{"title":"Food value chains for nutrition.","authors":"Summer Allen, M. Maestre, A. Gelli","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0027","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter focuses on understanding the supply and demand aspects of food value chains and their relationship to nutrition using a food-systems perspective. It considers the collaborative roles of value chain actors, including producers, consumers, organizations, businesses, and the public sector. Finally, the chapter provides specific examples of interventions that have strived to put food value chains to work for nutrition and the lessons learned.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125509288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling India's Malnutrition dilemma - a path toward nutrition-sensitive agriculture.","authors":"Prabhu Pingali Prabhu Pingali, M. Abraham","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0178","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract\u0000 This chapter makes the case for India to shift to a nutrition-focused agricultural sector that goes beyond staple grain productivity to emphasize the production and consumption of micronutrient-rich foods. The chapter first reviews the nutrition trends in India, characterized by slow progress in addressing high and variable rates of malnutrition. It then assesses the policies that have influenced agricultural growth trajectories and safety-net programmes to highlight the major challenges and disconnects in agriculture and nutrition policy. Finally, it calls for integrating some elements that a food-systems approach would consider, such as income, availability of nutritious food, intra-household distribution, and the health environment, as a way forward in addressing India's malnutrition dilemma.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115218794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women in agriculture and the implications for nutrition.","authors":"H. Malapit","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0058","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter discusses the role of women in agriculture, and the ways in which their status affects the health and nutrition of their households. It highlights recent literature on the impacts of gendered and nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes. It also goes beyond a singular focus on women to consider the role of gender dynamics in agriculture and nutrition, and why the relationships between men and women are just as important for nutrition. Finally, it considers the ways in which agricultural research and nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions can be designed so as to achieve better outcomes within nutrition and gender, and how these outcomes can be more accurately measured.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116188638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition.","authors":"S. Babu","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0134","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture-nutrition linkages. First, it highlights ways in which universities, organizations, and governments are working to improve cross-sectoral educational opportunities for students. Second, it explores how extension and agricultural services could be made more nutrition-sensitive by improving their content or the capacity of extension workers through formal education and training, in turn improving farmers' understanding of agriculture-nutrition linkages within production, on-farm processing, storage, and marketing; and consumers' purchasing decisions. Third, it considers the building of a nation's capacity to perform food policy research and analysis. Finally, the chapter reflects on lessons that can be learned from efforts to increase capacity at these critical levels.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130445745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New evidence on nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs.","authors":"M. Ruel","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0093","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter summarizes key findings from recent reviews of evidence of the nutritional impacts of agricultural development programmes. It focuses on findings from impact evaluations of different types of nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes, including biofortification, homestead food production systems, livestock transfer programmes, value chains for nutritious foods, and irrigation programmes. The review also includes, where available, information regarding pathways of impacts, mechanisms, and contextual factors that affect where and how agriculture may improve nutrition outcomes. The chapter concludes with a discussion of what the findings imply for the design and implementation of successful nutrition-sensitive agricultural programmes, and highlights some key research gaps that need to be addressed in order to further our understanding of how to unleash the potential of agriculture to deliver on nutrition.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134430331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Big data in agriculture and nutrition.","authors":"R. Musker","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0142","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter examines big data in agriculture and nutrition, the role of big data in decision making, and the challenges that must be overcome in order for big data in agriculture and nutrition to help stakeholders make optimal decisions. Lessons learned and solutions towards putting big data to use in agriculture and nutrition are discussed.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126766801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agriculture for nutrition: direct and indirect effects.","authors":"D. Headey, W. Masters","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0016","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter describes three main channels through which changing agriculture can affect nutrition: (1) the level and stability of real income and purchasing power among poor people; (2) the relative cost and difficulty of acquiring more nutritious foods relative to other things; and (3) exposure to health hazards associated with agricultural production, including various pathogens but also other harmful agricultural practices. Within each channel, the chapter highlights recent research findings that have strong implications for the way in which agriculture can be redesigned to improve nutrition.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133041913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nutritional ecology: understanding the intersection of climate/environmental change, food systems and health.","authors":"D. Raiten, G. Combs","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0068","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter addresses the intersection of climate/environmental change (CEC), food systems, nutrition and health. It presents the case for how an ecological approach can clarify the relationships of food systems and human nutritional status, and the role of the latter as both an input and outcome of human health. It also argues that considering nutritional ecology in addressing CEC is likely to reduce risks of unintended consequences.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117176277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diversifying rice-centric agriculture and diets: the Bangladesh experience.","authors":"A. Ahmed, J. Ghostlaw","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0154","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter reviews recent policy developments in agriculture and nutrition in Bangladesh,and then draws upon household-level data to examine trends related to agricultural production, food consumption and nutrition, and women's empowerment. Using this evidence, the chapter presents a government-led experiment that is working towards filling critical knowledge and action gaps for promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture. It is concluded that identifying, developing, and supporting synergies among the agriculture, nutrition, and health sectors is critical for Bangladesh to improve food and nutrition security.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123544248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The way forward for nutrition-driven agriculture.","authors":"S. Fan, S. Yosef, R. Pandya-Lorch","doi":"10.1079/9781786399311.0209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0209","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis chapter offers insights on how to move a nutrition-driven agriculture forward in the coming years. It highlights the importance of starting with clear nutrition goals, moving beyond staples, including the minimum package in any intervention, preparing for unintended consequences, capitalizing on large-scale changes, building up incentives, reconsidering old assumptions, building an enabling environment, and filling some knowledge gaps.","PeriodicalId":339043,"journal":{"name":"Agriculture for improved nutrition: seizing the momentum","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133645746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}