5-Day Mastery in Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture for Sustainable Food Abundance

One of the major causes of malnutrition in Africa is the lack of basic knowledge on nutrition and the lack of food security to provide nutrients. Nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA) is the integration of nutrition and agriculture to achieve food and nutrition security. This knowledge impacted households and communities through training on nutrition-sensitive agriculture will assist in reducing and preventing the effects of poverty which lead to hunger, disease, and death. It has become clear that there is no nutrition education without agriculture and no agricultural education without nutrition as they both complement each other in addressing food and nutrition insecurity. Training communities on NSA will impart knowledge and skills to the rural communities to strengthen their livelihoods through the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that maximize resources.

To improve the nutritional status in the community there is a need for sustainable food production at the household level with the optimal use of resources such as space, water, and other inputs while considering the environment in the areas of waste management. These therefore call for training in the areas of food production, food storage, nutritional requirements, food preparation, food preservation, and food safety.  These will ensure food diversity, food availability, and food accessibility to achieve food and nutrition security.

Duration

5 Days

Training objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Strengthen their nutrition knowledge and skills and introduce key concepts in nutrition-sensitive agriculture
• Understand the concept of nutrition-sensitive agriculture
• Outline specific ways that agriculture can support improved nutrition
• Articulate key information on the social and economic impact of malnutrition
• Explain why a multi-sectoral approach to address malnutrition is needed
• Integrate nutrition into agriculture and food security programming.

  Who should attend?

• Development program managers
• Ministry and lower-level government officials engaged in agriculture, nutrition, or multi-sectoral work in their countries
• Agriculture workers,
• Health workers
• Community leaders,
• Is anyone interested in cross-sectoral collaboration and/or cross-training in agriculture and nutrition? 

Course outline

Module 1: Importance of Nutrition to the Communities

• Overview of the relationship between agriculture and nutrition
• key concepts of nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions
• Benefits of healthy eating
• Principles of nutrition (Micro and Macro nutrients)
• Guide to healthy eating
• Nutrients
• Nutrition and health (Nutritional Disorders)
• Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions

Module 2: Food production

• How does agriculture affect nutrition
• Ways to improve nutrition through Agriculture
• Land preparation
• Planting methods
• Management practice
• Crop protection practices
• Fertilizer Management
• Irrigation water management
• Harvesting
• Basic Nutrition Diets
• Basic of food safety (handling, storage.)

Module 3: Food safety Meal planning and Management

• Food preparation
• Energy saving technologies

Module 4: Nutrition in the Life Cycle

• Diet and nutrition changes during Childhood
• Diet and nutrition changes during Puberty
• Diet and Nutrition Changes in Late Adolescence
• Diet and Nutrition Changes in Young Adulthood
• Diet and Nutrition Changes in Middle-Age
• Diet and Nutrition Changes in the Older Adult Years

Module 5: Value addition

• Understanding Nutritive- Sensitive Value Chain approaches (e.g. biofortification, nutrient-preserving storage and transport, and nutrition signaling and labeling).
• Case study on a real-life example of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program

TRAINING CUSTOMIZATION

This training can also be customized for your institution upon request. You can also have it delivered to your preferred location.

REQUIREMENTS

Participants should be reasonably proficient in English.  During the training, participants should come with their laptops.

TRAINING FEE

Cost:

In-person USD 1000

Online USD 900

Registration

January in-person/online

April in-person/online

July in-person/online

October in-person/online

Payment should be transferred to FineResults Research Services bank account one week before the training date and proof of payment sent to our email

For any registration of 3 or more participants; we offer a discount of up to 10%.

This course fee covers the course tuition, training materials, two break refreshments, lunch, and study visits for in-person training.

CANCELLATION POLICY

• All requests for cancellations must be received in writing.
• Changes will become effective on the date of written confirmation being received.

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