Thank you Takele Teshome for your contribution. Rightly said about importance of proper land use planning and cropping pattern as well as creating nutrition awareness and building linkages among different stakeholders towards achieving food and nutritional security. Regarding sustainability of nutrition awareness programs, I would like to share one example from our study. Besides having workshops and meetings, we are also conducting training programs to build capacity of local men and women (Known as "Community Hunger Fighters") on nutrition related messages such as balanced diet, importance of hygiene and sanitation, nutritive value of different foods, food requirement at different stages of life cycle as well as different ways of linking agriculture to nutrition, knowledge of entitlements on agriculture, food and nutrition in the area, so that they diffuse the message within and outside the community.
We also have nutrition garden interventions in schools and ICDS centres where different groups of vegetables are grown and the produce is going towards the Mid Day Meal.
Thanks.
Aliza
Aliza Pradhan