Sowing the seeds of good nutrition. Making agricultural policies deliver better nutrition

Linking agriculture with nutrition and improving the nutritional impact of agriculture programmes and interventions are topics of growing interst in the international agenda (see ROSA Newsletter 46). The objective of this report is to assess to what extent this global agenda is actually translating into action at country level.

The authors analysed the agricultural policy frameworks of three countries that have recently committed to improving the alignment of their agricultural policies with their commitments to reducing undernutrition: Burkina Faso, Kenya and Peru. The case studies are based on the following questions: i) How do national agricultural policies integrate nutrition issues? ii) What are the main constraints to improving the contribution of agriculture policies to the reduction of undernutrition? iii) How could these constraints be alleviated?

An executive summary and country-bases case studied can be dowloaded from ACF website:

- Kenya case study

- Peru case study

- Burkina Faso case study (in French)

- Résumé en français

ACF, Cirad, Gret - September 2013