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Gender, Agriculture, and Nutrition Linkages TOPS Food Security Meeting Maputo September 2011 Nutrition and GDP Nutrition and food consumption issues are critical to sustainably reduce poverty and decrease maternal and child mortality. Up to 3% GDP LOSSES due to undernutrition World Bank 2006 2 What Supports Child Nutrition? Access to food Improved maternal and child-care practices Access to water/ sanitation /hygiene and basic health services Agriculture and Nutrition Pathways Sold at market Non-food cash crops Livestock, fish, nontimber forest products Food crops Health Care Income Agricultural processing Nutritional status Food Meal preparation Dietary Intake Kept for household Assets & Resources International Center for Research on Women Human Capital NUTRITION-SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE REACH, Sierra Leone PRINCIPLES • Agriculture affects nutrition outcomes indirectly It works through effects on the underlying causes of undernutrition: access to food and food production, health and care, and most directly through the effects of income and prices on household food security • Nutrition is both an input for and an outcome of agricultural productivity • The appropriate actions will be identified through an analysis of determinants of food insecurity/ undernutrition • Plan multisectorally and implement sectorally What is USAID doing to link Agriculture and Nutrition? Feed the Future Agriculture Programs Improved access to diverse and quality foods Global Health Initiative Nutrition Improved nutrition-related behaviors including hygiene Health Services Improved utilization of maternal and child health and nutrition services 7 Key Linkages: Gender, Nutrition, and Agriculture Focus on women because of their role as care givers, producers, processors of food Nutrition and health protocols: Customs detrimental to child health and development Gender approach: involving men Empowerment of women with knowledge and skills to prevent or reverse malnutrition, capacity to care for their children, access to technical resources to improve food production and/or food processing. • Increase year-round supply of nutrient rich foods • Address gaps in sector-specific efforts, such as production or income gains that fail to translate into improved nutritional status. • Reduce women’s resource constraints by improving their access to productive technologies such as seeds and extension services; • Identify characteristics of different crop varieties that may be preferred more by men or women • Provide extension support to enhance uptake of the preferred varieties • Focus on developing technologies that increase productivity in parts of the food chain that fall largely within women’s domain Women’s Role Insight Interventions Food producer Women and men equally contribute to household food supply and availability •women’s participation in nutrition-oriented agricultural technology development • enhancing production systems associated with women • addressing production and post-production constraints Income-earning farmers Women significantly (re)invest their income in food and nutrition •Gender-responsive market chain development •agri-food value chain development to include nutrition • entrepreneurship and business development for high-nutrition value chains Health/nutrition caretakers Women are key decisionmakers and stewards of household food and nutrition security •Introducing agri-food strategies within broader nutrition interventions Nutritionally vulnerable group Women’s nutritional status determines their productive and reproductive roles, and affects intra-household nutrition/health •developing agriculture innovations targeting nutritional issues affecting women • Introducing strategies for enhanced access to healthcare and education services As partners with men Household and community dynamics require social learning and collective action by men and women Understanding and overcoming social norms and political economies of agri-nutrition systems