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Global Hunger Today: Challenges and Solutions
Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages in Ethiopia: Lessons from the AgriDietProject
Nick Chisholm and colleagues, UCC
AgriDiet Project - July 2017
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AgriDiet
Objective – a better understanding of the linkages between agriculture and nutrition
1. 800 households randomly surveyed in selected Ethiopian lowland and midland zones in 2014
2. 200 mother and child households selected for anthropometric & biomarker nutrition tests
3. Child stunting rates about 45% (pre-harvest)
4. 72% of mothers deficient in zinc and 21% iron (ferritin), with higher deficiency rates in lowlands
AgriDiet Project - July 2017
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Four main points
• Salient characteristics of Ethiopian smallholder agriculture & food security situation
• What can we say about the linkage between agriculture, food security and nutrition?
• Are there better ways to measure agriculture-nutrition linkages?
• Multi-sectoral collaboration to improve nutrition – how?
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Most Households Experience Food Shortage: Oromia
38.4%
27.9%
28.9%
4.9%
no shortage
one month shortage
2 to 3 months shortage
more than 4 months shortage
• 61.6% of households experience food shortage of at least one month per year
• Households on average run out of food for 1.2 months per year
• Female headed households had more months of food shortage than their male counterparts
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Diet dominated by cereals: TigrayAverage consumption of food groups, at low season (by monetary value)
72.4%
12.3%
3.9%
0.3% 1.5% 0.9% 5.6% 3.3%
Cereals
Pulses and oilseeds
Vegetables
Fruits
Beef
Egg
Milk and milk products
Oil
Food accounts for 77% of total household expenditureAnimal based foods = 8% of total food expenditureFruit and veg = 4.2% of food expenditure
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Tigray: All indicators show significant seasonal differences in food security
5.9
5.8
5.75
5.8
5.85
5.9
5.95
HDDS (High s.) HDDS (Low s.)
31.38
30.44
29.5
30
30.5
31
31.5
FCS (High s.) FCS (Low s.)
3.33
4.21
0
1
2
3
4
5
HFIAS (High s.) HFIAS (Low s.)
20.10
21.25
19.50
20.00
20.50
21.00
21.50
CSI (High s.) CSI (Low s.)
Coping Strategy IndexHousehold Food Insecurity Access Scale
Household Dietary Diversity ScoreFood Consumption Score
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Higher production diversity associated with higher dietary diversity
82.5% of households in Oromia with lower dietary diversity produced three or less types of crops in a year
Households with higher diet diversity produced >4 crop types
Econometric analysis indicated dietary diversity of households positively and significantly associated with:
number of crops grown
number of livestock owned
size of cultivated land
cooperative membership and
educational status of household head
Dietary diversity negatively associated with household size
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Agriculture to nutrition framework
AgriDiet Project - July 2017
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Correlations of key agricultural variables with HFCS & Maternal Zinc
-0.3
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
Total FarmDiversity
CropProduction
CropDiversity
LivestockUnits
LivestockDiversity
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HFCS
Maternal Zinc
AgriDiet Project - July 2017
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Influence of variable categories on key food and nutrition indicators
• Meat & fruit/veg quantity consumed = strong +ve influence on zinc & iron
• Agricultural variables account for >20% ferritin & >10% zinc variance
• Water quality & assets have strong +veinfluence on zinc & iron
• Total & cash crop area +ve for FCS & HDDS but –ve for zinc & iron
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Key findings
1. Agriculture linkages to food security and nutrition outcomes can be strong, explaining some 10-20% of the variance of selected indicators in our models
2. The influence of some key variables on micronutrient outcomes may be opposite to their influence on standard food security indicators
3. Diversity of crops, livestock or even diets, may not always lead to better nutritional outcomes, particularly where quantities are small - but also need to note importance of non-agricultural factors (WASH etc)
4. Need better metrics and methodologies for measuring food security and nutrition outcomes
AgriDiet Project - July 2017
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Nutrient Deficit Score (NDS)
1. Captures typical food intake by households over
previous week/month and seasonal changes
2. Calculates implied macro and micronutrient intakes
using food composition tables
3. Compares actual intakes to recommended WHO
intake by age and gender, to calculate household
nutrient gaps
4. Considers the relative importance of each nutrient to
calculate a weighted household nutrient deficit score (eg 40% calories, 30% protein, 15% iron and 15% VitA)
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Nutrient GapsBreaking down the NDS into average nutrient gaps for two different agro-ecological zones in Tanzania
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Nutrient GapsDietary diversity in Arusha better than in Singida, but lower
quantities consumed = larger nutrient deficit gaps in Arusha
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Cross-sectoral collaboration -Stakeholder workshops
Total of 177 stakeholders who work in agriculture, nutrition, health, planning, finance, education, water and sanitation and gender.
Aims:
Bring together actors from different sectors
Encourage the use of the generated research to influence policy and programmes
Share information and experiences and promote good practice
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Barriers to co-ordination
Nutrition is still viewed as a food security or emergency issue.
Lack of guidance on HOW to work across sectors.
No dedicated space where organisations and individuals could come together to share knowledge, access peer to peer support, network and collaborate across sectors.
“ Those working within agriculture, their focus is on yields and production for income, not on nutrition.”
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4 District level workshopsHealth and Agriculture Extension Workers, Nutrition Officers, Local Government, Planning Department, NGOs, CSOs, Researchers.
Value in collaboration is acknowledged.In practice, district government and extension still working in silos.More collaboration between NGOs.
Initiatives generally targeted at either nutrition OR agriculture.Some examples (OFSP), but largely NGO driven
Implementation of National Nutrition Strategies not happening at District level.Tanzania – District Nutrition officers in place.
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Barriers to co-ordination
Planning happens in isolation.
Policies are generally market-orientated rather than nutrition focused.
Lack of communication and guidance from the National level.E.g. Nutrition Officers
Capacity is an issue, both financial and human. The budget allocated to nutrition is inadequate, and in Tanzania funds are often not released at all.
“ National policies are moving this way with large-scale commercial farming – sisal and sugar etc and staple cereals but little on ensuring a diverse diet.”
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Recommended Actions Decision makers need to be involved in these discussions and workshops, and experts who attend
workshops need to go back and advocate to their decision makers.
An inventory of programmes and implementers to improve coordination and avoidduplication of efforts.
Clear guidelines are needed on HOW to collaborate between sectors.
Common indicators or targets are required across sectors.
Regular training of staff on nutrition issues, and why agriculture is important and how it can helpaddress undernutrition is required.
Create a space where organisations and individuals could come together to share knowledge, accesspeer to peer support, network and collaborate across sectors.