Private Sector Mechanism position paper on nutrition sensitive agriculture

Published on 12 January 2017, this position paper from the CFS Public Sector Mechanism highlights principles that enhance nutrition-sensitive agriculture: 

• Building policy environments that secure access to nutrient-dense food through sustainable production for achieving adequate, safe, nutritious, diverse, and affordable diets
• Supporting farmers with agricultural extension, access to inputs research, and other production-related productivity improvements
• Integrating smallholders in value chains
• Empowering women
• Supporting strategies on diversification, fortification and supplementation
• Educating and informing consumers
• Reducing rsik for agricultural investment and production
• Linking agriculture, nutrition and health communities