LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will be able to:

• Understand the definitions of nutrition-sensitive agriculture, food security, nutrition security, value chains and food systems and their interconnectedness;
• Be able to apply agriculture-to-nutrition pathways framework to ensure that agricultural development programs and policies contribute to the desired nutrition outcomes;
• Be able to design and adjust implementation of agricultural development programs and policies to enhance the impact on nutrition;
• Understand and apply monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment principles to nutrition-sensitive agricultural programs and policies.

Topics to be covered

• Ensuring the nutritional impact of agricultural projects
• Making agricultural programs nutrition sensitive
• Increasing the availability and accessibility and consumption of diverse and nutritious foods.
• Different agricultural pathways leading to food and nutrition security.
• Contribute to improving nutrition by making agricultural programs and policies more nutrition-sensitive.
• Insight into the broader (international) food and nutrition policy framework and the stakeholders involved;
• Identifying the local nutrition issues, which are to be solved with agricultural programs and policies;
• Pathways, key concepts and approaches to link value chain development to food and nutrition security;
• Addressing economic variables (e.g. work capacity, productivity) through identification and strengthening of linkages between value chains and nutritional impact;
• Design effective intervention strategies to reach Bottom of the Pyramid consumers (Including a focus on project cycle management);
• An introduction to monitoring and evaluation, including a selection of key indicators essential for organizational learning agenda’s