 Welcome, welcome everyone to the international technical webinar on sustainable food value chains for nutrition. This is one of the series of webinars that the FL e-learning academy organizes together with Adrienia and the United Nations Economic and Social Committee for the Pacific. With these technical webinars, what we are trying to do is to cover the main priority technical areas to allow us to better face the challenges humanity is faced with. So the various thematic areas are climate change, crop production, water management, but of course also sustainability, nutrition, trade. So we are trying to cover these various thematic areas. There is one common thread, however, through all the webinars, which is sustainability. Of course, everything we do is aligned with the SDG Agenda 2030 and we try to gather experts throughout the world that can share with us their knowledge. The other point I wanted to mention is that all these webinars cover thematic areas that are covered in the FL e-learning courses that are offered free of charge through the FL e-learning academy and everything is offered as a global public good. So you will be able to find the courses but also all the webinars on elearning.phile.org. It's very simple and there you can access all the recordings of the previous webinars as well as access to free access to the multilingual e-learning courses. So today we have a very special program for you. We are extremely pleased to have with us Mrs. Florence Tortanac, which is one of my colleagues from FL. We also have with us James Garrett from the Alliance of Biodiversity in Sia. We will also be hearing about a country case study from Mozambique with Custodio Mukavele from IFAD and Carla Homoana from Cromer. So the program is extremely rich and I would like to start by giving the floor to Florence. Florence, the floor is yours. You have 10 minutes. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much Christina for this introduction. So I will start by sharing my screen. So give me one minute. Okay, here it is. Yes, thank you very much Christina for this introduction and for organizing this webinar for the launching of this elearning course on sustainable food value chains for nutrition. So first I will give a little background of this course. So for us, as you know in FAO, nutrition is at the heart of the agenda of 2030 for sustainable development not only in terms of the EDG targets, but also in terms of the importance of good nutrition as a key input to achieve each and every SDG. And with the proclamation of the UN decade of action on nutrition by the UN General Assembly in 2016, there is a unique opportunity to governments and development community to work together on nutrition. Also next year the UN will convene as a food system summit that will awake the work to the fact that we almost work together to transform the way the food is, the world produce, consume and think about food. And we have to be on track with the EDG and we really need to transform the food systems and to do it we need to work all together. So this is what our vision, sorry this slide is a little cloudy but you may know it already. The framework is a framework of the food system from the HLP, the high-level panel of experts of the CFS, the World Committee of Food Security. And where we see our entry point it's really on the left side of the food supply chain and we really need to take into consideration not only the food produced but also how it is processed, distributed, marketed and consumed. And it's also necessary to impact the complexity of the food system and to identify entry points for policy, investment and capacity development. So even if value chain intervention have historically focused on increasing economic returns they also play an important role in shaping food systems as they influence both the food supply but also the demand. And we also are taking care of the food environment and the consumer behavior which has a free topic that we are highlighting here. So by promoting nutrition-sensitive value chain is one way of maximizing the contribution of sustainable agriculture to improve nutrition. So this is the basis for us. So against this background we realized that the collaboration between UN agencies both at global and also at country level is really crucial to achieving food system which delivers diverse and nutritious food. And having identified the sustainable food value chain for nutrition as a key area of collaboration, forming a working group on the topic for nutrition bringing together FAO, EFAD, WFP but also the University International now called the Alliance of the University International in Seattle and also EFPRI. And the group was created to undertake joint action in the area of sustainable food value chain for nutrition including support to investment and policy processes, capacity development, generation of knowledge products, harmonized tools and guidance and joint advocacy. All in the context of country-led processes and international policy fora. So the key activities of this working group which started in 2015 was really to first agree on a framework, on the common framework for sustainable food value chain for nutrition and then to diffuse it and to use it in different fora. So we organized a special event during the Committee of World Food Security CFS in a plenary meeting held in Rome in 2016. And we presented the framework with particular attention to sustainability and inclusivity. And also a summary paper document was published by CFS. And the framework was also presented in several events like an event organized by the UN expert group meeting on sustainable food value chain development also held in Rome in 2016. And the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition organized an event on trade and nutrition. We also organized online consultation through the Food Security and Nutrition Forum for disseminating and validating the framework that we put together. And to discuss it with development practitioners and researchers and get their feedback about the relevance of the framework. And drawing on the existing value chain approaches we adapted a common approach to guide efforts of different agencies to mainstream nutrition into value chain projects. So the framework represents a shift from the traditional value chain approach which focus on supply opportunities and market demands to one that starts with understanding the nutrition needs of consumers. We will have more detail later with the presentation on James about this. We also continue the activities that the group has done. So in 2018, the EFAT published a big publication about the topic on nutrition and value chain guide for project design. And the same year also under WFP leadership there was a publication of what we call homegrown school feeding resource framework which is also applying a nutrition and value chain approach. In 2019 we started to implement several activities and projects with government at country level. And now so we are launching this e-learning course that was done jointly with also partners, also free ADAs plus the University International in Seattle and IFPRI for all the participants and everybody interested in the topic. So the course is primarily targets development practitioners and policymakers who are working on the development of sustainable food system. The course also benefits both interested in learning more about sustainable food system and food system thinking, including extension agent researchers and the private sector. So for us the course is both for a nutritionist who would like to know how to approach nutrition with a value chain approach. So people who know about nutrition but do not know about value chain but also on the other way around. People that are experts in value chain are to introduce nutrition in the work we are doing on value chain. So it's very important to have these two ways of looking at value chain with this course. So the main topics of the course are first the key concept of the topic of sustainable food value chain for nutrition including diet and nutrition and also some definitions about value chain and versus sustainability. Then we are moving to the elements of the analytical framework including potential strategies and entry points for interventions. Then we are going to the free impact pathway that which sustainable food value chain can improve nutrition and then the process of developing this kind of project including analysis and identification of commodities and interventions. Also just to mention at the end of this course for people who are taking it there is a possibility to obtain a digital batch certification offered by the FAO Learning Academy by passing the final performance evaluation. So you will get now more details about the course itself. I am including also in the presentation a small list of resources, key resources that could be useful to go further in the topic and so I will leave it here and we'll let James to develop and explain more in detail the approach and the content of the course. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you very much. I just wanted to add just a few details about the certification. So the FAO Learning Academy is now also the legal certifying body so we are able to certify the acquisition of competencies acquired through the courses and as Florence was mentioning there is a final test that is associated with the course. So if you pass this scenario-based test you have access to the digital badge that certifies your competencies. So now I would like to give the floor to James Garrett. James the floor is yours. You have 20 minutes. Thank you. Great thank you Christina and thank you very much Florence also for the introduction. I want to say first welcome to everyone and thank you for really coming from all over the world to join us today and it's really nice to see friends and colleagues also online. So what I want to do now is to present an overview of the course not specifically about all the content but what you'll find when you open up the course and what you'll find inside. So as Florence suggested who should actually take this course first the course aims as Florence said to provide project designers and managers with the concepts principles and tools they need to leverage value chain approaches through agriculture and importantly food systems and to design sustainable food value chains for nutrition or sometimes what I'll refer to as SFVCN projects. The course itself has four lessons the first lesson introduces the key concepts related to food systems and value chains nutrition and sustainability and the relationships between them. It also emphasizes the importance of a multi-sectoral approach to nutrition and the components of a healthy diet. The second lesson introduces the concepts and framework for sustainable food value chains for nutrition and it explores how to apply the lenses of nutrition and sustainability when thinking about value chains and value chain projects. It notes that the starting point is to understand the nutrition problem of the target population and to consider then how to address that problem. The three main strategies of how to do this include how to increase supply or how to increase demand for nutritious foods or how to improve the nutrition value of the foods themselves including attention to food loss and waste. These are the very there are various entry points and actions on how to do this that we show in the slide on the right which is the framework itself strategies and entry points and it also distinguishes between for example typical value chain entry points which are in green and the nutrition sensitive or the sustainable food value for nutrition sensitive entry points which add the nutrition lens for a typical value chain of nutritious foods in the market and for the producers of those foods consumption out of own production. This lesson also notes key mediating factors that affect impact such as women's empowerment and nutrition awareness. It also highlights the importance of a multi-chain approach since we know that one food can't solve all the nutrition problems but thinking about how to improve the diet as a whole could make a difference. Finally the lesson examines some of the strengths challenges and tension among actions in an SNSFV in approach. Focusing on increasing economic value for producers traders and other value chain actors may create then a challenge of ensuring that these nutritious foods remain affordable for the poorest who are likely the ones who need such foods most. The last lesson goes through the steps and the studies and analyses that are needed to design an SFVC and project. Steps one through four are the diagnostic steps which through data collection and analyses provide the information needed to put a project together. Step one undertakes a nutrition situation analysis that identifies the nutrition problems faced by the target population. Step two identifies the commodities that have potential to address the nutrition problem while also making business sense. Step three undertakes value chain analyses of those prioritized commodities using a nutrition lens then identifying constraints and opportunities in supply demand and nutrition value. Step four identifies the intervention options that will address these issues and the SFVC and project can invest in. Step five then takes all these results into account and puts the elements of the project together. This process helps to unpack the complexity of food systems of value chains and nutrition to systematically identify which commodities and interventions hold the greatest potential to meet concerns about nutrition as well as concerns about business profitability and improvements in livelihoods and so help you to determine which projects to invest in when developing a value chain project that also aims to improve nutrition. As we started from the as we stated from the outset value chain development projects are themselves an important approach to development. They help to focus attention and investment on particularly vulnerable populations such as small holders and can empower them make production and the overall value chain and food system more efficient and improve their incomes and livelihoods. Most value chain projects however focus on raising incomes and respond to without necessarily trying to change market demand. In this approach we are adding as shown in these diagrams about step one to four on the diagnostics and step five about how to put the project together adding concerns about nutrition to a typical value chain approach at each step. We start with consumer concerns in terms of a healthy diet rather than focusing solely on the producer or market analysis but we also recognize that a viable project must still appeal to producers traders and other value chain actors and provide them attractive options that will increase their incomes and improve their livelihoods and so while we look at commodity selection through nutrition lens we also have added the requirement that actions should do no harm to the environment or to women's status and empowerment. The course and the guides explain how to go through this process the specific analyses and a scoring process to find those commodities that hold the greatest potential for value chain development on all three counts income market demand and nutrition. The course provides a clear overview of these steps but they are described in detail in these two publications available from EFAD and A4NH on how to design nutrition sensitive value chain projects. These should be complemented with especially information from the course and FAO to further bring in the concepts of sustainability and gender. Now I want to quickly highlight some of the useful and exciting features of this course. For example not only does it outline a process but it gives information on a range of topics. It provides citation of sources and additional references and it's interactive so you you can pursue some of the topics in even more detail. There are also quizzes and as Christine and Florence mentioned there's an opportunity to which can allow you to achieve a certification and this badge can then be shown to be part of your professional qualifications for example on your CV. The course also highlights in addition we have Latisha, Naya and Nassim here to guide you through the course providing additional information along the way and also illustrating each step with the real-world application of the steps using their own country situation. But at the end of the day can you really use what you you learn in this course? It may seem a little bit complex at first but we developed the guides underlying this course through a partnership between EFAD and A4NH and a project funded by the governments of Germany and Canada and practical use by managers and project designers was first in mind. In developing those guides we took an experimental and research-based approach and we had the partner organizations working with us try and test the steps and tools alongside EFAD funded government projects in the field. Food Basket Foundation International and the Netherlands Royal Tropical Institute worked in Nigeria and SVN and SEAT worked in Indonesia with us. The most appropriate methods and tools were then included in the guides. The field experiences showed that even in these situations adequate secondary information was often available and needed primary and the needed primary data could be collected relatively easy. So as I said the aim was to have a rigorous and research-based approach to design however producing reliable valid and replicable results but also that we needed to have tools and methods that were practical and feasible for use in the field and settings where time money and capabilities are often limited. But remember for these kinds of projects you often need project not research level precision so you need to know for example is vitamin A deficiency a problem. You don't need to know whether it's 15 percent or 20 percent in terms of prevalence. We also as I said tested these approaches alongside actual agricultural value chain projects in Indonesia and Nigeria and these approaches and methods and tools ideas were then validated in workshops by national and global experts holding workshops in both Nigeria and in Indonesia and then also a global workshop and I appreciate the fact that some of the people who participated in those workshops are online. We looked at how much total time this kind of an approach may take. We think a reasonable amount that could be shortened for various reasons is probably four to six months which is about in line with the normal project development process but really only step one the nutrition situation analysis is in addition to what most project design for value chain projects do anyway. The rest is just adding a nutrition lens to work that should be done in any case. Notice that most of this also relies on secondary data that is already available complemented by primary data collection with easy tools to fill the gaps. So lastly the resources to help you complement to implement the concepts developed in this course are available. Here are some of the key resources that can be found on the EFAT FAO and A4NH websites. As already mentioned there are two volumes from EFAT A4NH on how to design NSVC projects complemented further here with attention to sustainability and gender using resources from FAO. Other resources including related e-learning courses from FAO Academy are listed in the course as well. As I noted the two volumes on project design specify already what information you will need terms of reference for consultant and staff specific data sources and methods for each step and in volume two actual tools for primary data collection such as key informant interviews, other questionnaires and those volumes are linked at each step. The EFAT A4NH also has a research paper which outlines the review of literature and the framework as well as country finding briefs. In other words those were the country results that are put into an easily this digestible format and shows what you get when you actually use this approach. So you can see that there's a lot of information that we drew on to develop this course and it's all easily accessible. Before ending I want to thank especially Isabel de La Peña of EFAT who worked with me to develop the EFAT guides and other materials mentioned here and who also worked on this course and also David Nevin at FAO for his work on sustainable food value chains and others at FAO for their work on developing the guiding framework for gender sensitive value chains. And I want to thank specifically also the overall project coordinators for the development of this course Florence and Christina and co-lead author Andrea as well as the co-authors Isabel, Bin, Ayursana and Elvira and also Cleona, Peter, LaVinia for their patient support and brilliance and putting together the design, the animation and the arc of course together. Of course many of the others also contributed their insights work and time most especially the members of the RBA working group on sustainable food value chains for nutrition and others coming from FAO, EFAT and WFP and also those who attended the various workshops needed to put together. So you can tell the few faces that you see here don't do justice to all of the other people who really put in their effort to develop this course and we greatly appreciate it. Thanks to everyone and I hope you enjoy the course. Thank you, thank you very much James and I would like now to give the floor to Custodio Mucavele and Carla Honwana for showing us a little bit, giving us a little bit of country case study from Mozambique so we have an idea of how it works directly in countries. The floor is yours, you have 10 minutes. Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you Cristina and thank you to the organizers of this webinar. I want also to thanks to Antonella for inviting us in the field for inviting us in Mozambique a contribution on the mainstreaming nutrition intervention interventions in the portfolio and Mozambique with case studies from our market linkage project Promere. I'm doing this presentation together with Carla Honwana who is the project coordinator for Promere. I will take this first bit quickly with the introduction remarks and Carla will take it over to present concrete cases from the project. Maybe as a starting point I would like to bring your attention to the nutrition situation in Mozambique as indicated in the three maps there and you can see in three three dimensions the chronic malnutrition food security and agriculture productivity. You can see clearly that there is a kind of sorry Custodio to interrupt you. You see that they are more productive and the food security is good in northern province and at the same time they have the highest problems of chronic malnutrition. So that tells us that there is something that needs to be done with this negative correlation if you like between productivity and malnutrition. Next slide. Sorry Custodio, sorry Custodio with what you're saying because we are still on the first screen basically. Yeah you have to go in presentation mode. It's a small icon on the right hand side down on your screen and then maybe synchronize the excellent and then yes. Is that okay now? Thank you. Okay apologies. I was talking on this slide which gives the the the agriculture productivity food security and chronic malnutrition. So you can see that in the north of Mozambique is good agricultural productivity but at the same time is the same province I have malnutrition chronic malnutrition problem. So it tells us there is a lot of work to be done with regards to addressing the malnutrition or chronic malnutrition in those provinces. Now the next slide is it gives you the policy and the strategic approach which is a combination of government interventions through multi-sectoral plan for reduction of malnutrition with the UN agenda for reduction of chronic malnutrition. This is the important combination we believe because this is the combination that shows how important is malnutrition malnutrition and at the same time I bring some core indications on related to malnutrition of the 16 core indications and I try to highlight five on which ifad is actually more active. The next slide shows the basically bring the next slide to show the the path in terms of malnutrition mainstreaming in Mozambique starting from 2012 with Japan which was a small a small grant on on HIV and nutrition to assist people living with the HIV to improve their diets. From that end we started to improve and basically I think the boss was in 2013 with the MDG 1C program which was support from supported by EU funds and the three RBAs organizations were implementers in Mozambique. From that end then we basically we looked at we tried to manage malnutrition throughout all the projects in 2015 we did with the extension projects in 2016 we added some more resource to Propezka and Promere and then 2018 we did on a new project a value chain project also it did some intervention in nutrition 2017 Promere had more funds to go to work on a nutrition and finally in 2018 the design of the new projects that are now coming to start we have the mainstreaming of nutrition is basically fully fully done in 2018 so all the projects in Mozambique now are fully mainstreamed in terms of malnutrition. The last slide basically shows the scaling up of malnutrition from 2012 to 2019 and it shows basically once again what I indicated before in 2013 with funds from EU is when basically we start to scale up throughout the country. Thank you and I'll hand it over to Carla to know the second bit of presentation. Thank you Cristadio before we go to Carla can I please ask you again to go on presentation because you are showing a slideshow so I see that some people are asking us to make sure that the presentation is shown. Yes we can hear you I was just asking if you could make sure that the presentation is on full screen because I see some comments asking for that just close this slideshow and then click again on the full screen presentation modality. Is it now okay? No now this is this is the normal PowerPoint file you can click on the last icon before the minus symbol on the bottom right but otherwise it's also on the on the up side to the left. Yes now it's okay thank you Carla. Hello thank you can you hear me? Yes okay so thank you Cristadio and also thank you organizers for giving us the opportunity of presenting our experience of sharing our experience in how to mainstream nutrition in a market linkage problem. I would like to start by giving a short background information about the program. So it's a market linkage program sorry we are having some technical problems. Okay so it's a market linkage program and the goal is to improve the livelihoods of the poor rural households by enabling small-scale farmers to increase their income from agricultural activities. The target group are small-scale farmers and rural traders and the program is being implemented in 15 districts of four provinces of Mozambique and these four provinces are the ones that Cristadio referred that the ones that have higher problems of chronic malnutrition. It is a 12-year duration program which will close in 2021. Promere was originally a seven-year project and it was designed to address the main problems in different valley chain segments but when it was designed there was no specific nutrition focus so the project interventions from 2009 to 2013 were basically focused on input supply production processing and marketing. So the activities included facilitating linkages between rural traders and input supplies, capacity building of farmers organization, demonstration fields for improved technology, promotion of small-scale value addition, support the development of agribusiness processing capacities and also some interventions in improvements of the environment so rehabilitation of access roads, facilitating access to finance etc. In terms of implementing nutrition activities we can say that Promere had two phases. So the first phase was from 2014 to 2018 when nutrition education component was integrated in the program as part of the MDG1 program funded by the European Union. During this phase nutrition was implemented as a standalone component. It was implemented in only one of the four provinces that were covered by the project. It targeted 3,000 women at reproductive age and children under two years and adolescence. The entry points were the farmers organizations and secondary schools and the main activities included nutrition awareness, cooking demonstration, establishment of community and school gardens and nutrition messages being broadcasted through community radius. So the focus in this first phase was in the demand side, the consumption. So the project was actually focusing its activities in the last segment of the value check. Now in 2018 an impact study was done to assess the impacts of the first phase and the results showed that 40 percent of women of reproductive age, 68 percent of adolescents and 45 percent of children under two years achieved the minimum dietary diversity. From this first phase the main lesson that was learned was that Promere interventions offers a wide range of opportunities for nutrition outcomes. So in that sense nutrition education implemented has a standalone component and focuses in the end of the value chain has limited the results and the impact. In 2018 Promere received additional financing from IFATS and the program was extended until 2021 and so we took this opportunity to scale up nutrition activities to the whole project area. So we went from five districts in one province to 15 districts in four provinces and based in the lessons learned from phase one we changed to a nutrition sensitive value chain approach. So the main issue to be addressed in this second phase was how a market linkage program can deliver positive nutrition outcomes to smallholder families while at the same time aiming for income increase from production. So we basically provided technical and functional skills to project technical staff. We developed support materials and guidance notes to support each component to mainstream nutrition. We carried out the baseline survey to find out the nutrition situation in the program area and based on the results of this baseline we adjust the program activities and indicators to make sure that all program interventions in the different segments of the value chain were nutrition sensitive and focus on further increasing the nutrition food production and utilization of nutrition food within the farmer's organization value checks. So the new approach consisted in identifying and making good use of the opportunities to enhance supply and demand of specific foods as a way to address the nutrition problems of the target population. So with this approach the idea is to mainstream nutrition in both the supply and the demand side of the value chain considering all value chain segments. In terms of activities in this second phase the active primary activities are focused in the supply side we have the promotion of the sale of dark green leafy vegetable seeds and other vegetable seeds rich in vitamin A and zinc including bio fortified orange flash sweet potato. We also promote are promoting the improved varieties early mature and the use of organic fertilizer and pesticides and the food for production we are doing awareness sensitization sessions of selected nutrition nutritious dense commodities at farmers organizations district and provincial meetings, rural traders and animal businesses. We are also promoting nutrition sensitive extensions so we are working with the extension services and promoting nutrition sensitive extension. In terms of storage and processing we are investing in safe storage warehouse and other infrastructure in processing of rural fortification specifically fortified maize flowers and we are also promoting sesame, ground nuts and soya oil processing. In terms of distribution and transports the rehabilitation of more than 700 kilometers of feeder roads with access to key production centers the investments in transport means and the creation of diversified distribution channels make a contribution to nutrition. Trading and marketing we are constructing safe wholesale and retail markets supporting the packaging and labelling of products and ensuring the signature of future contracts between farmers organizations and rural traders. On the demand side so we are promoting nutrition education on food groups diet diversification, SBCC, dissemination of nutrition messages in local radius. We are also investing in cooking demonstration promotion of hygiene practices and promotion of processing and conservation of nutritious foods. So in conclusion we can say that the project went from a market linkers programs without any nutrition focus to a market linkers program with a nutrition component focus on the last segment of the value chain. And finally we are at a stage where we are a nutrition sensitive market linkers program with nutrition sensitive activities in both supply and demand side. Thank you very much for your attention. Thank you. Thank you very much for this case study. Thank you for to both Kavla and Custodio. As you know we are going to move now towards the Q&A session where the questions of our participants will be answered. Some of the questions of course will be answered by we will be asking the different speakers to respond to a few questions. You will be having about five minutes to respond and I would like to give the floor to start with Florence so that you can answer a few of the questions that were posed to you by the participants. You have about five minutes before we move on to James. Florence the floor is yours. Yes thank you very much Cristina. So looking broadly at the questions they were at the beginning question about if small farmers and poverty reduction objectives were targeted and so yes obviously you saw now with the presentation of Mozambique that our main targets are value chains where small holders are involved and where the objective is really to make more supply or nutritious food available but also to increase the income for small farmers and to reduce poverty. So it's really interesting in this approach because normally you are targeting or either one or the other but it's not so evident that you could address both and it's what we are trying to do with this approach where we are looking mainly at value chains for national markets, value chains for consumers, national consumers, a value chain even for pool consumers or let's say we've limited access to nutritious food and how we can make with a more efficient value chain but this food will be available for the consumer. So we are trying to address all along the value chain you saw also in the presentation from Mozambique different interventions from roads to processing schools etc. So there is an all range of interventions and possibilities that could be taken into account so it's not something that we can do all the same everywhere it's just some kind of menu where you have to adapt looking at the situation but it's the idea of this methodology to be quite flexible but to put nutrition in the center of the approach. There is also one question about if the approach could be applying also for issues of malnutrition to the sense of obesity and countries where we have issues with people consuming too much certain food on having a bad nutrition habits and in this case we can also do it for example by promoting more for example fruit and vegetable value chains and we are now entering in the next year will be the international year of fruit and vegetable and we are seeing that fruit and vegetable are not produced enough in enough quantity and at the price that is accessible for our consumer to be able to feed all the population with enough fruit and vegetable as the recommendation of WHO is recommending so there is a huge opportunity for small farmers and small holders to contribute to for example increasing the production in a more efficient way of fruit and vegetable for national markets in general so I will leave it here for the question I managed to see and maybe James and the other panelists can complement. Thank you so James you have the floor and you could start answering some of the questions. Thank you Christina yeah there's a bunch of questions so as Fabio said we will also try to later at least provide some some brief answers to all the questions if I don't get to your questions here there were a few questions about where the different agencies are working Ethiopia or eastern Africa etc I will let the other agency speak for themselves but I think all of us work in in all regions Africa Asia Latin America and there are similar interesting projects and support for this wherever we work in Ethiopia for example A4NH has a has a has a strong presence and also we have a strong presence in Kenya and Nigeria there were questions about how this might be used and what kinds of what kinds of successful case studies and I believe Marion Odonegma was still on the line and she was instrumental in providing technical assistance in terms of particularly eastern southern Africa for EFAD in terms of nutrition so maybe she has something to say specifically about other projects there and Isabel as well La Peña is online and I know that they have EFAD has tried to adapt this approach to use this approach in Vietnam and Bolivia and Mauritania in Honduras and Bangladesh so there are some interesting experiences that are coming out of that as well as Mozambique that we just heard about there was a question about how do you address for example the challenges some of the major challenges for example around policy around food safety standards etc I think something that that hopefully you got out of the presentation but also something that Florence was saying is that this is an approach you can take you can apply this to any country you can apply it to to to whatever your particular context is if those are issues for example step three which is about how do you do your standard what would be typically a value chain analysis which would talk about where the constraints where the bottlenecks where the opportunities so you still apply those kinds of analyses that would indeed look at what are the challenges around the policy environment the enabling environment as well as for example food safety standards that was one of the things that came through for example in Nigeria where they talked a lot about the way that products were being that were being shipped from farm gate to the market to consumers so one is the analysis and then the next step of course is to hold for example in Indonesia they held a workshop an implementation workshop that then would I that would talk about these identified problems and what the potential solutions are that then the projects itself could could take up so I think it's mostly just thinking about what the process is and of course the flexibility as Florence said to be able to address the different issues as they come up this also would be for example the question that is about what can you do about small holders being involved what can you do about post harvest loss I would just point out that this particular framework was developed from a small holders perspective and EFAD has small holders really as their primary clients beneficiaries of their projects so there's lots of experience within EFAD as well as support from from FAO in terms of how to work with small holders and there are some some key examples then particularly around value chains because around 80 percent of EFAD's portfolio is around the development of value chains specifically for small holders I think a really key question and I'm not going to attempt to answer this but I will throw it out there for those of you who are working in the field is it how might you carry out this kind of an approach during lockdown because we did you can do some of the secondary data collection probably but it would be difficult I would think to go to the field but I think some countries are different than others and I know that EFAD is continuing to work in terms of project design and it would be interesting to know know how they do that there were also the final question that I will will talk about is a question about whether this kind of an approach making value chains nutrition sensitive also addresses issues around obesity and in cds and addresses the environmental considerations and Florence talked about that a little bit I would just say that again this was developed particularly in terms of sort of a small holder centric kind of project in mind but there's no reason I don't think that you couldn't apply the same steps and in fact I would think that the food different food councils in different in different cities particularly also think about how do they understand the nutrition problems the dietary problems how do we have a territorial approach to link urban with rural areas and the small and the different producers in those areas and certainly then to to to bring healthier foods to the market for for the different consumers EFAD has addressed environmental considerations and a lot of its projects through a long-standing project that looks at climate change and climate resilience there's a publication that talks about nutrition and the role of and the role of this particular kind of approach in terms of addressing climate I would also say that ccafs which is the climate change of food security research program of cgir addresses a lot of these environmental and sustainability issues as well as does the world business council on sustainable development and one of the things that we've also been involved in all of us is the is the development of the voluntary guidelines for on food systems for nutrition which tries specifically to infuse considerations about nutrition into the whole food system and those guidelines are now being developed by the committee on world food security and should be approved next February and I think those are some of the more specific aspects of how do you address putting nutrition into the food system and there is of course the high level panel of experts report on that particular topic that was that came out last year thanks okay thank you yeah indeed and James was mentioning on the SLE learning academy there will be all the information of these webinars so you will have access to the the videos you will have access to the presentation that you will be able to download and you will also have access to the Q&A documents where the the experts that were involved in this webinar will be providing the answers to your question but before we conclude I would like to ask Carla and custodial to respond to some of the questions that were related to the case study of Mozambique so the floor is yours yeah thank you hello thank you can you hear me yes thank you and once again thank you for the this opportunity for giving us this opportunity the ten minutes it's always it's always a challenge and especially when you have um audience like this for a topic like nutrition you see it's really a challenge I have seen a number of questions we've seen several questions and comments on our presentations um and we find them helpful maybe in trying to select one or two questions to deal with uh deal with them at this stage one question that I like I would like to take is this related to the demand how do we increase the demand of nutritious um diets I I think this is um is can be done in in in a number of ways but perhaps the the most important the most important way is to deal with the is to is to is to is to do deal with through nutrition uh education I think this is what the effort in the effort projects we've been doing over the last um years also in investing in nutrition education and just to give you an example for example when people are promoting garden sometimes they take the produce from the gardens and they sell and they go and buy food that are not nutritious this is something that shows to us that the education is needed to be I mean um further and improve to ensure that people understand the value of the food that is coming from their gardens one other thing that other question that came is related to the use of schools in terms of disseminating the message yes again it's a combination of methods we use extension service but at the same time we do use the schools um in the in promoting the the the the the message uh about nutrition and we we all know the value that the schools present in terms of having young people who easily adopt some of these message and then they can take and then they can use the use it to teach um to to to to to teach the older people in their in their in their families I will leave uh to Carla maybe for one or two um the comments of the questions off that we have I I think we can deal with those questions some of these those questions later on in writing thank you and over to you Carla thank you I hope you can hear me I'm going to answer yes I'm going to answer to a couple of questions one of the questions I think it's a very important it brings a very important issue which is the issue of sustainability um in our case specifically we are going to the end of the project so the project is going to close in 2021 so of course sustainability is one of our major concerns how to make sure that all these investment all these positive results that we we got uh can be consolidated and can continue after the project closure and first of all we'd like to say that we believe that investing in behavior changing it's very challenging but it is in itself an element of sustainability because once people change the way they do things the tendency is that they will continue now we have for instance some examples in the the communities that refer that the beneficiary says that introducing improved hygiene and sanitation measures and providing children with enriched porridge which was introduced by the project they noticed that the children had less frequent diarrhea so this means that they are seeing an advantage in doing this so they are not just doing it because the project said so they see an advantage a very a very a very clear advantage in the health of their children so there is no reason they will stop doing it because the project is not there so this is just an example the second element of sustainability is that we made sure that throughout the both phases we we had a very strong involvement of the government at from the district the province and also at national level so technicians from all the relevant sectors of the government were involved in the training they were involved in the planning and they were involved in the monitoring activities so we think that this is also an element of sustainability the other thing that we think that it's it's important to guarantee the sustainability is what ustodium mentioned that we have some new projects that are funded by EFAT in the same project area so geographically there is a coincidence of these projects and all these new projects they were uh designed with a nutrition sensitive lens so uh differently from promere that was designed in 2008 these new projects they have a nutrition sensitive lens so we hope that they can continue the work that was started by promere so this is some of the elements of sustainability that we think that will somehow make sure that all this investment is not going to be lost the other thing that also i would also like to mention is that at local level the communities where we were working we always made sure that we had some activists community activists and these activists uh they they continue to work uh they are working you know they are spreading they are disseminating the message they are doing nutrition education they are invited by the you know by by by the government whenever there is a trade fair or there is some event at the district level to make the hooking demonstration to to to to to disseminate the work they also work in health centers um they go and and they do these sessions awareness sessions in health centers so we think that all these are elements that are going to guarantee somehow the sustainability of the project okay thank you thank you very much carla uh we are coming to the end of the webinar but i wanted to mention a few things there is also another sorry yes there was also another another question was uh if the valley chain commodity are the one promoted partially for consumption or income from valley chain is used for purchasing nutritious foods or general nutrition promotional food demonstration is done parallel to by the chain activities uh this is a very big question but uh basically what what we can say about this is what we are doing at local level we don't work with specific value chains we are promoting whatever value chain has as a market linkers project we are promoting with whatever value chain has potential in the region so before we introduce this nutrition component and before we introduce this new approach uh the focus of course was on the on the value chains on the produce that has better markets and uh with this nutrition with the introduction introduction of this new approach what we do is to make sure that from the planning of what the farmers are going to produce uh they start thinking about what it is important in terms of nutrition for them and what it is or and also how can they uh sell not only produce nutrition food but also sell you know and put it in the market so it's not uh we cannot separate things this is a market linkers project so this is this is our main focus the only thing we did was to make sure that within this focus we take into consideration the nutrition aspects thank you thank you very much and uh thank you thank you and I think I'm going to stop here thank you I uh I just wanted to mention uh we are coming the webinar is coming to an end and I wanted to mention a few things the first one was that even uh James mentioned nutrition since nutrition situation analysis and I wanted to mention that the FAE learning academy there are a number of nutrition related courses and we also have a nutrition situation analysis course that I invite you all to have a look at and we also listed here a number of courses that could be of interest so first of all uh the course that we are promoting here today which is the sustainable food value chains for nutrition here you have the the link plus developing gender sensitive value chains and other courses related to uh sustainability so I would like to um to thank all the speakers I would like to also thank um our partner uh of our partner organizers which are and agrinium I would like special thanks to uh Aristit Bukare and Fabio Picic and of course all of you the participants thank you very much for attending and for your excellent questions thank you all very much bye bye