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Name: | Home Grown Nutrition Report |
Description: | The All-Party Group on Agriculture and Food for Development produced the report, Home Grown Nutrition to highlight issues in improving nutrition and food security and summarised a number of recommendations. These recommendations included: that national governments, donors, multilateral institutions, NGOs and wider stakeholders: Invest in agriculture as a long term project, putting smallholder farmers at the centre of these programmes; to include improved nutritional outcomes as one of the objectives for new agricultural investment programmes; to ensure that at national level there is a coordinated effort across ministries to work on addressing the challenge of food and nutrition insecurity; to encourage “Home Grown Nutrition” by investing in farmers’ education and training on the benefits of a diversified diet and where to access appropriate inputs; to invest in long-term and comprehensive research, monitoring and evaluation programmes on the role that agriculture plays on nutrition and; to recognise that for interventions in agriculture it is not always as easy to provide evidence of impact as in other sectors, such as education and health; and finally, to promote a policy environment which recognises agriculture as a key tool to ending hunger, food and nutrition insecurity. |
Author: | APPG for Agriculture and Development |
Publisher: | APPG for Agriculture and Development |
Publication Year: | 2013 |