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Integrating Agriculture and Nutrition: Understanding Value Chains and Intersectoral

Coordination in Practice

Ruth CampbellLadd

CORE Group Spring 2014 Practitioners MeetingMay 7, 2014

Value Chain Projects and Food Security Projects

Reaching vulnerable

populations with market-based approaches

Goal to improve nutrition & food securityTarget vulnerable populationsFocus on immediate needs

Food Security Projects

Goal to increase incomesTarget productive populationsLong-term focus

Value Chain Projects

Why It Matters

• Nutrition-specific activities alone are insufficient – Scaling up 10 key nutrition-specific activities to 90% of

the population would only lead to a 20% reduction in malnutrition (IFPRI)

• Increasing incomes alone is insufficient

The series of actors and activities needed to bring a product or

service from conception to the final consumer.

What is a Value Chain?

Global Business Enabling Environment

National Business Enabling Environment

Global RetailersGlobal Retailers

National Retailers

Wholesalers

Local Retailers

Input Suppliers

ProducerProducer Producer

Processors

Traders

Exporters

Cross-cutting Providers

Financial Service Providers

Sector-specific Providers


Global Enabling Environment

National Enabling Environment

Input Suppliers

Producers

WholesalersExporters

National Retailers

Processors/Traders

Global Retailers

Financial (cross cutting)

Sector specific providers

Cross-cutting providers


Set of principles and tools designed to drive economic growth that reduces poverty through the integration of large numbers of

small firms, farmers and laborersinto increasingly competitive value chains

What is the Value Chain Approach?

Analysis

Project Design

Implementation

Monitoring & Evaluation Learning

What is the Value Chain Approach?


National Enabling Environment

Financial (cross cutting)

Input Suppliers

Sector specific providers

Cross-cutting providers

Producers

WholesalersExporters

National Retailers

Processors/Traders

Global Retailers

Situate interventions within the context, and with an understanding, of the market systems as a whole

1. Take a Market Systems Perspective

• Whether local, regional or international, markets provide the opportunities and set the parameters for economic growth

2. Understand End Markets

• Cooperation to respond to market demand

• Trust to enable market efficiency

• Healthy competition to drive innovation

3. Focus on Incentives and Relationships

Upgrading = investments to increase competitiveness

• New technologies• Improved skills• Better services• Grades and standards• Branding & marketing

Firm-level Industry-level

4. Facilitate Upgrading





Exporters

National Retailers

Wholesalers

Global Retailers

Input Suppliers

IMPLEMENTER

IMPLEMENTER

Facilitation = stimulating changes in a market system without taking a direct role in the system

P r o d u c e r s

Traders






Exporters

National Retailers

Wholesalers

Global Retailers

Input Suppliers

IMPLEMENTER


P r o d u c e r s

Traders


Facilitation = stimulating changes in a market system without taking a direct role in the system

5. Learn as You Go

• Behavior change can be unpredictable

Value Chain Approach

Key Principles1. Take a market systems perspective2. Understand end markets3. Focus on relationships and upgrading4. Facilitate upgrading5. Learn as you go

Resourceswww.microlinks.orgwww.acdivoca.org/valuechains

Pathways between Agriculture and Nutrition

• Increased Income– Income– Food Prices– Allocation of Incomes

Adapted from: Stuart Gillespie, Jody Harris, and Suneetha Kadiyala, 2012 The Agriculture-Nutrition Disconnect in India, What Do We Know? IFPRI Discussion Paper 01187

• Increased Production– On-farm Production



• Women’s Empowerment– Women’s Nutritional Status– Women’s Childcare Management– Women’s Economic Status



• Post Harvest Handling and Storage– Preservation of Nutrients– Prevention of Diseases– Fortification



Ethiopia AGP-AMDe

Agricultural Growth Program—Agribusiness & Marketing Development (AGP-AMDe)

AGP-AMDe’s value chain approach is designed to:• Strengthen the competitiveness of six value chains• Increase access to finance• Improve the enabling environment • Expand public-private partnership investments • Reaching 1.3 million farmers

Ethiopia AGP-AMDe

6 Value Chains• Coffee• Honey• Sesame Seed• Maize• Wheat• Chickpea

• Challenges to Integration– Selected Crops– Target Beneficiaries– Scale– M&E of Behavior Change

Ethiopia AGP-AMDe

Overview of Nutrition Integration Activities• Nutri-SAT• Sell More For More - Nutrition Module• Wheat flour fortification

Ethiopia AGP-AMDe

Sell More For More Nutrition Module– Cascade training

• Using TOT through Farmer Cooperative Unions• Targeted at farmers• 38,000 Farmers (800,000)

– Appropriate learning analogies for farmers

– M&E – nutrition behavior change

AGP-AMDe

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