Increase the production and yield of nutritious crops in targeted smallholder farmers through training extention agents and smallholder farmers on sustainable production, processing, consumption of nutritious crops (biofortified crops, legumes, vegetables, etc.) and quality control of stored agricultural products
Description
Extension agents and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda will receive technical trainings on increased productivity, post-harvest handling, processing and consumption of nutritious crops such as vegetables, legumes and biofortified crops (e.g. pro-vitamin A maize, iron-rich beans and orange-fleshed sweet potatoes). SAA will provide the seeds of nutritious crops and the minimum required fertilizers with smallholder farmers as a starter kit and conduct a series of technical trainings on production with ToT-educated extension agents using the demonstration plots (SAA style cascade extension model). SAA will also train some farmer's groups on seed multiplication so that they are able to increase revenue for sale of the seeds and others in the same community have an affordable access to the seeds necessary for sustainable production of nutritious crops. The training on quality control of stored agricultural products (e.g. inhibition of aflatoxin by hermetic storage facilities such as PICS bags, metal/plastic silos) will be also conducted.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Agriculture-based nutrition improvement
Description
Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) surely commits to improve nutritional status of 22,000 smallholder farmers in total in Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria and Uganda through a holistic approach combining Nutrition-sensitive Agriculture (NSA) with Regenerative Agriculture (RA) and Market-oriented Agriculture (MOA) in a complementary manner (See the attached concept note for details).
SAA sets three measurable goals with the budget of $4,800,000 for five years (2021-2025);
1) Extension agents and smallholder farmers are properly trained on sustainable production, processing and consumption of nutritious crops (biofortified crops, legumes, vegetables, etc.) and quality control of stored agricultural products,
2) Extension agents and smallholder farmers are properly trained on market-oriented farming and/or agribusiness so that the farmers' purchasing powers of nutritious foods are enhanced by increased incomes, and
3) Extension agents and smallholder farmers are properly trained on food diversification with gender-sensitive awareness-raising of nutrition.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Childhood stunting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Food supply chain
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent increase in production and yield of nutritious crops among targeted smallholder farmers |
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| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 0% | 2021 |
| Target | 50% |
