A NEW CONCEPT

Healthy villages are smart villages: Health, energy, and development Webinar 16 Feb 2017

UN – Sustainable Diets

Food security -> Nutrition security

Smart Food

Contributing to some of our biggest issues in UNISON

- Rural poverty - Malnutrition

- Climate change and environmental degradation

Pearl Millet Finger Millet Sorghum

The ‘big 3’ crops (wheat, maize and rice)

receive most R&D attention,

have well developed value chains

are dominant in the minds of government,

industry and consumers.

There is a larger divide growing.

How can other crops

– highly nutritious and climate smart –

learn from this and break the divide.

Create a demand driven approach

Change the image of millets

Create a buzz around millets

Encourage modern convenience products Advocate for a supporting

environment Forward and backward integration to

ensure small holder farmers benefit

A NEW APPROACH

The Smart Villages will be smarter - poor communities living in harsh environments will benefit from the market creation

- Increased incomes

- Increased production hence food security

- Better nutrition and health

- Women and children will be the biggest beneficiaries

WHAT SUCCESS WILL LOOK LIKE

Thank you