المنتدى العالمي المعني بالأمن الغذائي والتغذية

Dear all, 

Following the post below from Sangeetha, I want to highlight the role that markets, informal sector and SMEs play in ensuring nutrition-sensitive value chains. 

On the framework we have developed, as part of LANSA, we have focused on assessing the pathways for delivery of nutritious foods (what we are calling post-farm gate). The framework can be used by practitioners, donors, policy makers, to understand how to make agricultural value chains and markets more efficient when delivering nutritious food. It starts assessing the value chain from the consumer  perspective (analysing if the targeted households are choosing to purchase and eat the nutrient-dense target food) and then assesses the supply side (looking if tehre are aligned interests for actors, both private and public, to produce and distribute the products). 

The framework has been used for 12 case studies in South Asia, assessing different market pathways (food fortifcation, promotion of dairy value chains, social enterprises, public-private partnerships, pulibc distribution of food). We will be presententing the initial findings on 25-26 April, including all the example and specific recommendations. Please, RSVP by 17th April to confirm you place.