Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange - Africa

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AgN-GLEE - Africa participants.

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Special thanks to USAID's Bureau for Food Security, through the Feed the Future program, for their generous financial support for the AgN-GLEE workshops.

In December 2012, the SPRING project hosted an Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE) event entitled Strengthened and Sustainable Linkages among Agriculture, Economic Growth and Nutrition in Kampala, Uganda. This three-day, program-driven learning workshop focused on strengthening and aligning current and new Feed the Future (FTF) investments to achieve nutrition outcomes in the Africa Region. By engaging cross-sectoral teams of both USAID mission and partner stakeholders, the AgN-GLEE event offered opportunities for knowledge exchange, sharing of better practices, and practical application of evidence in developing country-specific plans for improving nutritional outcomes under FTF. Presentations from this event can be accessed through the tabs below. Additional materials will be added to this page over the next few weeks. 

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Meeting Agenda (PDF, 255 KB)
Participant List (PDF, 547 KB)
Speaker Bios (PDF, 766 KB)

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Presentations

Background and Objectives of Workshop and Overview of Agenda
Background and Objectives of Workshop and Overview of Agenda (PDF, 543 KB)
 Christian Winger, SPRING
Heather Danton, SPRING
Gary Steele, SPRING
Starting on the Same Page: Goals, Objectives and Strategies of Feed the Future
Starting on the Same Page: Goals, Objectives and Strategies of Feed the Future
(PDF, 1.36 MB)		 Susan Bradley, USAID
Agriculture and Nutrition Working Together to Improve Nutritional Outcomes:  The Global Landscape
Nutrition by Design Designing and Measuring for Nutrition Impacts (PDF, 1.01 MB)
 Shawn Baker, HKI
Translating Global Evidence and Priorities in Africa: A Case Study of Tanzania
(PDF, 3.5 MB)
 Laura Birx, USAID
Making Agriculture Work for Nutrition: From Challenges to Opportunities (PDF, 627 KB)
 Charlotte Dufour, FAO
The Nutrition Revolution From Revolution to Results (PDF, 1.29 MB)
 Shawn Baker, HKI
Primary Principles and Pathways for Reaching Nutrition through Agriculture
Primary Principles and Pathways for Reaching Nutrition through Agriculture
(PDF, 1.18 MB)
 Jody Harris, IFPRI
Anna Herforth, Consultant
Results of the N-GLEE Landscape Analysis (PDF, 2.18 MB) Lidan Du, SPRING
Integrated Program Design and Implementation
Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition: What? Why? How? (PDF, 555 KB)
 Gilles Bergeron, FANTA III
USAID Senegal's FTF Agriculture and Nutrition Project for Food Security (PDF, 1.35 MB)
 Papa Dieye, USAID
Papa Sene, Yaajeende Project
Designing Agricultural Value Chains for Nutrition – Introduction to a Tool
Nutritious Agriculture by Design (PDF, 491 KB)
 Laura Birx, USAID
Linking Agriculture and Nutrition: Value Chain Analysis-Based Tools for Enhancing the Nutritional Impacts of Agricultural Interventions (PDF, 689 KB)
 Enock Musinguzi,GAIN
What We Know About Changing Behaviors in Agriculture and Nutrition Programs
What we Know about Behavior Change in Agriculture and Health/Nutrition: Moving into the 21st Century with SBCC in Agriculture and Nutrition (PDF, 955 KB)
 Anna-Marie Ball, HarvestPlus
The Five Household Action Clusters: A New Ag-Nu SBCC Framework to Promote Increased Access to Diverse and Quality Foods (PDF, 759 KB)
 Melissa Antal, Manoff Group
Empowering the New Generation to Improve Nutrition and Economic opportunities: SBCC Gaps and Lessons Learned (PDF, 2.15 MB)
 Habtamu Fekadu, ENGINE Project
The Role Of Water In Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health
The Role Of Water In Linking Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (PDF, 5.15 MB) Jeff Griffiths, Nutrition CRSP
Gender-sensitive Programming for Nutritional Impact
Gender-sensitive Programming for Nutritional Impact (PDF, 3.42 MB) Amber Peterman, IFPRI
Jeannie Harvey, USAID
Pamela Kampire, Community Connector Uganda
M&E of Integrated Agriculture and Nutrition Programs
M&E of Integrated Agriculture and Nutrition Programs (PDF, 559 KB)
 Anne Swindale, USAID
Robert Chizimba, Integrating Nutrition in Value Chains Malawi
Technology for Maximizing Agriculture and Nutrition
Digital Green (PDF, 4 MB)
 Vinay Kumar, Digital Green
Community Connector Project (PDF, 1.12 MB)
 Eric Kamara, Grameen Foundation, USAID
Using Innovation to Make Progress in Anemia (PDF, 560 KB)
 Melanie Luick-Martins, USAID
Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies through Stronger Public/Private Partnerships
Addressing Micronutrient Deficiencies through Stronger Public/Private Partnerships
(PDF, 397 KB)
 Tom Schaetzel, The Manoff Group
An Update of the Implementation of Large-Scale Food Fortification in East and Central Africa (PDF, 2.42 MB) Maina Muthee, USAID
Biofortification and Working with the Private Sector (PDF, 3.51 MB)
 Anna-Marie Ball, HarvestPlus
Fortify West Africa Experiences in Implementing Large-Scale Food Fortification
(PDF, 2.34 MB)
 Shawn Baker, HKI
Nutrition 101: Evidence Behind the 1000-days Approach
Nutrition 101: Evidence Behind the 1000-days Approach (PDF, 2.27 MB) Joan Jennings, TOPS
Lidan Du, SPRING
Diversification: A Key Strategy for Better Ag and Nutritional Outcomes
Benefits of Diversity in Agriculture and Nutrition - Programmatic Context: Realities and Challenges (PDF, 4.78 MB)
 Robert Mwadime, FHI 360
Dietary Diversity and Nutritional Outcomes (PDF, 494 KB)
 Tom Schaetzel, The Manoff Group
Diversification: A Key Strategy for Better Ag and Nutritional Outcomes (PDF, 622 KB) Paul Sommers, TOPS
CAADP and SUN: Opportunities for Alignment in Africa
CAADP and SUN: Opportunities for Alignment in Africa (PDF, 1.2 MB)
 Bibi Giyose, NEPAD Agency
Concurrent Sessions Summary
Concurrent Sessions 2.3 (PDF, 3.43 KB)
Concurrent Sessions 2.4 (PDF, 3.38 KB)		 Roshelle Payes, USAID
Sandy Remancus, FANTA III
Case Study: Maximizing Nutritional Outcomes within Existing Feed the Future Programs
Pigeon Pea Case Study Activity (PDF, 458 KB) Paul Sommers, TOPS
Knowledge Sharing and Learning: The Way Forward
Knowledge Sharing and Learning: The Way Forward (PDF, 1.31 MB) Pascasie Adedze, USAID
Antonia Wolff, SPRING
John Nicholson, SPRING

AgN-GLEE Required Reading

Guiding Principles for Linking Agriculture and Nutrition – Synthesis

(A Herforth, 2012)
This document summarizes a more in-depth synthesis report that aims to provide an updated and complete list of current guidance, institutional strategies, and other publications released by international development institutions and inter-agency UN bodies on maximizing nutrition impact through agriculture, and will provide an analysis of the key messages currently available.

Download Guiding Principles for Linking Agriculture and Nutrition – Synthesis (PDF, 1.33 MB)

Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Essentials for Non-Specialist Development Professionals

(J Harris, 2011)
This brief report aims to outline basic concepts and definitions, tools, indicators, and common interventions used by each development sector, agriculture, nutrition and health, in order to provide a baseline level of knowledge and understanding on which to build dialogue and collaboration for linking agriculture and nutrition programming to reduce food insecurity.

Download Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Essentials for Non-Specialist Development Professionals (PDF, 498 KB)

Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health

(C Hawkes and M Ruel, 2006)
The policy briefs presented here draw on a wide body of research conducted within and outside the CGIAR. They provide a historical context to the links between agriculture and health, deal with specific health conditions and agricultural systems, and examine the challenges to linking agriculture and health in policy. Published under IFPRI's 2020 Vision for Food Agriculture the Environment, this series of briefs, propose a conceptual framework of the linkages between agriculture and health and describe agriculture and health linkages across a range of historical and present day contexts.

Download Understanding the Links between Agriculture and Health (PDF, 391 KB)

The Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India What Do We Know?

(Gillespie, Harris, & Kadiyala, 2012)
This paper describes existing evidence of the various links, pathways, and disconnects between agriculture and nutrition and develops a conceptual framework to aid in the systematic search for links and disconnects, delineating seven key pathways between agriculture and nutrition and mapping evidence to these pathways through a summary of the literature for India.

Download The Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India What Do We Know? (PDF, 823 KB)

An Introduction to Nutrition-Agriculture Linkages

(Chung, 2012)
This paper provides a simple framework for thinking critically about nutrition-agriculture linkages. The purpose is to help readers identify the linkages of greatest importance to their goals and to begin thinking about how to take steps toward integrating programs more effectively. Five different approaches are discussed and when possible examples are given from the Mozambique context. The framework illustrates the complexity of affecting nutritional changes through agricultural interventions, and underscores the importance of understanding the various mediating relationships in the nutrition/agriculture loop. Chung's paper does an especially good job at outlining the importance of the "labor-income-food" pathway which leads us to think about "push" strategies such as literacy, skills development, labor organization, transfer of pay and remittances as well as credit financing of food traders, small processors and food-vending SMEs that should be components in agriculture activity designs. This pathway is critical to the poorest, most vulnerable families being able to acquire food for more months of the year and provides an argument for the use of strengthened value chains that may create labor opportunities for the poor. The paper also includes a very useful discussion about gender and intra-household control of resources.

Download An Introduction to Nutrition-Agriculture Linkages (PDF, 589 KB)

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