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Presentation by Delia Grace and John McDermott at the 2012 Ecohealth conference held at Kunming, China on 15-18 October 2012.
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Agriculture for nutrition and health
Delia Grace and John McDermott
International Livestock Research Institute
The new CGIAR research program on the links between agriculture and human nutrition
and health
EcoHealth Conference, Kunming, China 2012
International Livestock Research Institute
700 full time staff-1000 total
100 scientists & researchers
54 from 22 developing
countries
more than 30 scientific
disciplines
2012 budget USD 60 million
ILRI works with a range of
research & development
partners
across 7 CGIAR research
programs
•a member of the CGIAR Consortium, ILRI conducts livestock, food and
environmental research
to help alleviate poverty
and improve food security, health & nutrition,
while protecting the natural resource base.
Mali
Nigeria
Mozambique
Kenya
Ethiopia
India
China
Laos
Vietnam
Thailand
Agriculture for Nutrition & Health CGIAR Research Program 4
IFPRI ILRI
BIOVERSITY
CIAT
CIMMYT
CIP
ICARDA
ICRAF
ICRISAT
IITA
IWMI
WORLDFISH
Social Behavior Change and Communications
All components
1. Enhancing Nutrition along the Value Chain
3. Prevention & Control of Ag-
Associated Diseases
2. Bio-fortification
4. Integrated Programs and Policies
Health
Nutrition
Agriculture
RESULT: Improved nutrition and health, especially among women and young children
Decreased risk of AAD
Increased income and
gender equity
Increased labor
productivity
CRP4 Conceptual Framework
Improved availability, access, intake of nutritious,
safe foods
Increased knowledge
of nutrition, food safety
CRP4’s strategic goal: Accelerate progress in improving the nutrition and health of poor people by leveraging agriculture and enhancing the synergies in joint efforts between agriculture, health and nutrition
5
Human health
Agro- Ecosystems
Animal health
•International organisations •Regional organisations •Private sector health provision •Public health •Veterinary public health •NGOs & CBOs •Conservation •Environment
Plant health
Agriculture associated human disease
International agricultural health research
1. Value chains for nutrition and health
Objective – Lever VC for selected food to increase demand for and access to nutritious food for the poor
2. Biofortification
Objective: Develop, test and make available to poor & under-nourished, new varieties of nutrient dense staple crops
2 subcomponents:
– HarvestPlus (targeting Africa and Asia)
– AgroSalud (targeting Latin America)
3. Agriculture-associated diseases
Goal: Prevent & control AAD for improved food safety, water quality, GAP and better control of zoonoses & emerging diseases
Sub Components:
– Improving food safety
– Controlling zoonotic diseases and diseases emerging from animals
– Other health risks of agro-ecosystems
4. Programs and policies
Goal: Exploit & enhance synergies between ANH through operational and policy research that supports
a) integrated community-level programming,
b) enabling policy environment
Evidence-based assumptions underpin
ASSUMPTIONS / HYPOTHESES
1. Nutrient dense foods can transform diets of the poor
2. Informal markets are most important and require
risk- and incentive based approaches
3. CGIAR research can work effectively at the demand
side: (pull mechanisms)
4. CGIAR research has potential for consumer
education, health
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Risk Analysis & Economics
• In Vietnam, supermarkets
are not safer
• In India, where people see
how animals are killed,
quality is better
• In Nigeria, women butchers
sell safer meat
• In Kenya, recognising the
informal sector saves $26
million each year
Risk management
Community based tsetse control always works, never sustainable
Improving food safety: cheap & effective
Decision support tools for early warning
Saving $ through One Health approaches
Agriculture for improved nutrition and health