- TypeTraining or Development Class
- Location Nairobi, kenya,Nairobi,Kenya
- Date 21-11-2022 - 25-11-2022
Education/Teaching/Training/Development
Research/Science
Business Development
Social Sciences
Course title: Training on Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture for food and nutrition security
Training venue: Nairobi Kenya
Course dates:
21/11/2022 - 25/11/2022: https://bit.ly/3RACRmC
Contact us through: Email: [email protected]; Tel: +254732776700 / +254759285295
Introduction
One of the major causes of malnutrition in Africa is the lack of basic knowledge on nutrition and lack of food security to provide the nutrients. Nutrition sensitive agriculture (NSA) is the integration of nutrition and agriculture to achieve food and nutrition security. These knowledge impacted on households and communities through training on nutrition sensitive agriculture will assist to reduce and prevent the effects of poverty which lead to hunger, disease and death. It has become clear that there is no nutrition-education without agriculture and no agricultural-education without nutrition as they both complement each other in addressing food and nutrition insecurity. Training communities on NSA will impact knowledge and skills on the rural communities to strengthen their livelihoods through adoption of sustainable agricultural practices that maximize on resources.
In order to improve the nutritional statures in the community there is need for sustainable food production at the household level with the optimal use of resources such as space, water and other inputs while considering the environment in the areas of waste management. These therefore calls for trainings in the areas of food production, food storage, nutritional requirements, food preparation, food preservation, and food safety. These will ensure food diversity, food availability and food accessibility in order to achieve food and nutrition security.
Duration
5 Days
Training objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
Who should attend?
· Ministry and lower level government officials engaged in agriculture, nutrition, or multi-sectoral work in their countries
· Agriculture workers,
· Health workers
· Community leaders,
Course outline
Module 1: Importance of Nutrition to the Communities
Module 2: Food production
Module 3: Food safety Meal planning and Management
Module 4: Nutrition in the life cycle
Module 5: Value addition
· Understanding Nutritive- Sensitive Value Chain approaches (e.g biofortification, nutrient-preserving storage and transport, and nutrition signalling and labelling).
· Case study on a real-life example of a nutrition-sensitive agriculture program