Mellissa Wood AIFSC Opening Presentation

Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012

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Australian International Food Security CentreMellissa Wood, Director



AIFSC

• CHOGM initiative• Bridging research and

development – ‘blur’• African office• Initially A$33 million over

4 years• Delivered using

partnerships• Focus on food production,

access and utilization challenges

Accelerating research delivery and adoption of innovations for food security


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Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food

MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks

Focus of interventions

Outcomes

Impact

Policy frameworks

Increased food production

Increased income Improved access to knowledge

Increased institutional and

individual capacity

Improved nutrition and diversity in

diets

“Food security” = availability, access and utilisationBroad platform

Sustainable and productive

farming systems

Markets, value chains and

social systems

Food nutrition and safety

Communica-tions and

knowledge management

Education, training and

capacity building

Increased access to more nutritious and safe food and

less post harvest waste

Greater access to agricultural

innovations

Outputs of interventions

for smallholder female and male farmers and other poor households

Innovations in information

and knowledge delivery and

facilitated partnerships

Critical mass trained to address

food security issues, enduring

institutional partnerships

Program themes


(research) (capacity building)

Better market

access and returns, and

stronger value chains

Better informed and

supported policy

development


D

Sufficient, accessible and nutritious food

MDGs, in-country priorities, Australian Aid Frameworks

Focus of interventions

Outcomes

Impact

Policy frameworks

Increased food production

Increased income Improved access to knowledge

Increased institutional and

individual capacity

Improved nutrition and diversity in

diets

“Food security” = availability, access and utilisationBroad platform


farming systems

Markets, value chains and

social systems

Food nutrition and safety

Communica-tions and

knowledge management

Education, training and

capacity building

Increased access to more nutritious and safe food and

less post harvest waste

Greater access to agricultural

innovations

Outputs of interventions

for smallholder female and male farmers and other poor households

Innovations in information

and knowledge delivery and

facilitated partnerships

Critical mass trained to address

food security issues, enduring

institutional partnerships

Program themes


(research) (capacity building)

Better market

access and returns, and

stronger value chains

Better informed and

supported policy

development



farming systems

Markets, value chains

& social systems

Food nutrition

and safety

Evergreen Agriculture$5.5million(+ $2 million)4 yearsUganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi

Adoption Pathways$3 million(+ $1.8 million)4 yearsEthiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique

Blue water use

Family poultry and crops

Vegetable-based farming

Understanding farming systems

Primary impactSecondary impact

scope

project

Small-scalemechanisation$4 million(+ $2.3 million)4 yearsEthiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe

Current activitiesReview of ACIAR’s projects in Africa – impacts and adoption

Foresight for food security

Landcare for Food Security

Drought tolerant sorghum

study


Source: Gretchen A Stevens, Mariel M Finucane, Christopher J Paciorek, Seth R Flaxman, Richard A White, Abigail J Donner, Majid Ezzati, on behalf of Nutrition Impact Model Study Group (Child Growth). Lancet July 5,2012, taken from IDS presentation.

SSA has a 0 – 0.24 probability of meeting MDG 1 target (underweight children)

Food nutrition in eastern and southern Africa Workshop ILRI Nairobi 10-11 September 2012 7

Direct Nutrition

Interventions

AgricultureSufficient food

production,Sufficient food

access, Diet diversity,

Gender

Social Protection

Poverty reduction

Social practices

Food prep’n, intra-

household distribution, Preferences,

GenderWater and SanitationFocus on

nutrition status outcomes

Health systemsView nutrition as lower in hierarchy

—embed direct nutrition

programmes

EducationKeep girls in secondary

school to delay age at first pregnancy

Effective nutrition action requires coherence and critical mass –from all sectors

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Effective governance of

nutrition

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Objectives for the workshop

To identify:• research gaps in terms of food security,

agriculture and nutrition in line with the AIFSC strategy and African priorities

• how the AIFSC could best complement work being undertaken by partners in target countries and where we should invest.


Objectives for the workshop (cont)Day 1 – knowledge sharing and review

Population nutritional indicators and statusDrivers and foresight Activities and actors

Day 2 – developing a framework for priority AIFSC investment

Analytical and transparentAcknowledging complexity, current activities Boundaries – firm and flexibleTimePartnersStrategic priority setting


Thank you


Vegetable scoping study• AVRDC – The World Vegetable Center is coordinating

a preliminary study to improve income and nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa by enhancing vegetable based farming and food systems

• understand the characteristics of vegetable production systems in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), specifically in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania, in order to develop appropriate and effective technological interventions which can maximize returns, generate and increase income to reduce poverty, and contribute to greater food and nutritional security.

• The specific objectives were to:– analyze the poverty and food insecurity reduction

potential of vegetable production in urban, peri-urban and rural agriculture;

– identify action-research topics with high potential for providing practical and policy advice on to how to promote vegetable production as a poverty and food insecurity reduction strategy;

– identify research partners to implement these activities and establish the best combination of action-research topics and partners within a coherent research project


Poultry project• Assoc. Prof. Robyn Alders involved for over 20

yrs

• Thermo-tolerant vaccine produced (ACIAR $) and distributed over several African countries (AusAID $)

• Sustainable system for vaccine production and coordinated distribution – vaccination and evaluation every 4 months

• 70-80% protection of flock against disease• Assessing poultry and crop value chains:

o strategic linkages to improve efficiency of both chains?

o ↑ poultry production/trade through supplementary feeding from crops?

o ↑’d efficiency of poultry production contribute to ecologically sustainable ag and food security?

o ↑ human nutritiono specialists in human health & nutrition, animal

health, value chains, gender/social issues

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Mellissa Wood AIFSC Opening Presentation