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Transcript of EFARD Business and Technical Meeting 2015 - Nutrition
The European Landscape on
Agriculture, Nutrition and Food
Security in the South: What role for
EFARD?
Judith Francis
Jouairyatou Wague
On Agricultural Research for
Development
Background
2013: EFARD identified food and nutrition security as one of the
four central subjects of interest
2014: EFARD Annual Meeting on nutrition and health related to
ARD
Key statistics:
795 million people suffering from hunger
2 billion people having a key micronutrient deficiences
Food Health
Objectives
• Identify EFARD capacities and opportunities for
action in strengthening the agriculture-nutrition
link : How European research contributes to food
and nutrition security?
• Making knowledge available among EFARD
constituency
The discussion paper
Methodology
Characterise European research on nutrition
agriculture – nutrition link
Literature review:
- Organisations of EFARD members and collaborators
- Databases to access research projects, programmes
- Selection of documents of interest:
reference to agriculture-nutrition
involvement of European organisations
international nutrition initiatives including agriculture
Results
European Union
- Majority of work targets African countries
- Focus on women and children
- Interventions linked to political commitment, governance and
capacity building
- Comments:
Need to include nutritionnal impact in expected results of call for
proposals for H2020 programme related to agriculture-nutrition
nexus.
Results
European Union development partners
Ministries of the European member countries and Federal
agencies for development aid
They provide support and are involved in the funding and
implementation of nutrition-related programmes.
Contemporary topic: green growth
environmentSustainabledevelopment
agriculturenutrition
Results
Research centres and universities
- General and specific research work on agriculture linked tonutrition
- Agrobiodiversity and vegetable gardens are increasingly takingcentre stage
- Re geographic spread of the interventions - some countriesbenefit from numerous programmes.
- Comments
Many programmes and projects coming from Western Europeanresearch centres and universities but few from Eastern Europe does not mean that they do not exist.
Need references to key words on nutrition in project titles
Results
European Civil Society Organisations
- NGO and FO: Programmes in the field of agro-ecology,
promotion of biodiversity, sustainable practices, etc. most of
the time for small producers.
- Private Sector: involved in food processing, e.g. micronutrient
fortification. Allows them to target a broad section of the
population.
- Comments:
Private sector +++ for value chain development & enhancing
marketing/production of nutrient dense food. Needs public sector
oversight in terms of standards & regulatory monitoring.
Discussion
- Analyses of previous programmes and projects on ag-nutrition
nexus have not necessarily shown evidence of impact
question of assessment, indicators, nutrition goal.
- Is including nutrition in ag projects only a fad? e.g. How is the
nutrient composition of foods changing under various
production systems and over time?
- Women of child bearing age most impacted (anemia, zinc,
under-weight). How is ag performance impacted?
- Focus is on rural areas; should urban consumers and
marginalised populations be considered?
Conclusion
- EC is committed to improving nutrition outcomes.
- European organisations are involved in research to strengthenthe agriculture-nutrition link. Desired nutrition outcomes andimpact pathways should be clear.
- Collaboration should be extended between differentstakeholders (multi-sector approach) and disciplines (multi-disciplinary approach) EFARD can play a major role in:
- promoting a more integrated R&I approach for improvingnutrition outcomes
- identifying research gaps – e.g. need for tracking micronutrientcomposition of foods – where is the problem;production/processing/consumption?
- Idenntifying indicators for measuring impact.