Spencer Henson and John Humphrey Institute of Development Studies Brighton UK Our choices Focus on micronutrient undernourishment hidden hunger Foodbased approaches Postfarmgate not onfarm consumption ID: 288900
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The Influence of Agro-Food Policies and Programmes on the Availability, Affordability, Safety and Acceptability of Food
Spencer
Henson and John Humphrey
Institute of Development Studies,
Brighton, UKSlide3
Our choices
Focus on micronutrient undernourishment – hidden hunger
Food-based approaches
Post-farmgate, not on-farm consumption
Urban households; non-farm rural households; farm households that buy food in markets, seasonally or year-round, etc.
Market-based approaches.
Businesses of all types and sizes
Enhancing the nutritional functioning of agri-food value chains
Is there is unrealised potential to mobilise business for combating micronutrient deficiencies amongst the poor?Slide4
Food-based options for improving micronutrient intake
Fortification of Staple Foods – oil, flour, etc.
Biofortification – orange fleshed sweet potato
Agronomic biofortification – zinc-enhanced fertiliser
Targeted fortified foods:
Foods with added
nutrient packages
– Shokti
doi
Complementary foods for children
Lipid-based supplements for regular consumption
Increasing dietary diversitySlide5
Essential outcomes for food-based approaches to nutrition
Food is safe
Food maintains nutritional quality and benefits up to the point of consumption
Food is consumed by the populations whose nutritional deficits are being targeted by the interventionSlide6
Requirements for successfuly selling foods rich in micronutrients
Nutrition
awareness
– buyers understand importance of
foods
Signalling
– people believe foods have the claimed
benefits. Nutrient content is often a ʺcredence characteristicʺAcceptability – people are willing to prepare and eat the product
Availability
–physically availability in places where the target populations can purchase it
Affordability
– target populations must be able to purchase it
Adapted from, Hawkes
, C. and Ruel, M.T.
'Value
Chains for Nutrition', paper presented at Conference
‘Leveraging
Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and
Health’,
New Delhi,
February 2011Slide7
Business challenges for selling nutritious foods
Meet the five requirements
Capturing value:
Credence good
issues
Risks and uncertainties of innovation
Value chain integrity: food safety and quality issuesSlide8
Minimise the challenges
Sidestep the acceptability challenge
Use existing distribution channels wherever possible, and avoid products that require careful handling and preservation
Avoid the signalling problem altogether – for example, compulsory fortification – or focusing on foods whose characteristics are more evident: fresh fruit and vegetables
Combat fraudulent claims through branding and certification and certification
Dietary diversity
Staples fortification
Supplementary foodsBiofortificationAgronomic biofortification Slide9
Policy initiatives: offset costs or defray risks
Nutrition awareness programmes and demand promotion
Use of public distribution: feeding programmes
Advance commitments to enable companies to get to scale
Support for value chain integrity, particularly for food safety at the farm level
Slide10
Concluding remarkss
What role for the informal sector
Consider
more focus on improving quality and safety of informal sector provision of nutrient-rich food
Keep it simple. Minimise the challenges
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of
business-promoting
interventions
is varied and requires more impact assessment