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Agriculture plays an important role in providing nutritious foods

WAYS TO IMPROVE and sustainable livelihoods. SPRING’s work has revealed several

NUTRITION THROUGH opportunities for agriculture to contribute to improved nutrition,

especially for those most at risk. By addressing these opportunities in
AGRICULTURE current and new agricultural activities, USAID and its implementing
partners can more effectively contribute to better nutrition.

Here are five things we can do now.

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Increase Availability of Encourage Income Use Recognize the Central Establish Policies and
Generate Demand for
and Access to Diverse, for Better Diets, Health, Role of Women in Programs to Support a
Diverse, Nutritious Foods
Nutritious Foods and Hygiene Agriculture and Nutrition Broad View of Nutrition

• Invest in nutritious • Improve • Empower • Increase • Advocate for

food value chains household women and consumers’ explicit nutrition
• Improve the budgeting promote knowledge of goals within
availability skills to gender nutrition national policies
of nutri- afford the equity and and development
cost of an equitable • Make activities
tious foods nutritious
year-round through nutritious diets division of
labor foods convenient
storage • Stress the and appealing
• Make nutritious importance • Introduce
foods safe and of investing time and labor- • Overcome
affordable in diverse saving farming cultural barriers to
foods, technologies consume nutritious • Establish and
• Promote good foods
agricultural proper strengthen
infant • Support time for multi-sectoral
practices that self- and child-
protect the and child partnerships
feeding, caregiving, care, especially
environment for pregnant and • Collaborate and
and health
lactating mothers share knowledge
and resources

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This graphic is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United
States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s
global hunger and food security initiative, under the terms of the Cooperative Agreement AID-
OAA-A-11-00031 (SPRING), managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. (JSI) with partners
Helen Keller International, the Manoff Group, Save the Children, and the International Food Policy
Research Institute. The contents are the responsibility of JSI, and do not necessarily reflect the views
of USAID or the United States Government.
USAID’s multi-sectoral nutrition project