitive agriculture will ensure maximum possible nutrients for a healthy active life • Multi-sectoral approach to addressing malnutrition ATONU Problem Statement
- 5. 1.a) Promising agriculturalprojects identified for possible interventions 1.b) Methods for designing, implementing and evaluating interventions identified, adapted and assembled 4a) Lessons and successes from ATONU out scaled to other agriculture projects 2) Tailored nutrition sensitive interventions are designed, implemented and evaluated 3) Successful models communicated, disseminated and promoted for adoption 4c) Policy makers and investors incorporate a nutrition lens in the design of agriculture projects 4b) Practitioners knowledgeable and equipped with evidence on how to design nutrition sensitive agriculture projects 5) Agriculture projects generate nutritional outcomes that benefit smallholder farm families particularly women of child bearing age and children in the first 1000 days ATONU Theory of Change
- 6. Food production for household consumption Income-oriented productionfor food, health and other non- food items Empowerment of women as agents Reduction in real food prices associated with increased agricultural production Nutrition Sensitive Agricultural Growth AG-Nutritional Pathways
- 7. ATONU Interventions Crop /animal husbandry Aflatoxin control Storage and handling Food processing Nutrition knowledge Fortification Biofortification Women Empowerment Soil fertility Market Enhancement Policy environment Cooking Labor saving technologies GenderEnvironment Germplasm Where are the opportunities for Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Interventions?
- 8. Two pilot projects each in Tanzania andEthiopia Process of designing nutrition- sensitive intervention s and impact evaluation protocols Baseline surveys of nutrition status, implementat ion and evaluation Evidence and lessons to be used for upscaling and policy advocacy and engagement Progress and Next Steps
- 9. Healthy rural smallholder farm families Policymakers and investors incorporate nutrition in the design of agricultural policies and programmes Validated evidence of nutrition interventions Ag-Nutrition community of practice equipped to design nutrition sensitive agriculture projects Agricultural experts working with nutrition and health experts to deliver positive nutrition impact WhatWhat would success look like?
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