Presentation by Delia Grace and John McDermott at the 2012 Ecohealth conference held at Kunming, China on 15-18 October 2012.

1. Agriculture for nutrition and health
The new CGIAR research program on the links between agriculture and human nutrition
and health
EcoHealth Conference, Kunming, China 2012
Delia Grace and John McDermott
International Livestock Research Institute

2. International Livestock Research Institute
•a member of the CGIAR Consortium, ILRI conducts livestock, food and
environmental research
 to help alleviate poverty
 and improve food security, health & nutrition,
 while protecting the natural resource base.
India
Mali
 700 full time staff-1000 total
 100 scientists & researchers
 54 from 22 developing
countries China
 more than 30 scientific Vietnam
disciplines
 2012 budget USD 60 million
Laos
 ILRI works with a range of
Nigeria
research & development
partners Mozambique
 across 7 CGIAR research
Kenya
programs
Ethiopia Thailand

3. Agriculture
for Nutrition &
Health
CGIAR Research Program 4
IFPRI
ILRI
BIOVERSITY
CIAT
CIMMYT
CIP
ICARDA
ICRAF
ICRISAT
IITA
IWMI
WORLDFISH

4. CRP4 Conceptual Framework
Health
CRP4’s strategic goal:
1. Enhancing
Nutrition along 4. Integrated
3. Prevention &
Control of Ag-
Accelerate progress
the Value Chain in improving the nutrition and
Programs and Policies Associated
Diseases
health of poor people by leveraging agriculture and
Nutrition
2. Bio-
enhancing the synergies in joint efforts between
fortification
Agriculture
agriculture, health and nutrition
Social Behavior Change and
Communications
All components
Improved availability, Increased
Increased Decreased Increased
access, intake knowledge
labor risk of AAD income and
of nutritious, of nutrition,
productivity gender equity
safe foods food safety
RESULT: Improved nutrition and health, especially among women and young children

5. •International organisations
•Regional organisations
•Private sector health provision
•Public health
•Veterinary public health
Human •NGOs & CBOs
health •Conservation
Animal •Environment
health
Agriculture associated
Plant human disease
health
Agro-
Ecosystems International
agricultural health
research
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8. 1. Value chains for nutrition and health
Objective – Lever VC for selected food to
increase demand for and access to nutritious
food for the poor

9. 2. Biofortification
Objective: Develop, test and make available to
poor & under-nourished, new varieties of
nutrient dense staple crops
2 subcomponents:
– HarvestPlus (targeting Africa and Asia)
– AgroSalud (targeting Latin America)

10. 3. Agriculture-associated diseases
Goal: Prevent & control AAD for improved food
safety, water quality, GAP and better control
of zoonoses & emerging diseases
Sub Components:
– Improving food safety
– Controlling zoonotic diseases and diseases
emerging from animals
– Other health risks of agro-ecosystems

11. 4. Programs and policies
Goal: Exploit & enhance synergies between
ANH through operational and policy research
that supports
a) integrated community-level programming,
b) enabling policy environment

12. Evidence-based assumptions underpin
ASSUMPTIONS / HYPOTHESES
1. Nutrient dense foods can transform diets of the poor
2. Informal markets are most important and require
risk- and incentive based approaches
3. CGIAR research can work effectively at the demand
side: (pull mechanisms)
4. CGIAR research has potential for consumer
education, health

14. Risk Analysis & Economics
• In Vietnam, supermarkets
are not safer
• In India, where people see
how animals are killed,
quality is better
• In Nigeria, women butchers
sell safer meat
• In Kenya, recognising the
informal sector saves $26
million each year
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15. Risk management
Community based tsetse
control always works, never
sustainable
Improving food safety:
cheap & effective
Decision support tools for
early warning
Saving $ through One
Health approaches

16. Agriculture for improved nutrition and health