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Prof. Rohan Rajapakse      Dr. Disna Ratnasekara
Acting Vice Chairman,   Head/ Dept. of Agricultural
University Grants
Commission
                                          Biology,
Colombo,                   Faculty of Agriculture,
Sri Lanka.                  University of Ruhuna,
The relation ship between agriculture and
health may seen intuitive and simple grow
more crops and people will have more food and
live healthier lives. But because agriculture and
health policies are rarely coordinated, the
reality is far more complex.

Most of the poor in Sri Lanka are farmers and
farm workers, who depend on agriculture for
their livelihoods, including the income needed
to buy health services. Threats to agriculture
become threats to health.
The idea of linking food security and nutrition
components into agriculture is not new.
Effective approaches for incorporating
nutrition goals into agriculture and rural
development projects were recognized as
necessary a decade ago, but effective
approaches for doing so in an
operationally acceptable way were not
available.
Many developing countries are enthusiastic
about the possibility of achieving nutrition
goals through the agricultural sector.
Research on above in Sri Lanka have identified
certain types of agricultural programmes that
were more successful than others in achieving
food security and nutrition objectives. These
include;
a. Expansion of cash crop production.
b. Introduction of hybrid varieties.
c. Creation of effective and appropriate
    extension services.
d. Making available agricultural credit to male
   and female producers.

e. Expansion of food crop production.
These programmes were able to reach the
lowest income households, which were often
the households most at risk nutritionally.
It is clear from available studies that as
household income is increased, there is an
improvement in both the quality and quantity
of the household’s diet.
Increasing income at the household level,
however, is not sufficient to alleviate
malnutrition.

Whether increased income translates into
improved household and individual nutrition
depends on a variety of factors including.

How much of the increase is spent on
nutritious food, how the increased quantity
and quality of food is distributed among family
members, and what the health and hygiene
levels are of individual family members.
The key to tacking these problems lies in better
integration of health and agricultural
interventions and policy.
For example, irrigation projects that increase
yields may unintentionally encourage diseases
such as malaria or schistosomiasis.

In Sri Lanka, intensification projects that have
introduced both irrigation and pig production
have created ideal conditions for Japanese
encephalitis, whose mosquito vectors breed in
ditches and use pigs as alternative hosts.
The purpose of agriculture is not just to
grow crops and livestock, but to grow
healthy, well-nourished people.


Farmers produce a wide range of goods,
including one of their ultimate tasks is
to produce food of sufficient quantity to
feed all.
There is growing evidence of increasing
malnutrition in Sri Lanka. The rising prices of
food are likely to aggravate this situation,
especially in households that do not produce
food.

Although the country does not have serious
food shortages malnutrition affects nearly
one-third of children and one quarter of
women.
Agricultural growth could contribute to
reduction of poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
Poverty and food insecurity are largely problems
in the rural and estate areas in Sri Lanka.
1. The development of Sri Lanka’s agriculture
   requires many thrusts. There has to be much
   more investment in research and rural
   infrastructure development.
2. The agricultural extension services that are
   hardly serving its purpose should be reformed
   and reconstituted.
3. The problems of marketing of agricultural
   produce have to be resolved by developing
   storage and milling capacity, promoting
   competition and improving transport
   facilities.
4. There should be more constructive private
   sector-public sector collaboration. Land
   policies require to be reformed in the context
   of current situations to permit land use on the
   basis of economic returns.
5. Productivity increases in agriculture could
   play an important role in the reduction of
   poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
Targeted food price subsidies are a popular
and common type of intervention aimed at
increasing food consumption of poor
households.
The real incomes of the poor, which generally
results in higher expenditures on food.
Subsidy programmes are attractive policy
instruments because they are highly visible
and allow governments to reach a large
number of poor people easily.
 Provide credit to women in rural areas where
  agricultural activities are developed.
 Target agricultural extension activities to women.
 In Sri Lanka, women are actively involved in many
  aspects of food crop production (and increasingly
  in cash crop production). Extension activities
  geared to women, therefore, could result in
  increased food production that would benefit
  household food security, as well as provide an
  increase in the income of women.
There has been a lack of focus on agricultural
biodiversity and on food systems as a whole.

Our results suggest that farmer-focused
initiatives that are food-systems based can
sustainably improve dietary diversity and
improve micronutrient levels in the diet of
poor and vulnerable populations resulting
improved nutrition.
Leveraging agriculture, nutrition and health: Some cases from Sri Lanka

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Leveraging agriculture, nutrition and health: Some cases from Sri Lanka

  • 1. Prof. Rohan Rajapakse Dr. Disna Ratnasekara Acting Vice Chairman, Head/ Dept. of Agricultural University Grants Commission Biology, Colombo, Faculty of Agriculture, Sri Lanka. University of Ruhuna,
  • 2. The relation ship between agriculture and health may seen intuitive and simple grow more crops and people will have more food and live healthier lives. But because agriculture and health policies are rarely coordinated, the reality is far more complex. Most of the poor in Sri Lanka are farmers and farm workers, who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, including the income needed to buy health services. Threats to agriculture become threats to health.
  • 3. The idea of linking food security and nutrition components into agriculture is not new. Effective approaches for incorporating nutrition goals into agriculture and rural development projects were recognized as necessary a decade ago, but effective approaches for doing so in an operationally acceptable way were not available.
  • 4. Many developing countries are enthusiastic about the possibility of achieving nutrition goals through the agricultural sector. Research on above in Sri Lanka have identified certain types of agricultural programmes that were more successful than others in achieving food security and nutrition objectives. These include; a. Expansion of cash crop production. b. Introduction of hybrid varieties. c. Creation of effective and appropriate extension services.
  • 5. d. Making available agricultural credit to male and female producers. e. Expansion of food crop production. These programmes were able to reach the lowest income households, which were often the households most at risk nutritionally. It is clear from available studies that as household income is increased, there is an improvement in both the quality and quantity of the household’s diet.
  • 6. Increasing income at the household level, however, is not sufficient to alleviate malnutrition. Whether increased income translates into improved household and individual nutrition depends on a variety of factors including. How much of the increase is spent on nutritious food, how the increased quantity and quality of food is distributed among family members, and what the health and hygiene levels are of individual family members.
  • 7. The key to tacking these problems lies in better integration of health and agricultural interventions and policy. For example, irrigation projects that increase yields may unintentionally encourage diseases such as malaria or schistosomiasis. In Sri Lanka, intensification projects that have introduced both irrigation and pig production have created ideal conditions for Japanese encephalitis, whose mosquito vectors breed in ditches and use pigs as alternative hosts.
  • 8. The purpose of agriculture is not just to grow crops and livestock, but to grow healthy, well-nourished people. Farmers produce a wide range of goods, including one of their ultimate tasks is to produce food of sufficient quantity to feed all.
  • 9. There is growing evidence of increasing malnutrition in Sri Lanka. The rising prices of food are likely to aggravate this situation, especially in households that do not produce food. Although the country does not have serious food shortages malnutrition affects nearly one-third of children and one quarter of women.
  • 10. Agricultural growth could contribute to reduction of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Poverty and food insecurity are largely problems in the rural and estate areas in Sri Lanka. 1. The development of Sri Lanka’s agriculture requires many thrusts. There has to be much more investment in research and rural infrastructure development. 2. The agricultural extension services that are hardly serving its purpose should be reformed and reconstituted.
  • 11. 3. The problems of marketing of agricultural produce have to be resolved by developing storage and milling capacity, promoting competition and improving transport facilities. 4. There should be more constructive private sector-public sector collaboration. Land policies require to be reformed in the context of current situations to permit land use on the basis of economic returns. 5. Productivity increases in agriculture could play an important role in the reduction of poverty, hunger and malnutrition.
  • 12. Targeted food price subsidies are a popular and common type of intervention aimed at increasing food consumption of poor households. The real incomes of the poor, which generally results in higher expenditures on food. Subsidy programmes are attractive policy instruments because they are highly visible and allow governments to reach a large number of poor people easily.
  • 13.  Provide credit to women in rural areas where agricultural activities are developed.  Target agricultural extension activities to women.  In Sri Lanka, women are actively involved in many aspects of food crop production (and increasingly in cash crop production). Extension activities geared to women, therefore, could result in increased food production that would benefit household food security, as well as provide an increase in the income of women.
  • 14. There has been a lack of focus on agricultural biodiversity and on food systems as a whole. Our results suggest that farmer-focused initiatives that are food-systems based can sustainably improve dietary diversity and improve micronutrient levels in the diet of poor and vulnerable populations resulting improved nutrition.