Nutrition-Sensitive Interventions and Agriculture Value Chains: Preliminary Lessons from Feed the Future Implementation in Four Countries

In this paper we draw preliminary lessons from four large, threeto five-year-long, agriculture value chain projects being implemented by DAI among smallholder farmers with varying degrees of nutrition sensitivity. The projects are located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Liberia, Malawi, and Tajikistan, and are supported by USAID and the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future (FTF) initiative. Each is expected to improve productivity and incomes for between 250,000 and 400,000 households in implementation areas with populations of up to 3 million. In these projects, we are applying new principles of nutrition sensitivity (Herforth et al., 2012) across previously stove-piped agriculture and health-nutrition programmes and beneficiary groups.