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SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Integrated community-based approaches to food securityACFID Universities Conference | November 2013
JOEL NEGIN SENIOR LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH
Interconnectedness of Development
We need to do more to understand and act on the synergies between action in various sectors
health
infrastructure
agricultural productivity
watereducation
gender equality
environmental management
Negin et al. Food Security 2009.
Agriculturalists focus on this Nutritionists
Health workersWho focuses on this?
Higher Crop Yield
School Lunch
Program
Better School
Results, More
Focused Students
Receive Seeds
and Fertilizer
Development Synergies Across Sectors
Agricultural Intervention Education Intervention Health Intervention
Health Education;
De-worming
Crops Inside Millennium Village5.0 tons/ha
Crops Outside Millennium Village 1.9 tons/ha
Increase in Food Production
Source: Millennium Villages Project, Sauri, Kenya
Grain Yields in Millennium Village Sites
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Kenya Ethiopia Rwanda Malawi Uganda Nigeria 1 Nigeria 2
Pre Project
First Growing Season
Grain Yields tons / hectare
Country
Increases in Grain Yields Pre-Project and After First Growing Season in Selected Millennium Village Sites
Source: Millennium Villages Project
Proportion of Households Who Report Not Having Enough Food to Eat During At least One Month in the Past 12 Months
MDG 1: Prevalence of Stunting (Chronic malnutrition) – Under-2’s
Gross Attendance Ratio in Primary Education
Contraceptive Prevalence Rate – Modern Methods
Diversification
Diversification in practice
Food Aid Delivered
Local Purchase
Fertilizer, Hybrid Seed
$670/ton $240/ton $77 to producean extra ton of food
How to Bring this to Scale?
› This proverb has been overused, under-implemented and misunderstood
› In the poorest countries in the world, this needs to be revised:
Give a man a fish, feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime
Give a woman a fish, feed her for a day, teach a woman to fish, and support her with the low levels
of financing needed to buy a fishing rod, some worms, and an ice box, feed her household for a
lifetime.
Question for discussion
What cross-sectoral synergies are you missing in your work that could improve well-being and development?
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