Enormous thanks to all contributors so far. It is really encouraging to see many people engaging in this discussion and contributing some valuable thoughts and sharing experiences from their own work.
With just a few days left of this discussion topic (ending Wed. Oct 3), we'd like to strongly encourage anyone who has wanted to contribute but hasn't found the time to please do so even briefly!
To summarize recent responses briefly, many have placed high priority on empowering women, effective nutrition education, ecological approaches to production, diversification, reduction of food waste and decreasing post-harvest losses, improving lines of communication between stakeholders, and capacity building. Likewise, there are lots of good ideas for research and support around those (and other) themes.
One theme that has not come up much so far in this Forum discussion is the concept of "doing no harm". Could correcting harms of current policies or approaches be just as important, if not more so, as capturing new opportunities to make agriculture work better for nutrition? There have been a few comments expressing concern about the potential harms to environment and local culture. How can these (or others not yet mentioned in the discussion) translate into advice that you would give to a director of planning for agriculture for policy and programmes to improve nutrition by avoiding harm?
All the best and we look forward to hearing many comments (even very brief ones) in the final few days of the discussion.
Enormous thanks to all contributors so far. It is really encouraging to see many people engaging in this discussion and contributing some valuable thoughts and sharing experiences from their own work.
With just a few days left of this discussion topic (ending Wed. Oct 3), we'd like to strongly encourage anyone who has wanted to contribute but hasn't found the time to please do so even briefly!
To summarize recent responses briefly, many have placed high priority on empowering women, effective nutrition education, ecological approaches to production, diversification, reduction of food waste and decreasing post-harvest losses, improving lines of communication between stakeholders, and capacity building. Likewise, there are lots of good ideas for research and support around those (and other) themes.
One theme that has not come up much so far in this Forum discussion is the concept of "doing no harm". Could correcting harms of current policies or approaches be just as important, if not more so, as capturing new opportunities to make agriculture work better for nutrition? There have been a few comments expressing concern about the potential harms to environment and local culture. How can these (or others not yet mentioned in the discussion) translate into advice that you would give to a director of planning for agriculture for policy and programmes to improve nutrition by avoiding harm?
All the best and we look forward to hearing many comments (even very brief ones) in the final few days of the discussion.
Anna and Cristina