Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition

This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity. First, it highlights ways in which universities, organizations, and governments are worki...

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Autor principal: Babu, Suresh Chandra
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146514
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description This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity. First, it highlights ways in which universities, organizations, and governments are working to improve cross-sectoral educational opportunities for students. Second, it explores how extension and agricultural services could be made more nutrition-sensitive by improving their content or the capacity of extension workers through formal education and training, in turn improving farmers’ understanding of agriculture–nutrition linkages within production, on-farm processing, storage, and marketing; and consumers’ purchasing decisions (FAO, 2014). Finally, it reflects on lessons that can be learned from efforts to increase capacity at these critical levels.
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spelling CGSpace1465142025-12-08T10:29:22Z Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition Babu, Suresh Chandra nutrition nutrition policies agricultural policies sustainability agricultural development food systems capacity development nutrition-sensitive agriculture agriculture–nutrition link This chapter focuses on how building and strengthening capacity at the individual and institutional levels can in turn strengthen agriculture– nutrition linkages. It focuses on two specific aspects of capacity. First, it highlights ways in which universities, organizations, and governments are working to improve cross-sectoral educational opportunities for students. Second, it explores how extension and agricultural services could be made more nutrition-sensitive by improving their content or the capacity of extension workers through formal education and training, in turn improving farmers’ understanding of agriculture–nutrition linkages within production, on-farm processing, storage, and marketing; and consumers’ purchasing decisions (FAO, 2014). Finally, it reflects on lessons that can be learned from efforts to increase capacity at these critical levels. 2019-02-14 2024-06-21T09:07:20Z 2024-06-21T09:07:20Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146514 en https://doi.org/10.1079/9781786399311.0000 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute CAB International Babu, Suresh Chandra. 2019. Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition. In Agriculture for improved nutrition: Seizing the momentum. Chapter 13. Fan, Shenggen; Yosef, Sivan; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul (Eds.). Wallingford, UK: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and CABI. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146514
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nutrition policies
agricultural policies
sustainability
agricultural development
food systems
capacity development
nutrition-sensitive agriculture
agriculture–nutrition link
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Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title_full Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title_fullStr Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title_full_unstemmed Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title_short Building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
title_sort building capacity to link agriculture and nutrition
topic nutrition
nutrition policies
agricultural policies
sustainability
agricultural development
food systems
capacity development
nutrition-sensitive agriculture
agriculture–nutrition link
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