A roadmap towards investing in agriculture, food security and nutrition. Presented at the Agriculture Nutrition Linkages Seminar in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the 18th of April, 2012.

1. Agriculture
for Improved
Nutrition & Health
CGIAR Research Program 4
Lead Center:
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI
ILRI
BIOVERSITY
CIAT
CIMMYT
CIP
ICARDA
ICRAF
ICRISAT
IITA
IWMI
WORLD FISH

2. CRP4 Conceptual Framework
Health
1. Enhancing 3. Prevention &
CRP4’s strategic goal:
Nutrition along 4. Integrated Control of Ag-
the Value Chain Programs and Policies Associated
Accelerate progress in improving the nutrition and
Diseases
Nutrition
health of poor people by leveraging agriculture and
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

3. Initial Research Priorities
NUTRITIONAL VALUE CHAINS
• overall framework and assessment of opportunities for different food
systems
• co-develop specific value chain opportunities with key actors
BIO-FORTIFICATION
• continue bio-fortified crop development and evaluation
• enhance spillovers - new countries and commercial value chains
AGRICULTURE-ASSOCIATED DISEASES
• aflatoxin risks and their mitigation
• prioritization of food safety and zoonotic risks and their mitigation and
trade-offs in intensifying production systems and evolving value chains
INTEGRATED PROGRAMS AND POLICIES
• continue to strengthen program evaluation with new cross-sectoral metrics
and approaches
• cross-sectoral priorities and policies with key partners in SSA and South Asia

4. Program Impact Pathways
Outputs Research Development
Outcomes Outcomes
• Biofortified & nutrient-rich
foods available & accessible
to the poor 1. VALUE CHAINS:
• Knowledge & technologies •Producers
to improve quality & safety •Chain agents
Impacts
of foods along value chains Value chains that
Implementers
developed • Media & consumer groups provide more Improved
• Better, more cost-effective
•Regulators nutritious & safer nutrition
integrated ANH program food
models & capacity
& health,
strengthened 2. DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS: especially
• Strong evidence of the role •Development program among
of integrated ANH programs implementers(gov’t , NGOs) women &
in improving health &
nutrition •Public health program Better integrated young
• Good practices in integrated
implementers ANH programs children
ANH policymaking applied
Enablers
• Cross sectoral work 3. POLICY: Better cross-
incentivized •Policymakers & investors sectoral policy,
• Capacity for joint •Inter-gov’t agencies regulation &
policymaking strengthened investment

5. Partnerships
PARTNERSHIP STRATEGY
Developed during inception phase (stakeholder mapping, landscape analysis, roadmap, plan
of action, monitoring and tracking system; partnership engagement and
development process)
PRINCIPLES
Value addition, shared goals, mutual accountability, respect, guidelines for communication
ENABLERS VALUE CHAIN ACTORS &
Policy/decision makers, e.g. inter-
gov’t, gov’t, international, regional, REPRESENTATIVES
subregional, civil society, etc. Private sector, public/private
initiatives, associations
DEVELOPMENT and groups RESEARCH PARTNERS
IMPLEMENTERS International and national
Gov’t, UN, NGOs, civil society, farmers academic, research institutions
groups

6. CGIAR Nutrition & Health in Bangladesh
Programs and Policies
Nutritious Value Chains
• Wide array of CGIAR H
•ealth
Grounded in Investment Plan
• Coordinated by IFPRI Bangladesh
commodity center chains
1. Enhancing Policy Research Prevention &
3. & Strategy
(staples, pulses, fish, milk) 4. Integrated Control of Ag-
Nutrition along Support Program
• Assess nutritional up-scaling Programs and Policies portfolio Associated
the Value Chain • Strong of agriculture,
• Nutrition standards / testing Diseases
food security, nutrition & social
• N
Opportunities for enhancing utrition
2. Bio- protection evaluation
demand – commercial value
fortification • Policy support / capacity
chains and social protection
Agriculture
Social Behavior Change and
Communications Agriculture-associated Diseases
Biofortification • Some past CGIAR actions (e.g
All components
• Bangladesh is focal country arsenic)
for zinc-enhanced rice • Potential for more integrated
Improved
• Delivery of other bio-fortified
availability,
Increased
labor
Increased Increased
Decreased risk food safety support (risk-based)
knowledge
access, intake
foods (OFSP, Fe-Beans, …) productivity
of AAD
• Potentialand
income
policy, strategy and
gender equity of nutrition,
of nutritious, food safety
practice support – zoonoses and
safe foods
environmental diseases
RESULT: Improved nutrition and health, especially among women and young children