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2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
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Agriculture to Nutrition (ATONU): Nutrition-sensitive interventions
within chicken value chains
Bertha Mkandawire Munthali
http//fanrpan/projects/atonu
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
OUTLINE
• Introduction
• About ATONU
• Fighting malnutrition
• Making an impact
• ATONU entry points in chicken value chains- the Pathways
• ATONU expected NSI outcomes • ATONU summary of NSI activities
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
About ATONU
• Improving Nutrition Outcomes through Optimized Agricultural Investments Project.
• The project answers the question of what agriculture projects and programs can do to deliver positive nutrition outcomes/ or address malnutrition
• ATONU works with existing agricultural development projects and programmes
• Identify and design nutrition-sensitive interventions to deliver positive nutrition outcomes
• Assess and collect evidence of the impact of interventions
• Provide technical assistance to ensure effectiveness of nutrition-sensitive interventions in agriculture programmes
Nutritional Status
Diverse Diets Low Burden of
Infectious Diseases
Food access Care practices Safe and hygienic environment
Diverse food production on the farm - Chicken, eggs, vegetables
Chicken value chain
Income: from the sale of
chickens, eggs and
vegetables
SBCC: Nutrition and hygiene education
Women’s empowerment
Adapted from Herforth and Billard 2015
Mitigate health risks
introduced by agriculture
production i.e. chicken
ATONU-ACGG IMPACT PATHWAYS
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
Provision of nutrition education to families to improve food choices,
health seeking behaviours and child care
Diverse food production on the farm- Chicken, eggs, vegetables and other foods. Women empowered for Income use to purchase nutritious food. Food availability assessments
Promotion of hygiene and sanitation in the production of
agriculture products- chickens and vegetables
Promotion of dietary diversity (sufficient, nutritious, safe) –
through IYCN
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Targeted Outcomes Improved
consumption of
chickens and
eggs at household
level
Increased consumption of diverse nutritious diets
Enhanced Women’s
urgency for making
household income
expenditure decisions to
improve diets and health
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
ATONU Approach to Engaging Households
1. Group sessions 2. Community theatre for nutrition behavior change 3. Home visits 4. Process monitoring
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
ATONU Entry Points into the Value Chains
1. Production 2. Processing 3. Utilization
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
1. Improved chicken strains
for increased household
consumption of meat and
eggs
2. Production of vegetables
for increased HH access
to diverse diets
3. Food safety and hygiene
measures in the
production of chickens
and vegetables to avoid
faecal contamination
which causes disease
Production
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Processing
1. Processing of vegetables to increase year round accessibility and availability in the family diet
2. Processing of chicken meat and eggs in infant feeding
3. Hygiene and sanitation in vegetable processing and chicken handling
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
Utilisation 1. Nutrition knowledge on utilization of
chicken meat, eggs and vegetables
and other foods in infant diets and
family meals
2. Hygiene and sanitation education in
food preparation and handling
3. Food safety measures in preparing
and consuming food
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I.
Nutrition and hygiene
education care group
II.
Women empowerment
for income decision
making
III.
Vegetable
production
IV.
Capacity building
to deliver nutrition
actions in
agriculture
• Optimal diets in Maternal
Infant and Young Child
Feeding (MIYCF)
• MIYCF care group
model learning
sessions on nutrition
education, hygiene and
sanitation
• Hygiene in food
processing, preparation
and handling
• Community mobilization
and sensitization on
gender
• Men sensitization on
child and maternal
nutrition
• Joint financial planning
and budgeting lessons
• Alternative energy and
time saving
technologies
• Vegetable
production
• Vegetables in
family meals
• Processing for
preservation
• Storage
• Utilization
• Trainings
• BCC material
adaptation for
nutrition in
Agriculture
Rigorous evaluation of the nutrition-sensitive interventions
Summary of action areas to achieve nutrition outcomes
II.
Theatre for behavior
change
• Mobilization of
communities to take
action on nutrition at
household level
• Advocating for change in
behaviors that influence
nutrition
• To promote nutrition
through men engagement
and participation
• To identify areas that
would promote or hinder
nutrition and address
them
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
EATING FOR HEALTH, NOT FOR HUNGER
2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Durban, South Africa 🁢 15-17 August 2017
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