GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

Institution: USAID and Save the Children

Type of Material: Training Manual/Guide

Year of Publication: 2012

Focal Area: Other

Description:

This manual on nutrition-sensitive agriculture training is a tool for trainers to help  agriculture development agents to:

• Understand the importance of nutrition in decreasing morbidity and mortality, improving productivity and educational performance and national economies;
• Explain the relationship between agriculture and nutrition;
• Describe nutrition priority groups and the undernutrition cycle;
• Explain the concept of dietary diversity and what it means in practice;
• Conduct food demonstrations;
• Explain how to keep food safe by practicing safe handling, preparation and storage techniques (from farm to fork);
• Describe the type of interventions that promote nutrition-sensitive agriculture and how to integrate them into their daily activities; and 
• Use the tools to counsel farmers on nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions.

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