Year of publication 2013

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Author Nutrition Division

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Product type Book (stand-alone)

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Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Since the food crisis in 2008, the L’Aquila commitments to agriculture - as well as increased investments in agriculture from multilateral development institutions and foundations - have led to increased funding and human resources for agricultural development, and in particular that focused on smallholder and women farmers. At the same time, the Scaling Up Nutrition Framework for Action (2010) and Road Map (2011) have also placed an emphasis on the need for urgent investment to reduce malnutrition, and the United Nations Committee on World Food Security (CFS) is developing a Global Strategic Framework for Food Security and Nutrition (2012). National governments and operational staff have also increased their requests for assistance and guidance from the international development partners on what to do to improve nutrition impact from agriculture. For example, since the inclusion of nutrition as Pillar 3 in the CAADP, African nations are seeking improved knowledge and capacity in this area. The main underlying determinants of adequate nutrition are access to adequate nutritious food, healthy environments and access to health services, and adequate care practices for children and mothers. In turn, these underlying causes are affected by an array of basic causes, such as the political environment, gender equity and economic resources.1 Therefore, nutritional improvement will come from approaches within many sectors that aim to impact the underl ying determinants of nutrition – or “nutrition-sensitive” development – in addition to “nutrition-specific” approaches that directly affect the immediate determinants of nutrition (food intake and disease).2 Agriculture is of fundamental importance to human nutrition, both as a direct determinant of household food consumption and through its role in livelihoods and food systems. There is a growing understanding that agricultural development provides an obvious and needed entry point fo r efforts to improve nutrition. At the same time, agricultural investments targeted to smallholder farmers are more likely to succeed if they address the human capital constraints due to malnutrition.

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Language English

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