Increasing the nutritional impacts of agricultural interventions

Study provides information on program and policy options. The findings and recommendations are based on an extensive review of the literature as well as interviews with researchers, USAID managers and other development and donor organizations. The review focuses on four countries: Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Uganda.

Recommendations include:

• developing nutrition strategies that can be explicitly addressed by agricultural interventions including family planning, HIV/AIDS prevention and reporting, vitamin A supplementation, integrated management of childhood illness, education on breastfeeding and oral rehydration, vaccinations, and institutional development of health services
• greater interaction between agricultural and health sector managers that could promote better program integration, and should be encouraged
• program design decisions should be based on knowledge of local macronutrient and micronutrient deficiencies or other nutrition issues