1. If you were designing an agricultural investment programme, what are the top 5 things you would do to maximize its impact on nutrition?
1) Support an action plan to promote the production of crops naturally rich in micronutrients and particularly fruits and vegetable, paying major attention to their availability all year round ( seasonality, transport, post-harvest/storage and market management), with a careful balance between national/local production and importation.
2) Encourage such agricultural production trough incitative measures in terms of financial returns for the producers and in terms of rural development
3) Support an action plan to promote the consumption of food naturally rich in micronutrients and particularly fruits and vegetable, strongly connected with the production plan.
Pay major attention to the affordability and price of the products. Don't consider biofortification as a panacea. Pay more attention to food products naturally rich in micronutrients
4) Support all actions in favor of a better information and education of the consumers, with adapted messages for targeted groups, for better and more balanced diet . For developing countries, consider mal-nutrition ( lack of micronutrients) as important as under nutrition (lack of calories) taking into account the explosion of NCDs. Avoid confusion between over-nutrition and mal-nutrition, etc....
5) Encourage integrated multistakeholders actions linking consumption to production and agriculture to nutrition, health, natural resources management, transports,....
2. To support the design and implementation of this programme, where would you like to see more research done, and why?
- relation between the type of production ( conventional, integrated, organic,...;) and the nutritive quality of food
- the nutritive quality of underutilized crops , particularly fruits and vegetable with an aim of better valorization of the current genetic diversity
- objective evaluation of comparative advantages of food products naturally rich in micronutrients (particularly F&V) and biofortification
- psycho - sociological studies for better information and sensibilisation of consumers
3. What can our institutions do to help country governments commit to action around your recommendations, and to help ensure implementation will be effective?
Encourage actions such as PROFEL/PROFAV , which are conducted jointly by FAO, WHO, GlobalHort,...
1. If you were designing an agricultural investment programme, what are the top 5 things you would do to maximize its impact on nutrition?
1) Support an action plan to promote the production of crops naturally rich in micronutrients and particularly fruits and vegetable, paying major attention to their availability all year round ( seasonality, transport, post-harvest/storage and market management), with a careful balance between national/local production and importation.
2) Encourage such agricultural production trough incitative measures in terms of financial returns for the producers and in terms of rural development
3) Support an action plan to promote the consumption of food naturally rich in micronutrients and particularly fruits and vegetable, strongly connected with the production plan.
Pay major attention to the affordability and price of the products. Don't consider biofortification as a panacea. Pay more attention to food products naturally rich in micronutrients
4) Support all actions in favor of a better information and education of the consumers, with adapted messages for targeted groups, for better and more balanced diet . For developing countries, consider mal-nutrition ( lack of micronutrients) as important as under nutrition (lack of calories) taking into account the explosion of NCDs. Avoid confusion between over-nutrition and mal-nutrition, etc....
5) Encourage integrated multistakeholders actions linking consumption to production and agriculture to nutrition, health, natural resources management, transports,....
2. To support the design and implementation of this programme, where would you like to see more research done, and why?
- relation between the type of production ( conventional, integrated, organic,...;) and the nutritive quality of food
- the nutritive quality of underutilized crops , particularly fruits and vegetable with an aim of better valorization of the current genetic diversity
- objective evaluation of comparative advantages of food products naturally rich in micronutrients (particularly F&V) and biofortification
- psycho - sociological studies for better information and sensibilisation of consumers
3. What can our institutions do to help country governments commit to action around your recommendations, and to help ensure implementation will be effective?
Encourage actions such as PROFEL/PROFAV , which are conducted jointly by FAO, WHO, GlobalHort,...
http://www.fao.org/agriculture/crops/news-events-bulletins/detail/en/item/92762/icode/?no_cache=1
http://www.globalhort.org/media/uploads/File/PROFEL/Current%20Status%20of%20Fruits%20and%20Vegetables%20Production%20and%20Consumption%5B1%5D.pdf
http://www.fao.org/ag/magazine/FAO-WHO-FV.pdf