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The conference core questions are: How to move systems concepts into
practice effectively and efficiently? How do we move to scale and impact
with systems research and development?
What is the value added of that approach? Why is systems research needed to achieve this?
Integrating nutrition to systems research: through Nutrition sensitive landscapes
Diets to Landscapes
Adequate dietary intake
Disease
Supporting services Nutrient cycling Soil formation Primary production
Ecosystems and their
biodiversity
Provisioning services Food: macronutrients, micronutrients, anti-nutritional factors Medicinal products Fresh water Fuel wood
Regulatory services Climate regulation Water purification Disease regulation Pollinators
Cultural services Culinary traditions Recreational Spiritual
Human nutrition outcomes
FOOD
CARE
HEALTH
Human selection, marketing and consumption and
the impact of dietary choices on ecosystem functioning and
services
Human selection and the impact of healthy/ unhealthy
populations on management of ecosystem functioning and
services
“The most important route to improved nutrition is, however, the diversification of diets – and delivering this outcome will require CGIAR to adopt new approaches. It will be vital to increase our understanding of food systems from the consumers’ point of view and to place more emphasis on the development of value chains that can deliver nutrient-rich foods to poor consumers efficiently, at the same time as providing new opportunities for producers and processors.” CO SRF, February, 2015
Addressing nutrition with diversified agriculture
Food-related causes
IMPROVED quality
HIGH diet diversity
UNDERNUTRITION
DIVERSIFIED AGRICULTURE PRACTICES
• Diet diversity has been shown to be a good predictor of dietary quality in young children
• Diet diversity is associated
with stunting
(Moursi et al., 2008; Arimond and Ruel, 2004) Slide:Fanzo, J.
“Increased availability of diverse nutrient-rich foods can be achieved by introducing fruits, vegetables, livestock and fish into the farming system” CO SRF, 2015
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Nutrition Sensitive Landscapes
Working at the interaction between sustainability goals – also important in view of the SDGs and post 2015 development agenda
Improved natural resource systems & ecosystem services
Improved Food & Nutrition Security for
human health
Reducing poverty
Nutrition Sensitive Landscapes
Approach: Seasonal year-round access to diverse foods
Spatial, Temporal and gender analysis Modeling scenarios Participatory selection of interventions Scaling out of methods and tools
Zambia, Kenya and Vietnam
Central NSL hypotheses
• Diverse diets can lead to diverse landscapes
• Environmental management and restoration of agricultural landscapes can be a critical pathway to improving human nutrition and health
• Markets and value chains provide a means to trigger or accelerate such change
Environment farming & food
systems Human nutrition
& health
NSL approach and integration with AAS DietmoduleUsingexis ngdatafromAASbiodiversityassessmentandvaluechainsurveys
Towhatextentdodietsmeetnutrientrequirementsofwomenandchildrenindifferentseasons?
Howandwhyisthelandscapeusedby#groupsfortheirdiets?
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Whatisthepoten alofthelandscapetoimprovediets?
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Whatareenvironmentalandeconomicbenefitsandcostsof
differentop ons?
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Howcansuccessfulop onsbeadoptedatscale?
Opera onalpar cipatoryresearch
Researchques ons Methodologyworkpackages
Howtoselectandimplementbest-betop onsfortransforma ve
change?
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Theoryofchangedevelopment,par cipatoryac onresearchandimpactevalua on,re-runintegratedmodeling
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GOAL: meet human nutrient requirements through FOOD and DIET while also protecting the environment from where those foods are sourced. Approach tries to optimize the multiple goals of food and nutrition security, sustainable use of natural resources and conservation of biodiversity, both for human health as well as environmental health.
Nutrition sensitive landscapes
ESS and Nutrition
• In what way can we look at current communities of species that form an ecosystem for the “provision of food” – Farm
– Forest
– Communal land spaces
• And how does provision of food (through ag practices) alter current ecosystem services
(+/-)
• Explore the ecosystem services within a given landscape that can contribute to nutrition
• Identify trade-offs and synergies between agricultural practices, nutrition and environment
• Promote solutions that are both environmentally sustainable and improve nutrition
Purpose of the research theme
Levels of information for the model
1. Requirements of household members Use: Compare hh nutrient requirements to food acquisition (own production + purchase) and simulate scenarios and assess trade offs 2. Dietary diversity of all or selected HH members Use: Assess trade-offs and develop best-bet scenarios *also key monitoring indicator for diet quality 3. Quantitative dietary intakes Use: Quantify amount of food/food group currently consumed (in grams) and compare to requirements to assess gaps between current consumption and requirements and set upper and lower limits for modelling tradeoffs