Meeting of the Minds on Nutrition Impact of Food Systems

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1 Mozambique ZAMBIA TANZANIA MALAWI Niassa Cabo Delgado Tete Nampula Zambezia ZIMBABWE Sofala Meeting of the Minds on Nutrition Impact of Food Systems Geneva, March 2013 SOUTH AFRICA SWAZILAND Gaza Maputo Almeida Tembe

2 Undernutrition in Mozambique Food and Nutrition Security Strategy (ESAN II -2008/15) 35% chronic food Insecurity 44% chronic under nutrition in children under 5 years

3 Food environment Diet is basically maize, cassava, beans, some vegetables (green leaves) There are numerous cultural taboos (food taboos) Often people sell what they produce, rather than consume Need to strengthen efforts to ensure that production is nutrition sensitive with a focus on diversifying crops challenges remain with regards to farmer access to inputs, to markets, market/price information, the agricultural extension system (too few extensionists), participation of small stakeholders etc. and there is a recognition that these need to be looked at with a "nutrition" lens.

4 Nutrition sensitive policies, strategies, plans National Basic Social Protection Strategy in Mozambique ( ) Early Childhood Development Strategy (2011) Family Planning Strategy (2011) National Community Involvement Strategy (2010) Five year Government Plan (PQG ) Poverty Reduction Action Plan (PARP ) Strategic Program for Urban Poverty Reduction ( ) Education Strategic Plan ( ) Integrated National Plan for the Achievement of MDGs 4&5 ( /15) Strategic Plan for the Development of the Agriculture Sector (PEDSA ) Agriculture Investment Plan (PNISA)

5 Agriculture Policy and FSN Agriculture is a key priority for the Mozambican government for poverty reduction and attaining food security, as is detailed in the country s ten-year strategy plan Summary of the Strategic Plan for Agricultural Development (PEDSA), 2011 to 2020 Vision: An integrated, prosperous, competitive and sustainable agriculture sector 6 corridors targeted to align efforts across public, private, and development sectors through: Agricultural potential Support services (research centers, educational institutions) Connection to market (infrastructure) 1 Agricultural production and productivity to increase ability to compete 2 Infrastructure and services for markets and improved marketing 3 Land, water, forest, and wildlife resources used sustainably 4 Agricultural institutions strengthened Source: Ministry of Agriculture Four Discrete Pillars in Progress to Achieve Agricultural Vision Mozambique plans to allocate 10 percent of its budget to agriculture by 2015, as resolved in the Maputo Declaration of 2003 by the African Union

6 PNISA /FSN ( ) Promote, sensitize and influence for access and use of healthy and adequate food PROGRAM OBJECTIVE Support Nutritional Education Promote the consumption of healthy and adequate food, personal hygiene end environment sanitation Straighten capacity to implement FSN actions Advocate and influence for EFECTIVA implementation of programs of FSN at all levels in right to food perspective Promotion and production of diversified crops with high nutritious value Promote and production of diversified crops with high nutritious value

7 Availability: PNISA /FSN ( ) Assets (Disponibilizar insumos de produção) (seeds (sementes melhoradas), fertilizes, fish nets, alevinos, etc.) to the smallholders and fish mans with law income; Promote and production and consumption of reach food of micronutrients (orange flash suit potatoes, amaranthus, moringa, cashew nut) e protein (beans, poultry, goat, milk); Produce feasible information on time about crop production and livestock; Availability of medicines on time for domestic animals vaccination.

8 more nutrition-sensitive through integration of nutrition in sectors plans National school feeding program -MINED Early childhood strategy-mined Program of fortification of foods-mic Program Cozinha Moçambique MIC Food basket and actions in social protection focused on vulnerable groups MMAS Alignment of the water and sanitation interventions with interventions in nutrition-moph Social and Economic Plan (PES) - 5 Government sectors in 2014)

9 Multissectoral coordination MISAU MINED MINAG MIC MIMAS MJD MOPH Family Planning. Anemia Control adequate infant feeding. Food and nutrition Supplementa tion Nutritiona l Education in curricula School gardens Nutritious food production Improve technologies for process and storage of food Iodization of Salt Food Fortificatio n Code of the Marketing of Breast milk Substitutes Food subside Program Income transferen ce program Reduction of early pregnancy Reduction of early wedding Access of water and basic Sanitation Food security and nutrition surveillance SETSAN Intersectoral coordination

10 Planning and financing Sector Sector Elaboration of Annual plan of PAMRDC ( SETSAN) Plan Government Central, Provincial and distrital (Aprove and include in PES-2014) Sector Financing trough e-sistafe Sector 10

11 Obrigado!