Taking action: Five ways to improve nutrition through agriculture now

- Tailoring nutrition-sensitive agriculture programs and interventions based on context-specific gaps is critical and points to the need for a more complex, systems approach to design, implementation, and measurement.
- We need come to a shared understanding of where to include nutrition within food and agricultural market systems and to assist the range of market and development stakeholders to act on those opportunities.
- In particular, NGOs, private sector producers, and government agencies need to act in a coordinated manner affecting both supply and demand of nutrient-rich foods and leverage the parts of the market system they can best influence.
- Incentives are needed to help move producers, consumers, and other market actors toward the use of more nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices to promote the consumption of healthy diets.
- A shared vocabulary for nutrition that resonates with and is used among a broad base of multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary stakeholders representative of private and public interests is needed.