Firstly we must agree with Ms. Dianna DaSilva-Glasgow post, (who’s also from Guyana) and further say that indeed it is vital for any economy to match production with consumption.
With that said, below are our contributions to this interesting question:
“If you were designing an agricultural investment programme, what are the top 5 things you would do to maximize its impact on nutrition?”
1) Recommend an inventory of the current situation of the country’s nutritional condition so as to make a proper evaluation. (By so doing it can be clear as to what really people are eating either too much of or too little of and if the portion sizes and quantities are sufficient or not).
2) Promote the sustainable production, processing, preparation, commercialization and consumption of safe, affordable, nutritious, high quality foods. Proper food control measures can be put in place to help prevent things like food contamination through food handling and so forth.
3) Another way to maximize the agricultural investment programme’s impact on nutrition is to specifically target the percentage of people in poverty (be it large/small) by helping them to have easy ACCESS to nutritional foods. The Government can provide food stamps and food vouchers or discount vouchers (of course this will be applicable to countries that may not have these measures in place).
4) Promote an increase in the institutional coordination and functioning for improved nutrition. Often times many countries do not have “that” collaboration among the agricultural institutions that is needed to effectively and efficiently execute programmes.
5) Finally, Education is the most essential tool that can be used to improve nutrition in any country. The emphasis on improving health lies solely with how the citizens view nutrition. Community-based nutrition programmes can be implemented in varying areas in the country so as to make people aware of the importance of nutrition to everyone’s life.
Greetings from Guyana!
Firstly we must agree with Ms. Dianna DaSilva-Glasgow post, (who’s also from Guyana) and further say that indeed it is vital for any economy to match production with consumption.
With that said, below are our contributions to this interesting question:
“If you were designing an agricultural investment programme, what are the top 5 things you would do to maximize its impact on nutrition?”
1) Recommend an inventory of the current situation of the country’s nutritional condition so as to make a proper evaluation. (By so doing it can be clear as to what really people are eating either too much of or too little of and if the portion sizes and quantities are sufficient or not).
2) Promote the sustainable production, processing, preparation, commercialization and consumption of safe, affordable, nutritious, high quality foods. Proper food control measures can be put in place to help prevent things like food contamination through food handling and so forth.
3) Another way to maximize the agricultural investment programme’s impact on nutrition is to specifically target the percentage of people in poverty (be it large/small) by helping them to have easy ACCESS to nutritional foods. The Government can provide food stamps and food vouchers or discount vouchers (of course this will be applicable to countries that may not have these measures in place).
4) Promote an increase in the institutional coordination and functioning for improved nutrition. Often times many countries do not have “that” collaboration among the agricultural institutions that is needed to effectively and efficiently execute programmes.
5) Finally, Education is the most essential tool that can be used to improve nutrition in any country. The emphasis on improving health lies solely with how the citizens view nutrition. Community-based nutrition programmes can be implemented in varying areas in the country so as to make people aware of the importance of nutrition to everyone’s life.