Healthy Food for a Healthy WorldLeveraging Agriculture and Food to Improve Global Nutrition

Catherine BertiniDistinguished Fellow, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs,Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University

2003 World Food Prize Laureate

28 October 2015

About The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

• An independent and non-partisan convener around global issues.

• Provides expert-endorsed thought leadership.

• Offers new thinking on policy issues related to agricultural development.

Sources: IFPRI, 2014; Nugent, 2011

Food systems can improve nutrition through:

• Productivity and crop diversity• Farmers’ and workers’ incomes• Women’s empowerment• Postharvest processing and food waste• Food marketing and retail• Food safety

Women are critical to improving nutrition.• 60% of the world’s 795 million chronically undernourished are women

and girls.

• If women farmers have access to the same productive resources as men:• Production on women farms would increase by 20-30%.• 150 million more people would have food to eat.

• Women influence nutrition because of their roles as mothers and as the family’s primary meal provider

Healthy Food for a Healthy WorldRecommendations

• Strengthen policies to support nutrition-sensitive food systems.

• Expand the research agenda for nutrition-sensitive food systems.

• Prepare the next generation of leaders in food and nutrition security.

• Develop public-private partnerships for nutrition-sensitive food systems.

Anne Thurow

Strengthen policies to support nutrition-sensitive food systems.

• Commit to a long-term global food and nutrition security strategy.

• Ensure that food aid and social protection programs improve access to healthy foods.

• Align government investments in nutrition and ramp up transdisciplinary research and programs.

Anne Thurow

Expand the research agenda for nutrition-sensitive food systems.

• Invest in research to improve access to diverse, healthy foods.

• Measure the nutrition and health impacts of agricultural development programs.

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Prepare the next generation of leaders in food and nutrition security.

• Invest in transforming universities, research institutions, and training facilities.

• Create a prize fund for food system innovations to modernize knowledge exchange.

• Provide training to Peace Corps volunteers to incorporate nutrition-sensitive activities into their outreach work.

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• Leverage private-sector investment to reduce postharvest loss and increase primary processing and fortification.

• Promote voluntary guidelines to limit food and beverage marketing to children.

• Increase technical assistance on food safety through trade hubs in Africa.

• Fund accelerator programs to encourage entrepreneurial activity in food systems.

Develop public-private partnerships to supportnutrition-sensitive food systems.

Thank You

To read the report, please visitwww.thechicagocouncil.org/globalagdevelopment

To request a copy, please contactLisa Moon at Lmoon@thechicagocouncil.org