Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
Food systems transformation: what is the role of pulses in the sustainability...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presentaed during the seminar Soils & Pulses: symbiosis for life that took place at FAO HQ on 19 Apr 2016. it was made by Massimo Iannetta & Milena Stefanova and it presents the Food systems transformation.
2016 International Conference on Pulses – Concluding remarksCGIAR
This document summarizes key points from presentations at the 2016 International Conference on Pulses. Over 300 participants from 36 countries attended. Presentations covered topics like pulses genomics, genetic resources conservation, breeding innovations, and opportunities to enhance pulses production. It discussed the shift in CGIAR's research programs from commodity-focused to agri-food systems approaches. The concluding remarks emphasized the need for more integrated, collaborative research to address complex challenges through social, institutional and technological innovations.
Presentation at the Dupont Forum. The panel will look at how investing in technologies is insufficient on its own to enact effective agricultural water management, and will explore the importance of accompanying context appropriate policies and institutions.
This document summarizes a presentation on agroecological approaches to breeding crops. It discusses breeding crops for mixtures and polycultures, including selecting varieties that complement each other in architecture, growth patterns, and resource use. Examples are provided of intercropping systems like maize-peanut and pigeon pea-groundnut mixtures that allow the crops to access different soil resources. The importance of understanding competition in monocultures and mutual benefits in mixtures is emphasized for successful selection.
Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
This document discusses the importance of considering local nutrition, biodiversity, and cultural practices when developing landscape and food system interventions. It addresses the following key points:
1) Putting local people and their knowledge, varieties/breeds, forest foods, and cultural practices at the center of interventions.
2) Taking a "whole of diet" approach that considers the diversity of foods needed, including cereals, tubers, roots, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, meat/fish, and insects, to meet nutritional needs.
3) Bioversity is developing tools to document local food biodiversity, composition, consumption, seasonality, and affordability to identify opportunities to promote production and consumption of local
Food systems transformation: what is the role of pulses in the sustainability...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presentaed during the seminar Soils & Pulses: symbiosis for life that took place at FAO HQ on 19 Apr 2016. it was made by Massimo Iannetta & Milena Stefanova and it presents the Food systems transformation.
2016 International Conference on Pulses – Concluding remarksCGIAR
This document summarizes key points from presentations at the 2016 International Conference on Pulses. Over 300 participants from 36 countries attended. Presentations covered topics like pulses genomics, genetic resources conservation, breeding innovations, and opportunities to enhance pulses production. It discussed the shift in CGIAR's research programs from commodity-focused to agri-food systems approaches. The concluding remarks emphasized the need for more integrated, collaborative research to address complex challenges through social, institutional and technological innovations.
Presentation at the Dupont Forum. The panel will look at how investing in technologies is insufficient on its own to enact effective agricultural water management, and will explore the importance of accompanying context appropriate policies and institutions.
This document summarizes a presentation on agroecological approaches to breeding crops. It discusses breeding crops for mixtures and polycultures, including selecting varieties that complement each other in architecture, growth patterns, and resource use. Examples are provided of intercropping systems like maize-peanut and pigeon pea-groundnut mixtures that allow the crops to access different soil resources. The importance of understanding competition in monocultures and mutual benefits in mixtures is emphasized for successful selection.
We Manage What We Measure: An Agrobiodiversity Index to Help Deliver SDGsBioversity International
Presentation delivered by M. Ann Tutwiler at the International Agrobiodiversity Congress 2016, held in Delhi, India, 6-9 November.
The presentation outlined a new Agrobiodiversity Index that will enable governments, private sector and other decision-makers to assess and track agrobiodiversity in food systems. Currently there is no consistent way to do this.
Find out more about the India Agrobiodiversity Congress:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/iac2016/
IAC 2016 gathered 850 delegates from over 40 countries across the world who presented the results and stories of progress of agrobiodiversity research they are involved in.
Home-grown: Linking farmers to markets in Western KenyaTeresa Borelli
BFN Kenya describes its success in linking smallholder farmers to institutional markets in Western Kenya and in promoting African Leafy Vegetables for improved food and nutrition outcomes
Findings from a survey in western kenya to determine the soil fertility reple...Innspub Net
This document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted in Western Kenya to determine adoption rates of soil fertility replenishment technologies by farmers. The survey interviewed 223 farmers, about half of which were members of farmer groups, and evaluated adoption levels of 11 technologies. It found that inorganic fertilizers and improved legumes had the highest adoption rates, while technologies like intercropping and manure use had lower rates. Farmer group membership, education levels, and location influenced adoption levels. Bungoma county had significantly higher adoption than Busia and Vihiga counties.
A short booklet that describes how and why Bioversity International carries out research for development in agricultural and tree biodiversity. The booklet gives information about why agricultural and tree biodiversity matters for sustainable development, our strategic initiatives, where we work and our areas of scientific expertise. Find out more on www.bioversityinternational.org
"Overview: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy...ExternalEvents
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.1: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy diets"
The contribution of smallholder farmers to the Agenda 2030ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presentaed during the seminar Soils & Pulses: symbiosis for life that took place at FAO HQ on 19 Apr 2016. it was made by Wafaa El Khoury and it presents The contribution of smallholder farmers to the Agenda 2030.
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.
Presentation of BFN activities at the Alacati Herb FestivalTeresa Borelli
Recent successes in BFN activities were presented at the Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition Conference organized in the framework of the Alacati Herb Festival in Turkey in March 2015.
The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting...ExternalEvents
The document summarizes efforts to map food access disparities and promote healthy diets through increasing access to supermarkets. A task force used GIS maps to identify areas with limited supermarket access and higher rates of diet-related diseases. This informed recommendations to approve funding for 88 new grocery stores in underserved communities, creating jobs and tax revenue while improving access for 400,000 residents. Similar public-private financing initiatives were established in several other states and nationally to systematically address gaps in healthy food access.
"Leveraging market opportunities for promoting healthy diets Gianluca Brunor...ExternalEvents
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.3: Leveraging market opportunities for promoting healthy diets"
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate cha...ExternalEvents
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate change mitigation presentation by "Daniel Sumner, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America
"
Where our Food Crops Come from: A new estimation of countries’ interdependenc...CWR Project
Presentation given by CIAT/Colin K. Khoury at the side event "Where our Food Crops Come from: A new estimation of countries’ interdependence in plant genetic resources" at GB6, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 7 October 2015
This document discusses challenges facing global agriculture and nutrition, including poor diets being a leading health risk worldwide, and farmers facing novel climates by 2050 due to climate change. It notes that three crops - wheat, rice, and maize - provide over half the world's plant-based calories, and highlights millets as nutritious and resilient but neglected crops. The remainder of the document outlines efforts in India to mainstream the production and consumption of millets, including improving cultivation practices with farmers, establishing community seed banks, developing millet products, including millets in school meals and the Public Distribution Scheme.
The Public Seed Initiative and Variety TrialsSeeds
This document discusses the Public Seed Initiative and variety trials in Hawaii. It provides information on seed programs, the protection of seeds by companies, different types of seeds, and the decline of public breeding programs. The document also discusses alternative breeding programs, artisanal community seed production, results from a Hawaii statewide seed assessment survey, goals and designs of variety trials, and examples of collaborative research trials on crops like tomatoes, lettuces, and baby watermelons.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
Masiga - Enhanced Utilization of Biotechnology Research and Development Innov...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Livestock production and climate change: towards sustainable production with ...ExternalEvents
the Produção Integrada de Sistemas Agropecuários (PISA) System in Brazil, by Paulo César F Carvalho, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.1: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy diets"
Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International presentation on NOT finding the world's next superfood. This presentation was delivered at Kew Gardens on May 12th 2016 at the State of the World's Plants Symposium.
Abstract: In the last few years, superfoods such as quinoa, amaranth and goji berries have been celebrated in the international media in recognition of their rich nutrient content.
But it is not just Western consumers that can benefit from rediscovering these forgotten foods.
M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, will explain how many nutritious traditional foods, which have largely fallen off menus and research-for-development agendas in favour of a handful of staple grains, are starting to make a comeback on the plates of the world’s poorest and most malnourished populations.
Bioversity International carries out research on a diverse range of underutilized crops, and advocates for their wider use in healthy diets from sustainable food systems. This overview will include examples of how research-for-development efforts on quinoa in the High Andes and minor millets in India have helped bring diverse varieties back to the farm, the market and the plate. She will highlight how these crops are often not just nutrient-rich but also have a high potential to contribute to livelihoods. They are often also highly resilient to today’s production challenges, such as climate change.
In conclusion, M. Ann Tutwiler will outline the urgent need to identify, promote and protect these useful plants which all have the potential to be placed into a diverse basket of Super Foods when it comes to delivering food and nutrition security.
Can trade policies have co-benefits for nutrition? FAO
Can trade policies have co-benefits for nutrition? The findings of an expert consultation on trade and
nutrition, by Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO.
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium/en/
Integrating gendered knowledge into banana breedingCGIAR
This presentation was given during a webinar on May 17, 2018. Graham Thiele (GBI/RTB), Jacqueline Ashby (Independent Consultant), Pricilla Marimo (Bioversity International) and Robooni Tumuhimbise (NARO) gave a total of three presentations. This is the first of these presentations, given by Pricilla Marimo and Robooni Tumuhimbise.
Find out more at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gender-breeding-checklist/
Design elements for gender-responsive breeding: Starting points and unresolve...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Jacqueline Ashby on 21 September 2017, as part of the webinar 'Design elements for gender-responsive breeding'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-design-elements-gender-responsive-breeding/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
We Manage What We Measure: An Agrobiodiversity Index to Help Deliver SDGsBioversity International
Presentation delivered by M. Ann Tutwiler at the International Agrobiodiversity Congress 2016, held in Delhi, India, 6-9 November.
The presentation outlined a new Agrobiodiversity Index that will enable governments, private sector and other decision-makers to assess and track agrobiodiversity in food systems. Currently there is no consistent way to do this.
Find out more about the India Agrobiodiversity Congress:
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/iac2016/
IAC 2016 gathered 850 delegates from over 40 countries across the world who presented the results and stories of progress of agrobiodiversity research they are involved in.
Home-grown: Linking farmers to markets in Western KenyaTeresa Borelli
BFN Kenya describes its success in linking smallholder farmers to institutional markets in Western Kenya and in promoting African Leafy Vegetables for improved food and nutrition outcomes
Findings from a survey in western kenya to determine the soil fertility reple...Innspub Net
This document summarizes the findings of a survey conducted in Western Kenya to determine adoption rates of soil fertility replenishment technologies by farmers. The survey interviewed 223 farmers, about half of which were members of farmer groups, and evaluated adoption levels of 11 technologies. It found that inorganic fertilizers and improved legumes had the highest adoption rates, while technologies like intercropping and manure use had lower rates. Farmer group membership, education levels, and location influenced adoption levels. Bungoma county had significantly higher adoption than Busia and Vihiga counties.
A short booklet that describes how and why Bioversity International carries out research for development in agricultural and tree biodiversity. The booklet gives information about why agricultural and tree biodiversity matters for sustainable development, our strategic initiatives, where we work and our areas of scientific expertise. Find out more on www.bioversityinternational.org
"Overview: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy...ExternalEvents
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.1: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy diets"
The contribution of smallholder farmers to the Agenda 2030ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/globalsoilpartnership/en/
This presentation was presentaed during the seminar Soils & Pulses: symbiosis for life that took place at FAO HQ on 19 Apr 2016. it was made by Wafaa El Khoury and it presents The contribution of smallholder farmers to the Agenda 2030.
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.
Presentation of BFN activities at the Alacati Herb FestivalTeresa Borelli
Recent successes in BFN activities were presented at the Biodiversity for Food & Nutrition Conference organized in the framework of the Alacati Herb Festival in Turkey in March 2015.
The grocery gap: food retail outlets mapping and reorganization for promoting...ExternalEvents
The document summarizes efforts to map food access disparities and promote healthy diets through increasing access to supermarkets. A task force used GIS maps to identify areas with limited supermarket access and higher rates of diet-related diseases. This informed recommendations to approve funding for 88 new grocery stores in underserved communities, creating jobs and tax revenue while improving access for 400,000 residents. Similar public-private financing initiatives were established in several other states and nationally to systematically address gaps in healthy food access.
"Leveraging market opportunities for promoting healthy diets Gianluca Brunor...ExternalEvents
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.3: Leveraging market opportunities for promoting healthy diets"
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate cha...ExternalEvents
Agricultural biotechnology and the economics of food security and climate change mitigation presentation by "Daniel Sumner, University of California Davis, Davis, United States of America
"
Where our Food Crops Come from: A new estimation of countries’ interdependenc...CWR Project
Presentation given by CIAT/Colin K. Khoury at the side event "Where our Food Crops Come from: A new estimation of countries’ interdependence in plant genetic resources" at GB6, International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Rome, 7 October 2015
This document discusses challenges facing global agriculture and nutrition, including poor diets being a leading health risk worldwide, and farmers facing novel climates by 2050 due to climate change. It notes that three crops - wheat, rice, and maize - provide over half the world's plant-based calories, and highlights millets as nutritious and resilient but neglected crops. The remainder of the document outlines efforts in India to mainstream the production and consumption of millets, including improving cultivation practices with farmers, establishing community seed banks, developing millet products, including millets in school meals and the Public Distribution Scheme.
The Public Seed Initiative and Variety TrialsSeeds
This document discusses the Public Seed Initiative and variety trials in Hawaii. It provides information on seed programs, the protection of seeds by companies, different types of seeds, and the decline of public breeding programs. The document also discusses alternative breeding programs, artisanal community seed production, results from a Hawaii statewide seed assessment survey, goals and designs of variety trials, and examples of collaborative research trials on crops like tomatoes, lettuces, and baby watermelons.
Linking public procurement and sustainable production systems: opportunities ...FAO
This document outlines opportunities for linking public food procurement programs to sustainable agricultural production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the potential for public demand to support smallholder farmers through predictable purchases. Case studies from Niger and Senegal show purchases from farmers organizations increased productivity and farmer incomes. However, scaling up poses challenges as enabling policies, services and regulations are also needed to operationalize procurement considering production objectives. While public demand may incentivize sustainable practices, other supports are likely required. The relative size of procurement compared to total supply is also important to consider impacts and tradeoffs between objectives of price and promotion of certain farming methods.
Masiga - Enhanced Utilization of Biotechnology Research and Development Innov...CIALCA
Presentation delivered at the CIALCA international conference 'Challenges and Opportunities to the agricultural intensification of the humid highland systems of sub-Saharan Africa'. Kigali, Rwanda, October 24-27 2011.
Livestock production and climate change: towards sustainable production with ...ExternalEvents
the Produção Integrada de Sistemas Agropecuários (PISA) System in Brazil, by Paulo César F Carvalho, Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium
The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 1.1: Sustainable agriculture production and diversification for healthy diets"
Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International presentation on NOT finding the world's next superfood. This presentation was delivered at Kew Gardens on May 12th 2016 at the State of the World's Plants Symposium.
Abstract: In the last few years, superfoods such as quinoa, amaranth and goji berries have been celebrated in the international media in recognition of their rich nutrient content.
But it is not just Western consumers that can benefit from rediscovering these forgotten foods.
M. Ann Tutwiler, Director General, Bioversity International, will explain how many nutritious traditional foods, which have largely fallen off menus and research-for-development agendas in favour of a handful of staple grains, are starting to make a comeback on the plates of the world’s poorest and most malnourished populations.
Bioversity International carries out research on a diverse range of underutilized crops, and advocates for their wider use in healthy diets from sustainable food systems. This overview will include examples of how research-for-development efforts on quinoa in the High Andes and minor millets in India have helped bring diverse varieties back to the farm, the market and the plate. She will highlight how these crops are often not just nutrient-rich but also have a high potential to contribute to livelihoods. They are often also highly resilient to today’s production challenges, such as climate change.
In conclusion, M. Ann Tutwiler will outline the urgent need to identify, promote and protect these useful plants which all have the potential to be placed into a diverse basket of Super Foods when it comes to delivering food and nutrition security.
Can trade policies have co-benefits for nutrition? FAO
Can trade policies have co-benefits for nutrition? The findings of an expert consultation on trade and
nutrition, by Josef Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO.
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium/en/
Integrating gendered knowledge into banana breedingCGIAR
This presentation was given during a webinar on May 17, 2018. Graham Thiele (GBI/RTB), Jacqueline Ashby (Independent Consultant), Pricilla Marimo (Bioversity International) and Robooni Tumuhimbise (NARO) gave a total of three presentations. This is the first of these presentations, given by Pricilla Marimo and Robooni Tumuhimbise.
Find out more at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-gender-breeding-checklist/
Design elements for gender-responsive breeding: Starting points and unresolve...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Jacqueline Ashby on 21 September 2017, as part of the webinar 'Design elements for gender-responsive breeding'. The webinar was co-organized by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research and the CGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
Read more about this webinar at: http://gender.cgiar.org/webinar-design-elements-gender-responsive-breeding/
Find out about other webinars hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/webinars/
Gender-responsive breeding and product profiles - Developing gender-responsiv...CGIAR
This presentation was given by Hale Ann Tufan (Cornell University), as part of the Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the University of Canberra and co-sponsored by the University of Canberra, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on April 2-4, 2019 in Canberra, Australia.
Read more: https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/faculty-research-centres/aisc/seeds-of-change and https://gender.cgiar.org/annual-conference-2019/
Gender in the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health ...CGIAR
This poster was presented by Hazel Malapit (PIM), as part of the Gender Research Coordinators' meeting (4 December 2017), related to Annual Scientific Conference hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Gender in Agriculture for Nutrition and HealthIFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented by Hazel Malapit (A4NH / IFPRI) for the pre-Annual Scientific Conference meeting organized for the CGIAR research program gender research coordinators on 4 December.
The annual scientific conference of the CGIAR collaborative platform for gender research took place on 5-6 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
This document presents a framework for analyzing the interactions between gender, climate change, and nutrition. It discusses why considering gender and nutrition is important for climate-smart agriculture approaches. The framework examines how climate trends may impact absorptive and adaptive capacity differently for men and women due to gender differences in roles, resources, and decision-making power. It also explores how climate-smart agriculture strategies could help minimize nutrition losses and maximize gains across the food system, while closing or exacerbating gender inequalities, and provides examples of entry points for interventions that are sensitive to both gender and nutrition outcomes.
"Maintaining and Improving Nutritional Value and Food Safety along the Value ...ExternalEvents
Marie T. Ruel discusses value chains for improving nutrition and food safety. Value chains can help address problems along the production, storage, processing, distribution and consumption of foods. They allow for coordination across different actors to identify opportunities to enhance nutrient content and prevent losses. While progress has been made in certain areas, more research is still needed on implementing nutrition-sensitive value chains at scale and measuring their impact and cost-effectiveness.
Experience and guidelines for participatory varietal selection (PVS): Integra...CGIAR
This poster was presented as part of the 'gender in breeding session' of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
Experience and guidelines for participatory varietal selection (PVS): Integra...IFPRI-PIM
This poster was presented as part of the 'gender in breeding session' of the Capacity Development Workshop hosted by the CGIAR Collaborative Platform for Gender Research. The event took place on 7-8 December 2017 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where the Platform is hosted (by KIT Royal Tropical Institute).
Read more: http://gender.cgiar.org/gender_events/annual-scientific-conference-capacity-development-workshop-cgiar-collaborative-platform-gender-research/
This document outlines a gender strategy for the CRP Roots, Tubers and Bananas program. [1] It discusses how gender will be mainstreamed across the program's seven themes of research. [2] However, the centers currently have limited gender research capabilities due to a lack of dedicated staff and resources. [3] The action plan proposes investing in gender focal points, identifying areas where a gender lens can have high impact, and improving gender integration in priority setting and research.
Session 5. Kramer - Discussant on Leveraging Dedicated Supply ChainsAg4HealthNutrition
This document discusses leveraging supply chains to increase year-round availability and consumption of vegetables. It focuses on four areas: 1) increasing production through improved seeds, 2) getting harvests to local markets, 3) drying vegetables to reduce waste, and 4) demand creation activities. For each area, key questions are posed about how to scale interventions, barriers to adoption, and how changes in different parts of the supply chain may interact. The overall goal is to understand how to raise farmer income while improving access to affordable vegetables for consumers.
Nutrition and Health: Harnessing pulses for linking agriculture and nutrition...IFSD14
This document summarizes research on linking agriculture and nutrition to ensure food security in Ethiopia. It finds that while legumes play an important role in diets, challenges include persistent hunger, population growth, and climate change. Studies examined the relationship between socioeconomics, gender, and nutrition, finding that women's roles in pulse production are less valued culturally. Workshops increased knowledge of pulses' importance for productivity and nutrition. Research also found that processing techniques like soaking and germination helped retain minerals in dishes. Moving forward, the document recommends further evaluating and scaling nutrition interventions, engaging farmers, and fostering links between agriculture, nutrition, and health.
Nutrition and Health: Harnessing pulse for linking agriculture and nutrition ...IFSD14
This document summarizes research on linking agriculture and nutrition to ensure food security in Ethiopia. It finds that while legumes play an important role in diets, challenges include persistent hunger, population growth, and climate change. Studies examined the relationship between socioeconomics, gender, and nutrition, finding that women's roles in pulse production are less valued. Other research optimized pulse varieties and cultivation techniques, investigated mineral and nutrient levels in processed pulses, and developed nutrition education tools. The document advocates scaling interventions shown to improve diets through increased pulse production and consumption.
Day 1 - Harris - Gender and Ag-Nutrition Pathways and IndicatorsAg4HealthNutrition
This document discusses key indicators for measuring the relationship between agriculture and nutrition. It presents a framework showing the pathways from agricultural production to individual nutrition outcomes. Some of the key agriculture-nutrition indicators mentioned include food and diet diversity at the household and individual level, women's dietary diversity, infant and young child feeding practices, anthropometry, and biomarkers. It also stresses the importance of monitoring how programs may impact women's time use and breastfeeding. The document provides guidance on choosing appropriate indicators based on the pathways and outcomes a program aims to influence.
Dr Jennifer Kuzma's GES Center Colloquium from Feb. 5, 2019. Unfortunately, the video file for this talk was corrupted, so we offer the slides in its place.
Details at https://research.ncsu.edu/ges/event/colloquium-2019-02-05/
This document discusses trends driving innovation in the nutrition industry. There are emerging demographic trends like an aging population and millennials, a public link between diet and disease, and adoption of transparency standards. New healthy ingredients are being discovered. Innovation occurs at the intersection of science/technology trends, understanding consumer needs, and business models. Millennials are passionate about food heritage and authenticity. Surveys show growing concerns about food price, composition, and ethics. Simple, local, and fresh foods are in demand. Chronic diseases account for most global deaths and healthcare costs. These trends present opportunities for functional foods and delivery systems using ingredients like probiotics and high pressure processing.
Bringing Agriculture, Nutrition and Extension Together Using a Gender LensINGENAES
Andrea Bohn
University of Illinois
March 23, 2016
INGENAES recognizes that women are disproportionally affected by hunger and malnutrition, and addresses gender equity to achieve better agricultural and nutrition outcomes. There are the four pillars of food security based on the role of extension including availability, access, utilization, and stability.
New Strategies in Communicating Biotechnology Topics to Concerned ConsumersUniversity of Florida
July 29, 2015 seminar at Monsanto Company, discussing what has been learned from teaching concepts in biotechnology to farmers, dietitians and scientists.
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The cost of information acquisition by natural selection
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photon flux threshold of approximately 2 × 10−8 photons cm−2
s
−1
. The X-ray sources exhibit a highly concentrated spatial distribution,
with 1075 sources located within the central 1 arcmin. We have successfully detected X-ray emissions from 126 out of the 166 known
massive stars of the cluster, and we have collected over 71 000 photons from the magnetar CXO J164710.20-455217.
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1. Why isn’t “gender” just about
impact?
Jacqueline Ashby, Senior Advisor, CGIAR Consortium.
Transformational gender approaches
in legume research and development
Sustainable Grain Legume Systems for Food, Income and
Nutritional Security in a Rapidly Changing Climate.
2 March, 2016
2. Attention to gender is concentrated in the late
stages of product development: e.g. breeding cycle
End User
Profiling
Preference Capture
and Trait Discovery
Phenotyping
Method
Development
Population Screening/
Material selection
End User
Testing
Value Chain &
Market
Development
GENDER ANALYSIS Product
Adoption
and
Impact
KNOWLEDGE
GAP
3. KNOWLEDGE GAP
We still lack a comprehensive picture of gender-
differentiated preferences for varietal traits and
their relative importance
Case studies of localized preferences:
what are widespread preferences versus
cultural- or location-specific ones?
Lists of gender-differentiated preferences:
• Likely impact? E.g. what is the likely
impact on welfare of labor saved by a
faster cooking bean?
• Relative importance?
• How do male or female users make trade-
offs between preferred traits?
• Priorities?
4. BACKGROUND TO THE KNOWLEDGE GAP :
Revolution in Future Breeding and Biotech Innovation
ABI 3730
• Roche 454
• Illumina
• SOLiD (Life
Technologies)
• Helicos
• Pacific
Biosciences
• Roche 454
• Illumina
• SOLiD (Life
Technologies)
• Helicos
• Pacific Biosciences
• Oxford Nanopore
(Illumina)
• Ion Torrent
.01 Corn genome
equivalents per year
0.2 - 0.4 Corn genome
equivalents per day
2001-2007 2007-2014 2014-2020
Explosion of
new options
.01 Corn genome
equivalents per
year
.01 Corn genome
equivalents per
year
.01 Corn genome
equivalents per year
0.2 - 0.4 Corn genome
equivalents per day.01 Corn genome
equivalents per
year
.01 Corn genome
equivalents per
year
Hundreds of
thousands of genes
per year
Thousands of
genes per year
Rate of novel gene & allele discovery
Genome per
decade
Genome per
year
>100 genomes
per day
Genome per
day
Rate of crop genome sequence production
Millions of genes
per year
Tens of millions of
genes per year
Greater
Yield Gains
5. Genes provide the foundation of new products for farmers: but what are the
priority, most gender-responsive products?
Expanding opportunities to target products
more precisely to increase gender relevance
Quality – taste, texture,
cooking time etc.
Storage
Yield
Tolerance to drought
Flowering time?
Low soil P tolerance?
High sugar content?
Genes Protein Trait Product
6. Diversity
- Male and female preferences
overlap
- Women with different resource
endowments don’t have the same
preferences
Only differentiating women’s
preferences from men’s is
misleading
Private enterprise confronts the
diversity challenge by prioritizing
market segments (customers),
profiling and targeting them
Joint
7. Inequality
Gender inequality
makes poverty worse.
Technology choice is
constrained by who
controls resources
e.g who controls the
use of time freed up
by labor-saving
innovations ?
Joint
8. Gaining more control over resources:
e.g. co-development of products with men and
women end users, Honduras case
Participatory plant breeding
(PPB) and varietal selection
(PVS)
• Can enhance women’s status
and control over resources
• Enables end-users to
contribute actively to early
stages of product development
• This speeds up adoption
• And contributes to
empowerment
9. Influential feedback from gender analysis to the
early stages of product development requires
harmonization of methods and approach
Adoption and Marketing Surveys:
share standard modules for collecting sex-
disaggregated data so these data can be
pooled for end-user profiling
Harmonize PVS and PPB approaches to
inform preference capture: ensure data are
easy to compare or pool.
Ex-ante impact analysis, choice
experiments: estimate likely pay-off to
different traits; inform prioritization
10. Opportunities for social & gender analysis
End User
Profiling
Preference Capture
and Trait Discovery
Phenotyping
Method
Development
Population Screening/
Material selection
End User
Testing
Value Chain &
Market
Development
GENDER ANALYSIS Product
Adoption
and
Impact
GENDER
ANALYSIS:
Editor's Notes
We know that difference in how men and women prioritize the same varietal trait is pervasive. There are also traits valued by women that men don’t consider and vice versa.