Improved nutrition in Zambia – the role of agricultural research

1. Agriculture
for Improved
Nutrition & Health
CGIAR Research Program 4
Proposal submitted by:
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI
ILRI
BIOVERSITY
CIAT
CIMMYT
CIP
ICARDA
ICRAF
ICRISAT
IITA
IWMI
WORLDFISH

2. CRP4 Conceptual Framework
Health
1. Enhancing 3. Prevention &
CRP4’s strategic goal:
Nutrition along 4. Integrated Control of Ag-
the Value Chain Programs and Policies Associated
Accelerate progress in improving the nutrition and
Diseases
Nutrition
health of poor people by leveraging agriculture and
2. Bio-
enhancing the synergies in joint efforts between
fortification
Agriculture
agriculture, health and nutrition
Social Behavior Change and
Communications
All components
Improved
Increased Decreased risk Increased Increased
availability, labor knowledge
access, intake of AAD income and
productivity of nutrition,
of nutritious, gender equity
food safety
safe foods
RESULT: Improved nutrition and health, especially among women and young children

3. Program Objectives
GENERATE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGIES
• To Improve nutritional quality & safety of foods along the value chain (Comp. 1,2,3)
• Control zoonotic, food- or water-borne and occupational diseases (Comp. 3)
DEVELOP, TEST, RELEASE
• A variety of biofortified foods (Comp. 1, 2)
• Other nutrient-rich foods (e.g. fortified, processed) that are accessible by the poor (Comp. 1)
DEVELOP METHODS AND TOOLS TO
• Evaluate complex multi-sectoral programs and policies (Comp. 1-4)
• Integrate nutrition and health into agriculture programs and policies (Comp. 1-4)
• Improve effectiveness, efficiency and timeliness of surveillance and monitoring systems (Comp. 3)
PROVIDE URGENTLY NEEDED EVIDENCE
• Agriculture is a powerful tool to improve nutrition and health

4. Initial Research Priorities
NUTRITIONAL VALUE CHAINS
• overall framework and assessment of opportunities for different food
systems
• co-develop specific value chain opportunities with key actors
BIO-FORTIFICATION
• continue bio-fortified crop development and evaluation
• enhance spillovers - new countries and commercial value chains
AGRICULTURE-ASSOCIATED DISEASES
• aflatoxin risks and their mitigation
• prioritization of food safety and zoonotic risks and their mitigation and
trade-offs in intensifying production systems and evolving value chains
INTEGRATED PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
• continue to strengthen program evaluation with new cross-sectoral metrics
and approaches
• cross-sectoral priorities and policies with key partners in SSA and South Asia

5. Program Impact Pathways
Outputs Research Development
• Biofortified and diverse Outcomes Outcomes
nutrient-rich foods
available and accessible to
the poor 1. VALUE CHAINS: Value chains that
• Knowledge and
technologies to improve
• Producers
• Chain agents
provide more
nutritious Impacts
quality and safety of foods • Media and consumer group and safer food
• Regulators Improved
Implementers
along value chains
developed nutrition and
• Better, more cost-effective health,
integrated ANH program especially
models and capacity 2. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: Better integrated among women
strengthened • Development program agriculture, and young
• Strong evidence of role of implementers (gov’t , NGOs ) nutrition and
• Public health program
children
integrated ANH programs health programs
in improving health and implementers
nutrition
• Good practices in
integrated ANH
policymaking applied 3. POLICY:
Enablers
Better cross-
• Cross sectoral work
• Policymakers and investors
sectoral policy,
incentivized • Inter-gov’t agencies
regulation and
• Capacity for joint investment
policymaking strengthened

6. Partnerships
PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY
Developed during inception phase (stakeholder mapping, landscape analysis, roadmap, plan
of action, monitoring and tracking system; partnership engagement and
development process)
PRINCIPLES
Value addition, shared goals, mutual accountability, respect, guidelines for communication
ENABLERS VALUE CHAIN ACTORS &
Policy/decision makers, e.g. inter-
gov’t, gov’t, international, regional, REPRESENTATIVES
subregional, civil society, etc. Private sector, public/private
initiatives, associations
DEVELOPMENT and groups RESEARCH PARTNERS
IMPLEMENTERS International and national
Gov’t, UN, NGOs, civil society, farmers academic, research institutions
groups

7. What is New
NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM RESEARCH
• Bringing together CGIAR expertise in agricultural policies,
institutions and technologies for nutrition and health impacts
• Engagement with and support to private sector and value chain
actors in R&D for nutritional quality and food safety
• Assess livelihood tradeoffs for the poor from a risk rather than
hazard perspective
• Pro-active engagement with health, social development and
other sectors
• Different metrics and assessment methods for joint agri-health
assessments