Linking Agriculture and Natural Resource Management towards Nutrition Security (LANN plus )
Banerjee, S.; Varshneya, N.
Hidden Hunger Strategies to Improve Nutrition Quality 118: 194-205
2018
ISSN/ISBN: 0084-2230 DOI: 10.1159/000484338Document Number: 573718
The multisectoral Linking Agriculture, Natural Resources and Nutrition (LANN+) approach is centered around family nutrition and has an explicit focus on integrating nutrition sensitive sectoral elements that address underlying and basic causes of malnutrition to achieve nutrition security. Based on the UNICEF causal framework of malnutrition, LANN+ focuses on the linkages between agriculture, water sanitation and hygiene, natural resource management, income, market, and nutrition. In Welt-hungerhilfe implemented programs in India, LANN+ seeks behavior change through the "Participatory Learning and Action" methodology, using a rights-based approach, focusing on women's empowerment and strengthening of both community-based institutions as well as local government functionaries for long-term sustainability.