The representative of the Private Sector, Katarina Eriksson, Senior Project & Partnership Development Manager at Tetra Laval, presented a school milk project that focuses simultaneously on reduction of malnutrition and on job creation in Thailand by developing local milk production.
Katarina Eriksson, Senior Project & Partnership Development Manager at Tetra Laval at SIANI Annual Meeting 2014
1. School Milk
Linked to Local Production
SIANI members meeting
Katarina Eriksson, Tetra Laval Food for Development Office
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3. Benefits of aseptic technology
No
refrigeration or
preservatives needed
6-12
months shelf life
“The most important food science
advancement of the 20th Century.”
Institute of Food Technologists 1989
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4. Tetra Pak and School Feeding Programmes
► >50
years experience
► 62
countries (2012)
► 67
million children (2012)
► Mainly
milk
► Mainly
government funding
Zambia
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5. Tetra Laval Food for Development Office
Knowledge Center
School Feeding
Dairy Development
Partnerships along the value chain
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6. Why School Milk?
Health and nutrition
Academic results
School attendance/enrolment
Develop agriculture & private
sector
Create jobs
Grow commercial market
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7. Impact on Dairy Sector
Thailand
250,000 jobs created
Kenya
Milk drinking generation
Developed dairy industry
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8. Impact on Health and Education
Vietnam
Height and weight increased more
(than for children not receiving school milk)
Pakistan
Girls’ enrolment up 87%
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17. Milk for Schools Pilot Programme:
18,000 children got milk 3 times/week
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18. Zambia Milk for Schools Project
Results after 2 years
Increased attendance and
enrolment. Increased pass
rates. Higher BMI
Increase in milk collected
from small holders
Partnerships established and
model proved
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19. We Need Partners
► Customers
► Governments
► International
Development Agencies
► UN Agencies
► Agriculture
and Nutrition Networks
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20. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Katarina M Eriksson
Senior Project and Partnership Development Manager
Tetra Laval Food for Development Office (Stockholm)
Mob: +46 70 679 00 14
Katarinam.eriksson@tetralaval.com
www.tetrapak.com/ffdo
Tetra Laval FfDO January 2014
Notes de l'éditeur
The Food for Development Office is a knowledgecentreworking with schoolfeeding and dairydevelopmentbuilding on the groupslongexperience.Wefocus on developingcountries and facilitate the partnershipsnecessary to develop the wholedairyvaluechain.
School milk programmes helpcountriesdevelop the wholedairysector.In Thailand it is estimated that 250 thousandjobshavebeencreatedas a result of a nation wideschoolmilkprogramme.In Kenya, 20 years of schoolmilkduring the 80’s and 90’s led to major investments in the dairyindustry and a high per capita milkconsumption that the country still benefits from.
In Vietnam it wasshown that children on the schoolmilkprogrammegrew 8% morethanotherchildren.In Pakistan, girl’sschoolenrolment in the Ghotkidistrict almost doubled after the introduction of schoolmilk.
If you allowme to generalise, in manycountriesthere are two parallell valuechains, one for the poor and one for the rich.Small holder farmers sellunprocessedmilkdirectly to or throughmiddle men to poorconsumers.The dairyindustrybuys from big farms or imports milkpowder and sellsthroughretailers to richconsumers.
Theintegrateddairyvaluechainincludesalso small holder farmers and the industrysuppliesaffordableproducts of goodquality to all consumers. Wehavedevelopedtwoways of stimulating this development: By helpingourdairycustomers access more small holdermilkthroughdevelopment of dairyhubsBy supportingdevelopment of schoolmilk programmes usinglocallyproducedmilk
Whenworking with dairydevelopment, ourcolleagues from DeLaval are the experts, with knowledge of how to develop all kinds of milkproductionincluding small holderproduction.The dairyhubconcept is a way to link small holder farmers to the industry. A dedicateddairy processor guarantees to buy all theirmilkif it holds a certainquality.
This is how it is organised. Small holder farmers deliver to villagecollectioncentres and the milk is taken from thesecentres to a Central collectioncentrewhere the dairy picks up the milk. Farmers receivetraining, inputs and services. The key is to build trust and to develop the milkproduction step by step, starting with the efforts that givemostresults in farmer income.
These are examples of results in the first dairyhub in Bangladesh after 30 months.Most important is that farmershave almost doubledtheiraverageincomes.
The mainissues that Tetra Pak wanted to address by initiating a schoolmilkprogramme in Zambia was the verylowmilkconsumption in the country, compared to neighbouringcountries, the widespread malnutrition amongchildren and the need to develop small holdermilkproduction.
WFP and the governmenthadintroduced nation wideschoolfeedfingbased on localingredients – the Home grownschoolfeedingprogramme. Milk nowbecame a new ingredientbesides the localmaizeporridge, beans and oil, addingmuchneeded nutrition.
The pilot programmecovered 18,000 children ingrades 1-9 in a rural district 4 hours from the capital. This is a region wheremanychildrenhadneverhadmilk to drink before.Children received a portion of milk 3 times per week.Weintroducedourimplementationmodelincludingstrictmonitoring systems and data collection.
After twoyearsmorechildren go to schoolmoreoften.Schoolshavehad to serve milk on randomdays, otherwisemanychildren come to school just on milkdays. The childrenalsoperformbetter and growbetter.The dairy is collectingmoremilk from small holders. A model that can be scaled up has beenproved.
Weneed partners to dotheseprojects.Except for ourcustomers, the dairies, weneed to cooperate with governments and sometimes with development and UN agencies.For knowledgesharing and partner search, wealsodepend on the networkingfacilitated by for examle SIANI and otheragriculture and nutrition networks.
In conclusion, partnerships and networking is crucial for us in ourefforts to develop new projects. Wehope that SIANI cancontinue to be a goodplatform for us in Sweden and internationallythroughwhichwecan get contact with new potential partners and share and get access to relevant information.THANK YOU!