Download - Fao nutrition programming
FAO support to nutrition-sensitive agriculture planning (1)• Capacity development and technical guidance (global level) :• Facilitated dialogue on “Key Recommendations for Improving
Nutrition through Agriculture” (2012)• Developing guidelines: “Enhancing the Nutritional Impact of
Agriculture Investment Programmes - Checklist and guidance for programme formulation”
• Collaboration with IFAD and World Bank to mainstream nutrition in agriculture investment projects (e.g. Training workshop on Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Investment with IFAD - July 2014)
• Development of methods to support the analysis of the nutritional impact of food and agriculture policies and programmes
N.B. “Agriculture” includes crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry
FAO support to nutrition-sensitive agriculture planning (2)• Support to regional institutions• collaboration with NEPAD on the “CAADP Nutrition Capacity Development
Initiative” (support to 50 countries in mainstreaming nutrition in CAADP investment plans)
• Support to ASEAN for the formulation of the regional food and nutrition security strategy
• Country-level support (long-term or punctual, depending on countries):• Support to governments for mainstreaming nutrition in food and agriculture
policies and investment plans• Support to inter-sectoral coordination for nutrition• Nutrition capacity assessments of institutions working in food and agriculture• Support on nutrition education, communication and training (training of
extension staff; healthy complementary feeding)• Promotion of school-based nutrition activities• Integration of food consumption indicators in food security and nutrition
information systems• Support to World Bank and IFAD agriculture programme formulation