Leveraging Agriculture for Nutritional Impact through the Feed the Future Initiative: A Landscape Analysis of Activities Across 19 Focus Countries, 2014.
SPRING Project.
This report offers an in-depth analysis of the Feed the Future activities based on the country profiles, studies of promising practices, and workshop discussions. Beginning by defining the scope and methodology of the landscape analysis and introducing the two frameworks used for that analysis, the report describes cross-country findings on implementation approaches, selection of value chains, integration of direct nutrition interventions, and the agriculture–nutrition pathways active in current Feed the Future activities. Next, the report presents a number of critical issues and challenges observed in Feed the Future activities: the need for indicators of intermediate steps along the pathways; consideration of gender and social norms; targeting of both geographic regions and beneficiary groups; multisectoral coordination; and the importance of value chain selection, market access, and social and behavior change (SBC) along the value chains and pathways. Finally, the report proposes the following strategic changes to strengthen linkages between agriculture and nutrition in Feed the Future activities:
- Design and modify activity indicators and activities based on context assessments.
- Target SBC activities along all agriculture–nutrition pathways.
- Empower women by helping to build a supportive family and social environment.
- Focus on opportunities for nutrition throughout the value chains.
- Document incremental results to build the evidence base.
- Strengthen coordination and collaboration from within the Missions.
- Invest strategically in partnerships and capacity building to ensure sustainability.
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