STOCK TAKING OF ACTIONS AND INITIATIVES FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Please fill one form for each initiative reported
Name of the Initiative: Nutrition in Mountain Agro-Ecosystems
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Individual
Collective
Respondent
Name: Gábor
Surname: Figeczky
Email: g.figeczky@ifoam.bio
Organization: IFOAM – Organics International
Position: advocacy manager
Are you responding?
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On behalf on the organization conducting the action/initiative
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As a member of it
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Because you know its existence
Name of the leading organization: IFOAM – Organics International
Type of organization:
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National Authority (e.g. Government),
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Local Authorities
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Intergovernmental Organization
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Civil Society
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Non-governmental organizations
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Primary food producers (e.g. farmers, smallholder farmers, pastoralists, fisherfolk)
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Private Sector (e.g. manufacturer, retailers, industry association, private research, etc)
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Research
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Multistakeholder
o Other:
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Partners (the case being):
Helvetas Intercooperation
FiBL
Year of the beginning of the action/ initiative:
2015
The case being, year of end: 2018
Geographical
scope of the
Initiative
Indicate precisely
Main
Targeted
Stage of
Food
Systems
If
appropriate,
indicate
precisely
Local
National
Implementation of
nutrition sensitive
agriculture at the
local level so that
farmers - by
applying agroecological
practices processors and
traders diversify
and intensify
production,
improve postharvest
management and
promote a
nutritious product
range including for
self-subsistence
and for absorbing
the diversified
surplus production
to respond to
demand of
sensitized
consumers.
Development of an
environment
conducive to nutrition
sensitive agriculture
at national level so
that national policies
and action plans
support and stimulate
diversified production
and consumption.
Regional
Global
Advocacy for
nutrition sensitive
agriculture at the
global level so
that the global
nutrition
discourse adopts
agricultural
diversification
and innovation
based on the
agro-ecological
approaches.
Input or
service
provision
Primary
Production
Processing
Distribution
Consumption
Rural service
providers that
are involved in
an action
network
stimulate
Good agroecological
practices – e.g.
mixed
cropping, Nfixing plants,
Processing and
post-harvest
loss
minimization –
e.g. storage
and home
Improved
access to
markets – e.g.
linkages with
processing
industries,
Promotion of
dietary diversity –
e.g. food
festivals,
information
campaigns on
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awareness,
diversification
and market
linkages
through
implementing
local
development
plans (“microinterventions”).
kitchen
gardening, crop
rotations, water
saving and soil
building
techniques,
nutrient flow
improvements
(e.g. P);
processing
methodology,
food
conservation;
participatory
guarantee
systems,
outlets;
health benefits,
curriculum
related to school
gardens.
Main dimension(s) addressed (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
o Environment
o Economic
o Social
o Governance
Main issue(s) addressed (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
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Water
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Soil
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Land
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Air
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Climate change
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Biodiversity (including genetic resources)
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Specific ecosystems, if yes, please precise:
Mountain agro-ecosystems
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Food losses and waste
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Energy
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Pollution
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Food consumption
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Consumer behavior
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Nutrition
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Animal welfare
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Fair Trade
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Rural development
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Land use rights
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Gender issues
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Youth issues
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Employment
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Workers rights and safety
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Vulnerable groups
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Poverty alleviation
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Other, please specify...
Main instruments used (if several of them, please indicate order of priority)
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Projects
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Regulations
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Policy dialogue
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Capacity development
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Research
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Knowledge dissemination
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Advocacy and awareness raising
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Data collection and sharing
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Training, extension
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Consumer information
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Voluntary standards, labels
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Payment for environmental services
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Other? If so, please specify:
Description of the Initiative (in less than 10 lines), including, as appropriate elements on size and
scale of the initiative:
The NMA project is
 addressing poverty and malnutrition in Mountain Agro-ecosystems around the globe;
 promoting Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture for diversification of diets to combat stunting of children and
malnutrition of adults, particularly of women; and
 facilitating the Replication and Scaling Up of well tested agro-ecological methods in regard to
agricultural and marketing practices.
Its activities are the following:
 Developing a platform for rural service providers` knowledge, tools, successful cases and social
capital.
 Online/face to face facilitating, training, motivating, inspiring and coaching of rural service providers.
 National knowledge sharing to sensitize decision makers
 Global advocacy and knowledge sharing.
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At the local level there are 4 types of micro-interventions:
 Good agro-ecological practices – e.g. mixed cropping, N-fixing plants, kitchen gardening, crop
rotations, water saving and soil building techniques, nutrient flow improvements (e.g. P);
 Processing and post-harvest loss minimization – e.g. storage and home processing methodology, food
conservation;
 Improved access to markets – e.g. linkages with processing industries, participatory guarantee
systems, outlets;
 Promotion of dietary diversity – e.g. food festivals, information campaigns on health benefits,
curriculum related to school gardens.
At the national level the National Nutrition Knowledge Sharing campaigns – In order to promote most relevant
NSI and innovations, NMA will develop with project partners dialogues and events at the national level. In this
regard, the national intervention aim to influence both policy making and consumers’ perception about certain
food/crops and practices, raising awareness for nutrient sensitive agricultural production practices and nutritionimproving consumption habits.
Our main advocacy messages at the global level will be the following:
• Evidence is available from successful projects based on the NMA approach for global organizations to put
agro-ecology and smallholders higher on the nutrition agenda,
• Initiatives as well as their enabling legal and policy environment need to take a cross-sectorial approach
not only at the national, but at the global level, too, in order to speak with ‘one voice’ on nutrition,
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Diversified and ecological mountain agriculture and consumption as promoted under NMA contributes to
multiply donor investment related to nutrition and health, rural development (income, jobs) and
environment.
Results:
Expected outcomes:
• Implementation of nutrition sensitive agriculture at the local level: Farmers - by applying agro-ecological
practices - processors and traders diversify and intensify production, improve post-harvest management
and promote a nutritious product range including for self-subsistence and for absorbing the diversified
surplus production to respond to demand of sensitized consumers.
• Development of an environment conducive to nutrition sensitive agriculture at national level: National
policies and action plans support and stimulate diversified production and consumption.
• Advocacy for nutrition sensitive agriculture at the global level: The global nutrition discourse adopts
agricultural diversification and innovation based on the NMA approach.
References ( Literature, web site, reports, etc):
To be developed.
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