Case Studies in Nutrition in Agriculture

Excerpts from the report Foreword: The purpose of this work is to provide an organizational framework for the preparation of case studies documenting agricultural research and development projects that explicitly address food consumption or nutritional concerns in project objectives, design, implementation, and evaluation. It is assumed that a series of case studies will be prepared over the next few years and that subsequent cases will be prepared by individuals closely associated with the projects described. To that end, this report outlines a conceptual framework for approaching the documentation of agricultural projects that include nutritional goals, proposes a format for case presentation, presents criteria for selection of appropriate projects for treatment as case studies, and suggests a set as of priorities for the inclusion of subsequent cases in order to assure comparability of case studies and an even representation of projects in the completed case study series. Two case studies based on the format developed in this document are also presented here. These are the Adaptive Crops Research and Extension Project and the International Sorghum and Millet Project. These projects represent very different ways of addressing the issues of food consumption and nutrition in agricultural research and development.