Focus On Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture

April 2022

Message from the President

We are pleased to launch this e-newsletter through which we will share our experiences in the pursuit of agricultural transformation in Africa, which has been our key mission for the past 35 years. This inaugural issue of the newsletter focuses on nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA), one of the three core pillars of our new strategy (2021-2025)
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ONGOING NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE PROGRAMMES

Nutrition awareness programme in Nigeria improves families’ diets
From September- October 2021, SAA trained 125 frontline extension agents in the Nasarawa, Jigawa, Gombe and Kano states including eight community health extension workers on the usage of nutrient-dense crops in creating balanced diets and improving food diversity options…

ONGOING NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE PROGRAMMES

Malian farmers learn benefits of hermetic storage technologies to preserve grain quality and reduce costs
SAA conducted a demonstration in Mali to illustrate to farmers the effectiveness of hermetic storage. We established demonstrations in farmers’ homes within the village of Doumbadjila, where, for nine months, starting March 5, 2021 to December 8, 2021, equal quantities of maize and sorghum were stored in different containers…

NUTRITION SENSITIVE AGRICULTURE BY THE NUMBERS

EVENTS

SAA joins JICA to promote Provitamin A Maize in Nigeria
Annual stakeholder meeting to align on new strategy
SAA signs MoU with IFPRI to strengthen agriculture and nutrition security in Africa
SAA partners official unveiling of Sustainable and Regenerative Agriculture Coalition in Ethiopia