Reclaiming nutrition

NUTRITION > DIVERSIFYING PRODUCTION

Nutrition from innovation,

and taste from waste

From a situation of widespread undernutrition, consuming fresh vegetables all year round has now become a reality for many Nepali households thanks to their expanding home gardens. But the stories they tell show that the benefits of home gardens are not limited to improving household nutrition. The gardens also help to empower women and conserve biodiversity, two much needed conditions for better family and community nutrition on a broader scale. Roshan Mehta, Roshan Pudasaini and Jacob Zucker

12 | Farming Matters | December 2014

Reclaiming nutrition

Published on Dec 10, 2014

Food

AgriCultures Network

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Nutrition has become one of the buzz words of the year, like resilience, and landscapes. What they have in common is that they refer to complex situations, where economic and political forces override the needs and aspirations of rural and urban communities. However, the nutrition challenge remains clear, with a billion hungry people on this planet and another two billion overweight. Persistent hunger and undernutrition are inexcusable in a world of plenty. But the question is who should act and how? This issue includes examples of ‘how’, by regenerating food cultures and traditional farming methods, and calling for a rights-based approach to food and nutrition. We see in these stories, a move away from monocultures and towards multifunctional, climate resilient agroecological systems. Driven by nutrition and economic concerns, family farmers are diversifying their crops and developing local markets which provide both rural and urban communities a better variety of food on their plate

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