Project Launch: Nutrient-rich small fish production, processing and marketing in Myanmar and Zambia

ü The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge
ü An initiative which seeks to inspire and support innovative, diverse and multidisciplinary teams
ü Creation of game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system
Homestead aquaculture, and pelagic capture, to bring sustainable nutrient-rich small fish
production for a healthy and affordable option for consumers, especially those who need
it most such as young children and pregnant and lactating women
While almost all aquaculture production is destined for direct human consumption, the proportion from
capture fisheries now stands at around 78 %. About three quarters of the global fish production not destined
for direct human consumption is reduced to fishmeal and oil (Guillen J. et al., 2019)
This IFT grant will assist with the delivery
of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 1
(End Poverty); 2 (End Hunger); 3 (Good
Health); and 5 (Gender Equality)
The Donor
The Project Small-Fish Production and Marketing (SPM) Myanmar and Zambia
The Issue

Nutrient-rich small fish production, processing
and marketing in Myanmar and Zambia (SPM)
Quennie Vi Rizaldo

Nutrient-rich small fish production, processing and
marketing in Myanmar and Zambia (SPM)
1. Project goal
2. Project expected outputs
3. Project interventions
4. Project indicators
5. Partnerships

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Goal: To improve production, processing and marketing of nutrient-rich small
fish resulting in increased income, dietary diversity, change nutrition and
aquaculture behaviors, and reduce poverty among vulnerable populations
especially women and children.

Expected outputs
Output 1. Improved production and productivity of household ponds and dykes, using
innovative technologies that include integration of small indigenous fish species and
carps in ponds.
Output 2. Increased production of local food products with dried small fish powder
through private sector.
Output 3. Increased consumption of micronutrient rich small fish, fish based processed
products, and vegetables especially in women and young children through social
behaviour change communication activities.
Output 4. Strengthened partnership with national institutions, private sector, civil society
in implementing and disseminating information on integrated fish agri-food systems and
fish based processed products in diets.

Project interventions
• Build capacity of farmers on SSA technology, integration of SIS and large fish and
utilizing pond embankments for vegetable/ fruit production.
• Provide access to inputs e.g. SIS broodstock, fish fingerlings, vegetable/ fruits seeds
• Promotion of food products enhanced with dried small fish powder through youth
sales agents, and retail stores.
• Create activities that focuses on changing and sustaining positive nutrition behaviors;
identifying barriers and promoters of behaviors (e.g role plays, practical
demonstrations, care group models- interpersonal communication) .
• Engage multiple stakeholders from the government (Zambia), donors, NGOs, and
private sectors, youth, SUN network in disseminating messages on the importance of
fish in the diets.

Project indicators
150 households produce fish using
innovative systems such as polyculture
2000 women, children, and vulnerable
people improve nutrition through increased
consumption of aquatic food products
40 Lead/Model mothers trained in
preparation of fish-based foods under
the Care Group Model
120 young people including women
engaged in marketing and enterprise of
fish-based products to increase their
incomes
100 fish producers engaged as
sources of fish used for processing
5000 people reached through various
communication platforms increasing their
awareness on the importance of fish-
based products for improved nutrition

Partnerships
Donor
Institute of Food Technologists
Partners
Myanmar
• Fedwell Foods Ltd
Zambia
• Ministry of Health,
• National Food and Nutrition Commission,
• Ministry of Agriculture
• SUN CSA Alliance- Zambia

Thank You
Funded by
In partnership with

Status of
Nutrition in
Zambia
National Food and Nutrition
Commission
By Raider Habulembe Mugode

Introduction
§Nutrition status is an individual's health condition influenced
by the intake and utilization of nutrients (Todhunter, 1970).
§Nutrition is a primary determinant of health
§ life span; the rate of aging; and reproductive capacity (Walker et al. 2005; Fontana
et al. 2010).
§Exposure to a particular food or diet determines the benefits
that could be derived as a result of that exposure (Sempos, 1999).
§ Exposure to deficiency or over diet, or mycotoxins
§Long term exposure to high quality nutrients has much
benefits on health and nutrition status (Lennernas,1998; Birch, 2007).

§ Malnutrition is associated with:
§ poor economic productivity,
§ Poor maternal and child health- LBW, Stunted newborns, miscarriages
§ inadequate individual and national development
§ progress in reducing malnutrition and undernourishment has been
made attributed to:
§ Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)
§ Other policy reforms between 2010 and 2021
§ Undernourishment has reduced from 51% in 2007 to 44.5% in 2017
§ Stunting reduced from 46% (2007) to 35% (2018)
§ The Annual Rate of Reduction has been slow
§ averaging 1 percent per year contrary to the country’s potential.

Trends in Nutritional Status
Percent of children under age 5
46
6
21
49
5
19
53
6
23
45
5
15
40
6
15
35
4
12
Stunting Wasting Underweight
1992 1996 2001-02 2007 2013-14 2018
*Based on the 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards
Zambia Demographic and Health Survey

Malnutrition among adolescent and women
0
5
10
15
20
25
Undernutrition Overnutrition
15
12
10
19
10
23
Trends in nutritional status of women
aged 15-49 years
2001-02 2007 2013-14
0
5
10
15
20
Undernutrition Overnutrition
20
5.6
14.6
8.2
16.4
8.6
Trends in nutritional status of
adolescent girls aged 15-19 years
2001-02 2007 2013-14
Lack of recent data on maternal and adolescent nutrition (ZDHS 2018
not captured BMI data

Anemia among maternal, adolescent, infant and
young children
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
15-19 20-29 30-39 40-49
33
28
31
33
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
6-8 9-11 12-17 18-23 24-35 36-47 48-59
73
77 77
72
59
49
41
Adolescent
Women
Children under 6-23
months
Children aged 24-59
months
High rate of anemia among adolescent, women and children shows intergenerational cycle of
malnutrition in Zambia; highlighting the need for focusing first 1000-days group
An estimated 58% of children under five were anaemic, with
the highest prevalence of 77% amongst children less than 24
months old.

Nutrition service coverage
• % of women taking iron
supplementation for 90 days
or more increased from 59%
in 2013-14 to 73% in 2018
• % of women taking
deworming medication
during pregnancy increased
from 64% in 2013-14 to 77%
in 2018
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Iron
supplementation
in PW
Folic acid
supplementation
in PW
Deworming in
pregnant women
Early initiation of
BF
Screening rate of
children
88
111
80
75
19
77 78 75
82
23
70
63
73
83
27
51 52
61
87
15
Nutrition service coverage 2018-21
2018 2019 2020 2021

Factors contributing to poor nutritional
status

Children are fed with poor diet
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
MDD MMF MAD
26
49
16
17
22
4
23
42
13
BF NBF All
• Minimum Dietary Diversity is
worst among 6-8 moths group;
• Less are fed Minimum Meal
Frequency as the age increases
• Only 9% in rural area are fed as
per recommended Minimum
Acceptable Diet (18% in urban)

Sub-optimal IYCF practices
• Decline in IYCF practices has been observed:
• Reduced exclusive breastfeeding from 73% to 70% between 2014-18
• Reduced consumption of vitamin A rich foods from 84% in 2007 to 79% in
2018 in children 6-23 months
• Reduced consumption of iron rich foods from 63% to 54% 6-23 months

Parttern of consumption of food items by number of days in
a week
0 7
% %
Cereal 2.9 85.7
White tuber 73.7 6.8
Yellow vegetable &tubers 86.1 3.9
Dark green leafy vegetables 11.6 51.9
Vitamin A rich fruits 36.9 33.7
Others fruits 81.3 3.9
Meat 56.5 2.5
Eggs 65.4 3.8
Fish 42.6 3.8
Legume, nuts, seeds 47.3 4.3
Milk & Milk Products 70.5 11.1
Oils/fats 20.8 56.3
Non alcoholic beverages 42.7 34.6
Number of days food was consumed
Food group

Low consumption of animal source foods
Food item Per capita annual
recommended
Current per capita annual
consumption level
Milk 200 litres 20 litres
Beef meat 33 Kg 3 Kg
Fish 45 Kg 10 Kg
Eggs 60 eggs 3.3 eggs
Poultry meat 33 Kg 9.2 Kg

Low consumption of biofortified foods in Zambia,
2020
Type of biofortified food %
Orange maize 9.6
Orange fleshed sweet potato 23.5
Mbereshi beans (Zn & Fe) 17.2

Zambia Policy actions
§Zambia’s vision through the National Food and Nutrition
Policy is to have a well nourished population by the year
2030.
§To achieve this, a number of policy measures are being
pursued:
1) Promoting increased food diversification, production, processing,
storage and consumption.
2) Promoting utilization of all available food resources for
improvement of nutrition status.

Zambia Policy actions 2
§At strategic plan level the country has two operational
strategic directions to promote health diets:
1) Operational Strategic Direction 2: Increasing availability,
accessibility, and use of nutrition's foods
2) Micronutrient deficiency country
§The country has since launched the Healthy Diet campaign

Project Launch: Nutrient-rich small fish production, processing and marketing in Myanmar and Zambia

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