Nutrition in Mountain Agro-ecosystems (NMA) 6. Honey production and marketing . Capacitate farmers in modern technology of apiculture and honey Nutrition in Mountain Agro-ecosystems (NMA) project replicates and scales production, and develop its resource persons at local level. sustainable agricultural practices in mountain ecosystems to promote . Capacitates target community in post-harvest handling, including improved nutrition and resilience driven by an action network of empowered processing and packaging of honey, and establishes its market linkage. Rural Service Providers (RSPs) aiming at broad impact on micro, national and global levels. 7. Consumption, processing and marketing of nettle . Raise awareness on nutritional and medicinal value of neglected stinging Theme of micro-interventions and its messages nettle plant. 1. School nutrition . Transfer knowledge, technology and skill of its harvesting, processing and . Impart theoretical and practical knowledge and skill about nutrition and link to the market. nutrition sensitive agriculture (NSA) and facilitate to reflect it in their . Deliver knowledge and method of its preparation and consumption. household level, and ultimately in community level in large. . Support in evidence-based policy advocacy to incorporate NSA-related 8. Media for nutrition improvement curricula at local level, in particular. . Disseminate nutrition message to improve nutrition via media, ultimately changing behaviour of people in remote and inaccessible areas. 2. Homestead garden promotion . Promote knowledge, news and information about different agricultural . Diversifying production of food and food items to enhance nutritional production technologies, nutrition and nutritional importance of different status of people. food, and other informative news and message. . Minimizing post-harvest loss of vegetables and link it to the market through value chain approach. Table 1: Theme of micro-intervention and its implementation areas Number of Thematic cluster of micro- SN micro- Working areas 3. Promotion of food recipe interventions interventions . Promote knowledge and skill about preparing different food recipe using Mugu ( Student-targeted nutrition locally available foods. 1 4 3); ( Municipality 7, 11; education . Impart the knowledge about nutrient contents of different foods (legumes, 1) leafy vegetables, fruits etc), its importance for human health. Kalikot ( Municipality 6; Narharinath Rural Municipality 8); Household level homestead 2 5 Achham (Kamalbazaar Municipality 7; 4. Promotion of local agricultural crops for nutrition improvement garden promotion Mellekh Rural Municipality 7; . Provide technical knowledge, skill and input of growing nutrient rich local Sanfebagar Municipality 10) agricultural crops and post-harvest handling techniques to the farmers. Dailekh (Dullu Municipality 11; Gurans . Improve food habit through including local foods in their meal. Promotion of diversified food Rural Municipality 3); Kalikot (Kalika 3 4 . Link local agricultural products to market. items (recipe) Rural Municipality 6; Municipality 3)

Jajarkot (Triveni Municipality 5. Improving nutrition through organic manure Promotion of common grain 4.1 legumes for nutrition 3 1), Bajura (Badimalika Municipality 1; . Provide technical knowledge and skill to target beneficiaries, especially improvement Chhededaha Rural Municipality 7) women to identify and produce nutritious, safe and health food. Mugu (Chhayanath Rara Municipality Promotion of local agricultural 9, 11; Soru Rural Municipality 8; Mugu . Deliver knowledge and skill to women and local community on preparing 4.2 crops (bean, millet etc) for 6 Karmarong Rural Municipality 4); organic manure (vermi-compost) and bio-pesticides at household level. nutrition improvement Jumla (Tila Rural Municipality 7;

Patarasi Rural Municipality 4) Improving nutrition through Banke ( Sub-Metropolitan 5 2 organic manure City 18, 20) Honey production and 6 2 Jajarkot (Triveni Nalgad Municipality 1) marketing Consumption, processing and 7 1 Dailekh (Narayan Municipality 5) marketing of nettle Media for nutrition Nutrition in Mountain Agro-ecosystems (NMA) 8 improvement (printed media, 3 Dailekh, Jajarkot local FM radio, online media) Theme of micro-interventions and its messages Total 30

Production diversification The Project in : In brief Marketing based on including nutrient rich foods nutrient content (local 30 rural service providers are implementing micro-interventions (8 themes) on (vegetables, pulses, fruits, agri-products) honey etc) different strategies of making agriculture nutrition sensitive: production diversification and production of nutrient rich foods (vegetables, fruits, pulses, honey etc) thereby improving its availability and access, marketing based on nutrient content, nutrition education, maintaining and improving natural Collaboration and resource base (e.g., vermi-compost), collaboration and coordination with coordination with multi-sectors other sectors etc. These micro-interventions have benefitted 2,870 households (68% disadvantaged group) on nutrition sensitive agriculture; additional ~9,200 households are reached via the micro-interventions on Maintaining and improving natural resource base media. All rural service providers graduated the Capacity Development (vermi-compost) Programme that was carried for the period of 12 months.

Nutrition sensitive agriculture is incorporated in local level policy, e.g., in Nutrition education district level agricultural development strategy, local level school curricula. (school nutrition garden) The message of nutrition sensitive agriculture is being promoted via different kinds of awareness raising and behaviour change communication campaigns. Strategies of Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture and micro-interventions Till now around 356 service providers have joined the internet-based platform of Mountain Agro-ecosystems Action Network (https://maan.ifoam.bio).

A policy gap analysis on nutrition sensitive agriculture has identified the issues of nutrition sensitive agriculture and prepared framework and plan for national level policy advocacy in this area; based on the study finding, a discussion paper on ‘agriculture for health and nutrition has been developed Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Programme as knowledge product. Similarly, field level evidences were verified in Chakupat, Lalitpur, Nepal collaboration with SUN Civil society alliance; its key findings and key GPO Box 688, Kathmandu, Nepal. messages were shared with main actors, policy-makers and other Tel.: +977 1 5260276, 5260346, 5260939 stakeholders at national level. It is expected the field evidences that are being E-mail: [email protected] generated from micro-interventions to strengthen policy advocacy for nutrition sensitive agriculture. https://maan.ifoam.bio