From the Food Security Forum 2014: Good food, good health: delivering the benefits of food security in Australia and beyond - 17 March 2014

1. A rights-based approach to food and
nutrition security
Bill Pritchard | bill.pritchard@sydney.edu..au

2. 1. Multi-dimensional poverty assessment
2. The agriculture-nutrition disconnect, and the
nutrition-sensitive development agenda
3. The ‘rights revolution’ in food policy
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3. India [left], Tanzania [right]
Oxford Multidimensional Poverty and Human Development Initiative (2013) Country Briefings

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5. The agriculture-nutrition disconnect
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• “Income growth drives declines in
undernutrition: estimates suggest a
10% increase in income leads to a
5-6% decrease in stunting levels
(Ruel and Alderman 2013). But
income growth cannot be relied on
and only addresses part of the
problem.” (p. 5) [italics mine]
• ‘”which agricultural practices,
policies and interventions can make
a positive impact on the nutritional
status of vulnerable rural
households?’” (p. 9)
http://agridiet.ucc.ie/wp-
content/uploads/sites/2/2013/10/AgriDiet-
GlobalReview-FINAL-22-10-13.pdf

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RCT =
randomised
controlled trials
Meeker, J. & Haddad, L. (2013) A State-of-the-Art Review of Agriculture-Nutrition Linkages, AgDiet Position
Paper, Dublin, p. 9

7. Meeker & Haddad’s key priority questions (2013, p. 10)
› We need to find out the following from these actors:
› Farm household members:
- What are the key agriculture decisions? Who makes them?
- How much do nutrition considerations factor into these decisions? Why or why
not?
- What are the knowledge, attitude and practices of different farm household
individuals with respect to nutrition?
- What do farmers think are the key incentives and barriers to considering
nutrition? What are the important trade-offs and information gaps?
› With other stakeholders in the farm system:
- How much do they know about nutrition?
- What are their views about how much agriculture should do for nutrition?
- What do they think could be done? What do they see as the trade-offs?
- What needs to happen to make agriculture more pro-nutrition?
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8. Rights-based approaches to food policy
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