Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar

Ending malnutrition in all forms is a global development priority. Investment in nutrition can yield high returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity and improved human resources capacity and economic growth (Covic & and Hendriks 2016; Shekar et al. 2017). Nutrition policy-makin...

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Autor principal: Babu, Suresh Chandra
Formato: Artículo preliminar
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Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145496
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description Ending malnutrition in all forms is a global development priority. Investment in nutrition can yield high returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity and improved human resources capacity and economic growth (Covic & and Hendriks 2016; Shekar et al. 2017). Nutrition policy-making and program interventions in developing countries fail to bring together several sectors that contribute to nutrition improvement. Since food systems influence the type of food produced, understanding relevant drivers of a country’s food system with an emphasis on nutrition can help to end malnutrition (Per Pinstrup-Andersen 2012a; HLPE 2017; Babu and Kataki 2003). In this paper, we adopt a food systems perspective to review Myanmar’s current food system. With the help of a review of the literature and two national consultative stakeholder workshops, we examine Myanmar’s current food system. This is a crucial step since it identifies gaps existing in the current policies/ strategies being implemented. After the review, we developed an AIT (analyze gaps, identify priority investment areas, and track progress) operational framework that can be used to increase the nutrition-sensitivity of a food system. Applying this framework to Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), this paper presents an analysis of the gaps that need to be addressed to make ADS nutrition-sensitive, provide priority investment areas, and a tracking system which monitors the progress of these investments.
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spelling CGSpace1454962025-11-06T07:18:28Z Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar Babu, Suresh Chandra nutrition policies agricultural policies capacity development malnutrition nutrition famine systems analysis food systems Ending malnutrition in all forms is a global development priority. Investment in nutrition can yield high returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity and improved human resources capacity and economic growth (Covic & and Hendriks 2016; Shekar et al. 2017). Nutrition policy-making and program interventions in developing countries fail to bring together several sectors that contribute to nutrition improvement. Since food systems influence the type of food produced, understanding relevant drivers of a country’s food system with an emphasis on nutrition can help to end malnutrition (Per Pinstrup-Andersen 2012a; HLPE 2017; Babu and Kataki 2003). In this paper, we adopt a food systems perspective to review Myanmar’s current food system. With the help of a review of the literature and two national consultative stakeholder workshops, we examine Myanmar’s current food system. This is a crucial step since it identifies gaps existing in the current policies/ strategies being implemented. After the review, we developed an AIT (analyze gaps, identify priority investment areas, and track progress) operational framework that can be used to increase the nutrition-sensitivity of a food system. Applying this framework to Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), this paper presents an analysis of the gaps that need to be addressed to make ADS nutrition-sensitive, provide priority investment areas, and a tracking system which monitors the progress of these investments. 2019-06-01 2024-06-21T09:04:34Z 2024-06-21T09:04:34Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145496 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145473 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146514 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145452 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146522 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Babu, Suresh Chandra. 2019. Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1840. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145496
spellingShingle nutrition policies
agricultural policies
capacity development
malnutrition
nutrition
famine
systems analysis
food systems
Babu, Suresh Chandra
Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title_full Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title_fullStr Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title_full_unstemmed Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title_short Nutrition sensitive food system: Policy analysis and investment framework for Myanmar
title_sort nutrition sensitive food system policy analysis and investment framework for myanmar
topic nutrition policies
agricultural policies
capacity development
malnutrition
nutrition
famine
systems analysis
food systems
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145496
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