Greetings to all of you, I feel that nutrition can be greatly improved if the mode of agricultural extension takes a new twist that is if extensionists could partner with nutritionists to help deliver dietary guidance in the production process to enable the farmers get the appropriate nourishment from the promoted crops and biorfortication.
Also, it is all about gradual mindset change of the farmers through sensitisation; because not all people that are malnourished do not have the food. In fact, I know of many farmers (especially where men control the resources) who deny thier children of milk and sell it to get cash for buying some alchohol to drink at the expense of their childrens health.
To that cause, I feel that more research should be done on the linkages in Agriculture, Nutrition and health. The relationship between gender and control of agricultural inputs and output should also be studied and appropriate intervetions made.
Also, malnutrition may also be cyclic whereby a malnourished mother gives birth to a malnourished child, and during their prebirth visits, emphasis should be put on eating right in order to nourish the growing foetuses.
女士 Elizabeth Asiimwe