Inclusive value chains for scaled up food security and nutrition

Inclusive value chains for sustainable agriculture and scaled up food security and nutrition outcomes - background document.

Committee on World Food Security, September 2016

This report describes possible paths for the creation of nutrition-sensitive value chains (NSVCs) and provides some practical recommendations.The report considers that achieving positive nutritional outcomes requires consideration  of the way food is produced, processed, distributed, marketed and consumed. A useful framework is emerging to  identify entry points for policy, investment, and capacity development. The report identifies the nutrition problem, and its relation to excessive or insufficient consumption of key foods that compromise diet quality.  Based on whether the constraints are on the supply or demand side of the value-chain (VC), three diverse paths (strategies and policies) are suggested with examples of case studies and recommendations for the way forward.