Nutrition and GDP
     Nutrition and food consumption issues are critical to sustainably 
     reduce poverty and decrease maternal and child mortality.
       Up to 3% GDP LOSSES due to 
               undernutrition
      World Bank 2006
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                   What Supports Child Nutrition? 
                                                 Access to 
                                   Improved       water/
                       Access      maternal      sanitation
                      to food      and child-    /hygiene 
                                     care        and basic 
                                   practices      health 
                                                  services
                                                             Agriculture and 
                                                       Nutrition Pathways
                                      Sold at                                                 Health
                                                                                                                                        
                                      market                                                             
                            
                                                                                                Care
                 Non-food                                                                             
                 cash crops                         Income 
                Livestock,                Agricultural                                                                 Nutritional 
                                                                                     
                fish, non-                processing                          Food                                       status  
               timber forest
                           
                 products
                                                                                           Meal 
                                                                                                              Dietary 
                   Food                                                                preparation                                           Human
                   crops                                                                                      Intake                                  
                                                    Kept for                                                                                 Capital
                                                              
                                                   household
                                                      Assets & Resources
           International Center for Research on Women
                           
                    NUTRITION-SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE
                                       REACH, Sierra Leone
                                             PRINCIPLES
        •  Agriculture affects nutrition outcomes indirectly  
           It works through effects on the underlying causes of 
           undernutrition: access to food and food production, 
           health and care, and most directly through the effects 
           of income and prices on household food security  
        •  Nutrition is both an input for and an outcome of 
           agricultural productivity
        •  The appropriate actions will be identified through an 
           analysis of determinants of food insecurity/ 
           undernutrition
        •  Plan multisectorally and implement sectorally