From Agriculture to Nutrition : Pathways, Synergies and Outcomes
The report seeks to analyze what has been learned about how agricultural interventions influence nutrition outcomes in low-and middle-income countries, focusing on the target populations of the millennium development goals-people living on less tha...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2017
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/857121468339873748/From-agriculture-to-nutrition-pathways-synergies-and-outcomes http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28183 |
Summary: | The report seeks to analyze what has
been learned about how agricultural interventions influence
nutrition outcomes in low-and middle-income countries,
focusing on the target populations of the millennium
development goals-people living on less than a dollar a day.
It also sets out to synthesize lessons from past efforts to
improve the synergies between agriculture and nutrition
outcomes. The report identifies a number of developments in
agriculture and nutrition that have transformed the context
in which nutrition is affected by agriculture. The
relationship between agriculture and human nutrition is far
more complex than the relationship between food production
and food consumption or the economic relationship between
food supply and food demand. Expanding agriculture's
purview and capacity to embrace those contributing factors
and determinants of nutrition that are traditionally the
province of other disciplines or improving
agriculture's interface with other, nonagricultural
sectors, suggest themselves as possible ways forward. The
limitations of production-focused agricultural programs and
interventions in delivering improved nutrition impacts have
been recognized by some in the agricultural community for
decades. In the early 1980s a number of international
development agencies undertook programs that sought to
orient agricultural production to nutrition-related
objectives, and over time a substantial body of literature
developed around the analysis of the programs' results. |
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