Learning the Smart Way: Lessons Learned by the Reaching Agents of Change Project

Mbabu, A.N.; Munyua, H.M.; Mulongo, Godfrey; David, Soniia; Brendin, M.

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“…There is significant scoping and preparation required before biofortified crops can be implemented. This is particularly evident in countries where the selected biofortified crop has not as yet been promoted [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The level of investment required for effective, sustained integration of biofortified crops is not well understood, but work on investment guidance has begun [10]. While encouraging evidence exists that less expensive models can be effective, it is unclear where the inflection point is or the extent of supportive programming that is necessary to facilitate high adoption and sustained cultivation of biofortified crops [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the case of sweet potato and cassava, vines and cuttings will need to be multiplied (probably by the "project"; unless there are local producers already doing this). The need for irrigation support for vine multiplication has also been noted [10]. In Mozambique biofortification projects paid for irrigated fields as a temporary solution because locally produced vines were not supplying enough material for start-up [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But when does cutting cost compromise results? Households in Ovata did not get OSP as effectively into child meals during the project (Figure 12.2), and the OSP adoption rate declined precipitously (from 48% to 12%) in some districts after the project had finished [10,15,18].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Another fifteen African countries have included biofortification in their agriculture development plans [9]. This high-level political support for biofortification opens the way to integration of biofortified crops within existing programming [10].…”

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Integrating biofortified crops into community development programs

MacDonald¹

2017

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Extensive research has demonstrated the effectiveness and acceptability of biofortification. There is now a need to establish effective, sustainable delivery systems for biofortified crops in countries with a high burden of micronutrient malnutrition. This requires country-level partnerships between national governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the private sector and research institutions. World Vision (WV) is an international NGO with experience integrating biofortified crops as an agriculturefor-nutrition intervention within rural development projects, most extensively in Mozambique, Burundi, and Uganda. In WV's experience, successful integration and uptake of biofortified crops within broader community development programs is reliant on key elements of both the enabling environment and the program design. The optimal mix and intensity of interventions is not yet known; implementation science research is needed to enhance understanding of the critical elements of successful adoption, intensification, scale-up and sustainability of biofortified crops, and the human, technical and financial resources required to achieve this and to contribute to the sustainable reduction of micronutrient malnutrition.

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Section: Program Design Elementsmentioning

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Section: Avoid Competition Between Biofortified and Traditional Variementioning

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Section: National Policy and Coordinationmentioning

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Integrating biofortified crops into community development programs

MacDonald¹

2017

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Advocacy for biofortification: Building stakeholder support, integration into regional and national policies, and sustaining momentum

Covic¹

2017

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Africa as a continent faces high prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies such as vitamin A, iron, and zinc. Biofortification offers a dietary agriculture-based strategy that has shown potential to address selected micronutrient deficiencies. This chapter describes how advocacy for biofortification by HarvestPlus and its partners has been structured, including a mix of evidence generation and sharing, stakeholder mapping, promotion to change attitudes, and efforts towards establishing Codex Alimentarius standards for biofortification. In addition, a review of African Union, Southern African Development Community, and country-level strategic policy documents on how biofortification is reflected in such documents for four country case studies, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia was conducted. The momentum that has been built for biofortification on the continent is in part attributed to salient advocacy that HarvestPlus and its partners have used to promote investment in biofortification and adoption by countries, to the extent that the original skepticism has dissipated and biofortified crops have been released in at least 22 African countries with plans for release in additional countries. Considerations and recommendations are suggested to inform the development of advocacy strategies at country, regional, and Africa continent levels, aimed at sustaining and accelerating the momentum for biofortification.

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Huggins²

2017

Agronomy for Development

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Learning the Smart Way: Lessons Learned by the Reaching Agents of Change Project

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Integrating biofortified crops into community development programs

Integrating biofortified crops into community development programs

Advocacy for biofortification: Building stakeholder support, integration into regional and national policies, and sustaining momentum

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