Sra. Mar Maestre
- Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia (LANSA): research partnership working together to research how agriculture and food-related interventions can be better designed to improve nutrition, particularly for children and adolescent girls in South Asia. My area of research assesses the effectiveness of agri-food value chain-based interventions in delivering nutrition outcomes for poor people in rural areas in three countries (India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). It will involve ten case studies in the three countries, analysing, among others, the role rural women play in agri-food value chains, both as consumers and producers (in terms of gender and access to food, household decision-making and workloads, and innovation along value chains). The initial findings will be ready by September 2016 (http://lansasouthasia.org/)
- Urbanisation and changing food systems: addressing the nutrition transition: new research on the interlinking challenges that urban areas face when creating a sustainable and nutrient-rich food system. We focus on four cities or towns from Africa and South Asia to understand how migration and mobility, informality and pluralism and household decision-making interact with food and nutrition
- Market Systems and Unpaid Care work: DFID and SDC funded research that assesses how unpaid care work interacts with value chain development interventions, providing guidance to donors, such as IFAD, to understand what unpaid care work is and how it interacts with markets, along with tools for analysis and practical examples of programme interventions that target problematic aspects of care through facilitation approaches. Attached the draft report and policy brief (still pending to be edited and formatted by the communications team) (https://beamexchange.org/practice/research/womens-economic-empowerment/…)
Sra. Mar Maestre
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.