Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa
Malnutrition in all its forms—undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight—is robbing Africa of much-needed productivity and growth potential. Addressing nutrition is an investment with high potential returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity, and improved huma...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2016
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| author | Covic, Namukolo Hendriks, Sheryl L. |
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| description | Malnutrition in all its forms—undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight—is robbing Africa of much-needed productivity and growth potential. Addressing nutrition is an investment with high potential returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity, and improved human resource capacity and economic growth. Although nutrition interventions have been seen as belonging in the health sector, integrated programs that include agriculture and other sectors can create synergies and added value. The agriculture sector needs to become more nutrition sensitive so that it can work in tandem with other sectors to drive a much-desired nutrition revolution for Africa. Achieving the goals of the Malabo Declarations on (1) accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods and (2) nutrition security through inclusive economic growth and sustainable development will require efforts from agriculture, social agriculture, social protection, education, water and sanitation, and more to implement high-impact interventions at scale. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1483162025-11-06T04:17:50Z Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa Covic, Namukolo Hendriks, Sheryl L. income gender biofortification mycotoxins economic growth undernutrition economic development nutrition policies agricultural growth agricultural policies indicators capacity development evaluation malnutrition nutrition aflatoxins children agricultural development food consumption poverty diet women Malnutrition in all its forms—undernourishment, micronutrient deficiencies, and overweight—is robbing Africa of much-needed productivity and growth potential. Addressing nutrition is an investment with high potential returns in terms of reduced health costs, increased productivity, and improved human resource capacity and economic growth. Although nutrition interventions have been seen as belonging in the health sector, integrated programs that include agriculture and other sectors can create synergies and added value. The agriculture sector needs to become more nutrition sensitive so that it can work in tandem with other sectors to drive a much-desired nutrition revolution for Africa. Achieving the goals of the Malabo Declarations on (1) accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods and (2) nutrition security through inclusive economic growth and sustainable development will require efforts from agriculture, social agriculture, social protection, education, water and sanitation, and more to implement high-impact interventions at scale. 2016-10-17 2024-06-21T09:24:20Z 2024-06-21T09:24:20Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148316 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Covic, Namukolo and Hendriks, Sheryl L. 2016. Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa. In Achieving a nutrition revolution for Africa: The road to healthier diets and optimal nutrition. Covic, Namukolo and Hendriks, Sheryl L. (Eds.). Chapter 13. Pp. 179-184. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896295933_13. |
| spellingShingle | income gender biofortification mycotoxins economic growth undernutrition economic development nutrition policies agricultural growth agricultural policies indicators capacity development evaluation malnutrition nutrition aflatoxins children agricultural development food consumption poverty diet women Covic, Namukolo Hendriks, Sheryl L. Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa |
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| title_short | Summary and policy recommendations: Toward a nutrition revolution for Africa |
| title_sort | summary and policy recommendations toward a nutrition revolution for africa |
| topic | income gender biofortification mycotoxins economic growth undernutrition economic development nutrition policies agricultural growth agricultural policies indicators capacity development evaluation malnutrition nutrition aflatoxins children agricultural development food consumption poverty diet women |
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