This presentation is part of the

Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange

(AgN-GLEE) held in Guatemala City, Guatemala from March 5-7, 2013.

For additional presentations and related event materials, visit: http://spring-nutrition.org/agnglee-lac

AgN-GLEE Landscape Analysis

Preliminary Findings from

3 LAC and 12 African FTF Focus Countries

Background of Landscape Analysis

• Part of Agriculture-Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE)

• Task: to review USAID-supported FTF programs and map current interventions and pathways linking agriculture and nutrition

• This presentation: – Methodology – Findings from Phase one and two – Thoughts for discussion

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Methodology and approach

• Desk review of FTF multi-year strategy and project documents

• Key informant interviews with FTF Points of Contact • Continuous communications via emails • Data collection and review tools • Pathways and Principles • Not an evaluation

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Timeline

Technical consultations Aug 21 , Sep 6

Document Collection Sep 5

LA team formed Sep 17

12 African Country profiles Dec 3 – Dec 4

3 LAC country profiles Feb 28

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Data Collection

Countries No. documents consulted No. people interviewed

AFRICA 98 23

Guatemala 9 4 Haiti 6 3 Honduras 8

TOTAL 121 30

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Current Status of Key FTF Ag-Nutr Projects

Countries To be awarded <1yr implementation >1yr implementation

Guatemala X

Haiti X X

Honduras X X

Ethiopia X X

Ghana X X

Kenya X X

Liberia X

Malawi X X

Mali X X

Mozambique X X

Rwanda X

Senegal X

Tanzania X

Uganda X X X

Zambia X X

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Implementation Strategy

Countries Flagship Co-location Retro-fitting

Guatemala X

Haiti X (X) X

Honduras X

Ethiopia X X

Ghana X (X)

Kenya X X X

Liberia X X

Malawi X

Mali (X)

Mozambique X X

Rwanda X

Senegal X X

Tanzania X

Uganda X X

Zambia X

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FTF Value Chains

Countries Staple/ Roots

Horticulture Legume/ nuts

Animal source

Cash crop

(Bio-) fortification

Indigenous/ local

Guatemala X X

Haiti X X X X

Honduras X X X X X

Ethiopia X X X X X X

Ghana X X X

Kenya X X X X X (X)

Liberia X (X) X X X

Malawi X X X

Mali X X X

Mozambique X X

Rwanda X X X X

Senegal X (X) (X) X (X)

Tanzania X (X) X X

Uganda X (X) X (X) X (X)

Zambia X X X X

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FTF Value Chains

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Staple / Horticulture Legume / Animal Cash Crop (Bio-) Indigenous / Roots Nuts Source Fortification Local

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Factors in FTF Value Chain Selection

Countries Nutrition impact

Income Potential

Gender Gov’t/ donor

Food security

Number of farmers

Vulnerable Population

Guatemala X X X X

Haiti X X X

Honduras X X X X X X

Ethiopia X X X X

Ghana X X X X

Kenya (X) X X

Liberia X X X X

Malawi X X X

Mali X (X) X X

Mozambique X X X X

Rwanda (X) X (X) X X

Senegal (X) X X X

Tanzania (X) X X X X

Uganda X X X X X

Zambia X X X

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Factors in FTF Value Chain Selection

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Nutrition Income Gender Govt / Food Number of Vulnerable Impact Potenial Donor Security Farmers Population

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Agriculture-Nutrition Pathways

• Own production food consumption • Income food purchase • Income healthcare purchase • Food prices food purchase • Women’s time use care capacity • Women’s workload maternal energy use • Women’s control of income resource allocation

Ref: Stuart Gillespie, Jody Harris, and Suneetha Kadiyala, The Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India, What Do We Know? IFPRI Discussion Paper 01187, June 2012

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Explicit/Implicit Pathways

Countries Production-consumption

Income -food

Income -health

Price -food

Women’s time

Women’s workload

Women’s income

Guatemala X X X X X

Haiti X X X X

Honduras X X X X X X

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Explicit/Implicit Pathways

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Production - Income- Income- Food price - Women's Women's Women's Consumption Food Health Food Time Workload Income

purchase purchase purchase

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Key Principles

Themes in Africa

• Explicit nutrition objectives/Indicators

• Context assessment

• Targeting

• Access to productive resources and markets

• Improved post-harvest storage and processing

• Increase Household income

• Nutrition education – BCC

• Gender

• Stakeholder coordination

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Principles in LAC

• Value chain selection • Targeting • Coordination • Market access • Nutrition education –BCC

• Empowering women

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Observations

• Targeting beneficiaries – Vulnerability – Gender – Coverage

• Women’s constraints/do no harm

• BCC linkage to all aspects of the pathways and value chains

• Intermediate steps

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Behavior Change in FTF

Preparation Intra-household Allocation

BCC

Storage/ processing

Production

Nutrition

Market

Income

Purchase/ demand

Consumption

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Field-Identified Challenges

• Capacities – staff, time, skills, data, information

• Funding

• Coordination and communication – partners, projects, within the Mission

• Complex situation

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Considerations

• More diverse and nutrient-dense value chains selected and implemented at scale

• Ensure better beneficiary overlap between value chains and direct nutrition activities

• Preparing and Involving the farmers with different levels of readiness in value chain activities

• Consumption and access barrier analysis

• BCC should be tied to all links along the pathways and value chains

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Considerations (cont’d)

• Indicators that measure intermediate steps along the pathways

• The impact of value chain interventions on women’s time, work load and abilities to control resources

• Guidelines and incentives for projects and offices to coordinate

• Close collaboration between agriculture/economic growth and direct health/nutrition activities is a must! – Food safety and WASH/Hygiene

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FTF Nutrition Indicators: Benefits of Integration

Impact % of stunted children under 5 years of age * % of wasted children under 5 years of age * % of underweight women * % of underweight children under 5 years of age * % of households with moderate or severe hunger +

Outcome % of exclusive breastfeeding of children under 6 mo + % of anemia among women of reproductive age + No. of health facilities capable of managing acute undernutrition % of anemia among children 6-59 mo % of children 6-23 mo receiving a MAD + Women’s dietary diversity * % of national budget allocated to nutrition

Output No. of people trained in child health and nutrition by US-support programs No. of children under 5 reached by USG Nutrition Programs

No. of children under 5 received Vitamin A from US-support programs

Feed the Future Indicator Handbook: Definition Sheets Updated April 4, 201224

% of stunted children under 5 years of age * % of wasted children under 5 years of age * % of underweight women ? % of underweight children under 5 years of age % of households with moderate or severe hunger *

% of exclusive breastfeeding of children under 6 mo * % of anemia among women of reproductive age * No. of health facilities to manage acute undernutrition % of anemia among children 6-59 mo * % of children 6-23 receiving a MAD * Women’s dietary diversity * % of national budget allocated to nutrition

No. of people trained in child health and nutrition No. of children under 5 reached by USG-Nutrition Programs

No. of children under 5 received Vitamin A

FTF Nutrition Indicators: Benefits of Integration

Impact

Outcome

Output

Feed the Future Indicator Handbook: Definition Sheets Updated April 4, 201225

FTF Nutrition Indicators: Benefits of Integration

Agriculture

% of households with moderate or severe hunger * % of children 6-23 receiving a MAD *

(4) Women’s dietary diversity * % of national budget allocated to nutrition % of exclusive breastfeeding of children under 6 mo *

No. of health facilities to manage acute undernutrition Nutrition No. of people trained in child health and nutrition (5)

No. of children under 5 received Vitamin A No. of children under 5 reached by USG-nutrition programs

% of stunted children under 5 years of age*

% of wasted children under 5 years of age*

% of underweight women * Integration (6) % of underweight children under 5 years of age *

% of anemia among women of reproductive age *

% of anemia among children 6-59 mo *

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Strategy Nutrition Indicators

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Stunting Child MAD Maternal Hunger Child Anemia Women's DD Anemia

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Landscape Analysis Constraints

• Access to documents • Incomplete and out of date documents

• Information on actual implementation • Definition of FTF ag-nutr program • Mission staff turn-over

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Deliverables and Next Steps

• Country profiles and your feedback • Presentations – cross country findings

– Dec 10 – 12 African focus countries – March 5 – 7 LAC + African focus countries – March 19-21 Asian + LAC + African Focus countries

• Final report combining findings from two phases of review and analysis on 19 FTF countries

• Best practice briefs – Senegal – African countries – Guatemala + Hondurans – Bangladesh + Nepal

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Landscape Analysis Team

Document Review and Analysis Lidan Du Alyssa Klein (photo credit) Aaron Buchsbaum Jody Harris

Technical advisors Anna Herforth Anu Narayan Marie Ruel

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Thank you !

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Additional Slides

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Value Chain Details – Full List Countries Staple

/roots Horticulture Legume/

nuts Animal source

Cash crop

(Bio-) fortification

Indigenous Context -specific

Ethiopia Maize, wheat, vegetable, pulses, sesame/chickpea, meat and live animal, dairy, honey, coffee

Ghana Maize, rice, soy, fish

Kenya Maize, cassava, millet/sorghum, sweet/Irish potato, vegetable, banana, mango, passion fruit, beans, legume, cowpea, groundnuts, green grams, pigeon peas, dairy, livestock, flowers

Liberia Rice, cassava, other roots and tubers, vegetables, horticulture, poultry, goats, cocoa

Malawi Rice, beans, groundnuts, pigeon peas, soy, fish, dairy

Mali Sorghum/millet, rice, vegetable, livestock/dairy

Mozambique Fresh fruits, pulses, oilseeds, cashew

Rwanda Maize, beans, livestock (potentially pineapple, cassava, rice, coffee, pyrethrum, dairy)

Senegal Maize, millet/sorghum, rice (some horticulture, native food and iron-rich seeds; maybe livestock)

Tanzania Maize, rice, horticulture, vegetables, flowers and spices

Uganda Maize, bean, coffee, & sub-district-specific plants and livestock

Zambia Maize, horticulture, groundnut, soy, sunflower

Guatemala Coffee and horticulture

Haiti Rice, maize, beans, plantains, cocoa, mango

Honduras Corn, beans, lots of exotic and indigenous fruits and vegetables (price conscious), chicken &pigs, tailoring, juice and handicrafts

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Indicators

Required: o Prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of age o Prevalence of stunted children under 5 years of age o Prevalence of wasted children under 5 years of age o Prevalence of underweight women

Required-If-Applicable: o Prevalence of households with moderate to severe hunger o Women’s dietary diversity o Percent of children 6 to 23 months old that received a minimum acceptablo Prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding under 6 months o Prevalence of anemia among women of reproductive age

e diet

REF: http://www.feedthefuture.gov/sites/default/files/resource/files/ftf_monitoringevalfaqs_feb2012.pdf

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