Haddad Lawrence
Institute of Development Studies, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.
Food Nutr Bull. 2013 Mar;34(1):39-44. doi: 10.1177/156482651303400105.
Agriculture has the potential to have a bigger impact on nutrition status than it currently does. The pathways between agriculture and nutrition are well known. Yet the evidence on how to increase the impact of agriculture on nutrition is weak.
To outline some of the possible reasons for the weak evidentiary link between agriculture and income and to highlight some approaches to incentivizing agriculture to give nutrition a greater priority.
A review of literature reviews and other studies.
Agriculture does not have a strong poverty and nutrition impact culture, the statistical links between aggregate agriculture and nutrition data are weak, literature reviews to date have not been sufficiently clear on the quality of evidence admitted, and the evidence for the impact of biofortification on nutrition status is positive, but small. Some tools are proposed and described that may be helpful in raising the profile of nutrition outcomes, building nutrition outcomes into impact assessments of agriculture, measuring the commitment to undernutrition reduction, and helping to prioritize nutrition-relevant actions within agriculture. Leadership in agriculture and nutrition is also an understudied issue.
Agriculture has a vast potential to increase its impact on nutrition outcomes. We don't know if this potential is being fully realized as yet. I suspect it is not. Tools that help promote the visibility of nutrition within agriculture and the accountability of agriculture toward nutrition can possibly contribute to moving "from Nutrition Plus to Nutrition Driven" agriculture.
农业对营养状况的影响潜力比目前更大。农业与营养之间的途径已为人熟知。然而，关于如何增强农业对营养影响的证据却很薄弱。
概述农业与收入之间证据联系薄弱的一些可能原因，并强调一些激励农业更加重视营养的方法。
对文献综述和其他研究进行回顾。
农业缺乏强大的减贫与营养影响文化，总体农业与营养数据之间的统计联系薄弱，迄今为止的文献综述对所纳入证据的质量不够明确，生物强化对营养状况影响的证据是积极的，但作用较小。提出并描述了一些工具，这些工具可能有助于提高营养成果的关注度，将营养成果纳入农业影响评估，衡量减少营养不良的承诺，并有助于在农业中确定与营养相关行动的优先次序。农业和营养领域的领导力也是一个研究不足的问题。
农业在增强对营养成果影响方面具有巨大潜力。我们尚不清楚这种潜力是否得到充分发挥。我怀疑尚未充分发挥。有助于提高营养在农业中的可见度以及农业对营养问责制的工具，可能有助于推动农业“从营养加转向营养驱动”。
