CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH): 2014 Annual performance monitoring report

Improving nutrition and health is at the center of the CGIAR Strategic Results Framework (SRF). The A4NH results framework contributes to intermediate development outcomes (IDOs) at scale for improving diet quality and reducing exposure to agriculture-associated disease, including food safety risks. Achieving these two nutrition and health IDOs relies on two other IDOs – empowering women and poor communities to make decisions related to agriculture, food, care, and health and enabling nutrition and health through better cross-sectoral policies, programs and investments.

At the June 2013 Nutrition for Growth Summit, the CGIAR and national governments, donors, and private sector partners made a number of commitments. In 2014, contributions from A4NH and our partners were central to CGIAR progress towards fulfilling those commitments – in adoption of biofortified crops, in providing evidence on the impacts of integrated agriculture-nutrition programs, and on understanding and evaluating progress of national and sub-national efforts to achieve nutrition and health outcomes from agriculture and other sectors.

Partners are critical for A4NH research to contribute to development outcomes. Public and private value chain actors, development program implementers, and policy and investment enablers play critical roles in our impact pathways. Given our focus on nutrition and health outcomes, we have built partnerships that span the agriculture, nutrition, and health communities.

The research portfolio remains organized into four research flagships:

• Value Chains for Enhanced Nutrition,
• Biofortification,
• Agriculture-Associated Diseases, and
• Integrated Programs and Policies

Three clusters of activities under each flagship are described in our approved Extension Proposal.