1) The document discusses incorporating nutritional goals into agricultural value chains to improve both supply and demand for nutritious foods. 2) Value chains for nutrition start by clearly defining a nutritional problem and setting explicit nutrition goals, with the aim of creating "value for nutrition". 3) Examples are provided of how value chains can be developed, such as with orange-fleshed sweet potatoes in Mozambique, to improve nutrition outcomes while also addressing other development challenges in agriculture.

1. Value Chains for Nutrition
Dr Corinna Hawkes, Independent Consultant
Dr Marie Ruel, Director, Poverty, Health & Nutrition Division, IFPRI
With thanks to Robert Mazur, Andrew
Westby and the other case study authors
IFPRI 2020 Conference on “Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health,” New Delhi, February 10-12 2011

2. The Concept

3. From agricultural production for nutrition…
…to value chains for nutrition
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4. Why incorporate nutritional goals
into value chains?

5. Activities Actors
Inputs into production Crop breeders; extension services
Food production
4) Toagricultural laborers, a
Farmers,
Provide
Primary food storage and processing Framework to
Packers, millers, crushers, refiners
3) To Provide a Create foods manufacturers
Economic
Framework for
Secondary food processing Processed
Value and Value
Coordinated,
Food distribution, transport, and trade
for Importers, exporters, brokers,
Nutrition, while
Multisectoral
Food retailing and catering Informal retailers, supermarketthe
Addressing chains,
Solutions Trade-offs
Food promotion and labeling Advertising agencies
1) To 2) To
Food Food Food Food
Improve availability affordability quality acceptability Improve
Supply Demand
Food consumption and diet quality

6. Examples

7. Creating economic and nutritional
value from OFSP, Mozambique
With thanks to the University of Greenwich, UK

8. The Opportunity
The current focus on value chain
development for agriculture
provides an opportunity to build in
nutrition goals

9. But “value chains for nutrition”
need a nutrition-focus…
• Start with a clear definition of the
nutritional problem
• Have explicit nutrition goals
• Create “value for nutrition”

10. Conclusion
Value chains can be developed
to improve nutrition outcomes
while also providing solutions to
development challenges in other
sectors, not least, in agriculture