AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION & HEALTH ACADEMY Suneetha Kadiyala - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION & HEALTH ACADEMY Suneetha Kadiyala London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH)

The BIG question How do we make agriculture-food systems healthy and sustainable?

Knowledge gaps constrain action § Weak evidence on: • Linkages (and heterogeneity of these linkages) between agriculture/food systems and nutrition and health outcomes • Policies and programmes that could effectively and sustainably tackle malnutrition § Scattered research efforts with little cross-sectoral and cross-institutional coordination and learning limit progress

AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION & HEALTH ACADEMY (ANH ACADEMY)

History § Leveraging Agriculture for Improving Nutrition and Health conference, IFPRI, 2011 § Annual LCIRAH conferences Vision for a collaborative research network to facilitate sharing, learning and coordination of research across disciplines and sectors.

ANH Academy: Objectives Global network in agriculture, nutrition and health research § Developing robust research concepts, frameworks, methodologies and metrics § Building interdisciplinary research capacity § Facilitating learning and sharing § Informing policy and practice

AIM: To accelerate the development of a robust and coherent scientific evidence base which will support effective policy and investments in agriculture-food systems for improved nutrition. Innova&ve ¡Metrics ¡and ¡Methods ¡for ¡ ¡ Agriculture ¡and ¡Nutri&on ¡Ac&ons ¡ ¡

Resource mobilisation - IMMANA ¡ ¡ New 5-year research partnership funded by UK Department for International Development (DFID) and coordinated by Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡

IMMANA Workstreams 1. Competitive Research Grants to Develop Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions ( IMMANA Grants ) 2. Post-Doctoral Fellowships for Emerging Leaders in Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Research ( IMMANA Fellowships ) 3. Global research network ANH Academy

Agriculture, Nutrition & Health Academy § Founding partners: • LCIRAH/ IMMANA, A4NH A4NH § Core funding for a specific set of activities until 2019 : • IMMANA Other ANH § Co-funding IMMANA Academy Initiatives • CGIAR’s Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH) § Collaborative Partnerships • In the process through LCIRAH stakeholder consultations • Success depends on partnerships

ANH Academy activities § Annual conference in Africa/South Asia § Technical and policy working groups in regions § Seminars and workshops § Training (face-to-face and webinars) § Online platform for resources and knowledge sharing § ?

Membership § Individuals working in agriculture, nutrition and health research with institutional support • Institutional and associate membership under consideration Happy to announce the launch!! § Creators and users (policy, programming) of research § Please become a member!

General information: http://immana.lcirah.ac.uk/agriculture-nutrition-health- academy Become a member: http://immana.lcirah.ac.uk/user/register