Unleashing Agriculture S Potential For Improved Nutrition And Health In Malawi Conference Report 26 27 September 2011 Lilongwe Malawi

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This conference focused on how agricultural strategies can best be tailored to the Malawian context and result in improvements for nutrition and health. It is crucially important to make linkages--the best agricultural practices will not succeed in improving the nation's nutritional status if there is not good nutritional care and access to health services.

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Genre : Technology & Engineering
Author : International Food Policy Research Institute
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 2012-03-30
File : 74 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780896297944


Agriculture Food Security And Nutrition In Malawi Leveraging The Links

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Although the Malawian food supply is shaped largely by trends in smallholder food crop production, Ma­lawi’s decades-long focus on improving smallholder productivity has only moderately improved food secu­rity and nutrition outcomes. Country statistics indicate an estimated 36.7 percent of rural Malawian house­holds failed to access sufficient calories between 2010 and 2011. During the same period, 47 percent of children under the age of five years were esti­mated to be stunted in their growth. These indicators imply that some Malawian diets are lacking in terms of quantity (total calories consumed), and most are lacking in terms of quality (sufficient calories derived from nutrient-dense foods, such as meat, fish, eggs, dairy, legumes, fruits, and vegetables). Good nutrition requires both enough total calories (quantity) and enough vitamins and minerals per calorie (quality). How can Malawi better leverage its smallholder agriculture sector to improve nutrition? This report provides a series of primary and secondary data anal­yses that examine different aspects of this question.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Aberman, Noora-Lisa
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release : 2018-02-22
File : 82 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780896292864