IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION

							IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY AND
         NUTRITION
             by
 INTEGRATING GARDEN -BASED
       LEARNING INTO

PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOL
         CURRICULUM
           Food Security




Garden                     Nutrition
 Based                     Education
learning
Food Security Concept
                        Nutrition
                        education




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                                   PURCHASING
                     FOOD
                                   POWER
                     HABITS
NUTRITIONAL
INFORMATION

                                   AVAILABILITY
STATE OF HEALTH
STATE OF MIND
                     FOOD
                  CONSUMPTION          SOCIAL
                                       INFLUENCE
 CULTURAL
 PATTERNS
                                  ADVERTISING
 COMFORT
 TIME
                              INTRA-FAMILIAR
        HUNGER AND APPETITE   FOOD DISTRIBUTION
    Factors
                    FOOD PREPARATION
                    FRIED FOODS
  HEALTH




ENVIRONMENTAL
CONDITIONS      UTILIZATION
                BIOLOGICAL USE         ACCESS TO
                   OF FOODS            MEDICAL
                                       ATTENTION


FOOD SAFETY


                         HYGIENIC HABITS
       WHAT DOES NUTRITIONAL      EDUCATION
       DO?

    INFORMS

    EMPOWERS

    FACILITATES BEHAVIOUR
    CHANGES

    A TOOL THAT WILL:

   BUILD AND PROMOTE GOOD EATING HABITS
    AND HEALTHY PATTERNS

   DEVELOP KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES AND GOOD
    FOOD PRACTICES
        SCHOOL GARDEN IS A “NURSERY”
        WHERE EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
         GROW AND MULTIPLY


Teach Practical nutrition

Promotes healthy diet and
healthy lifestyles


Promote Environmental education
 Teach Practical agricultural knowledge and skills

Change Attitude in agriculture & rural life
SCHOOL GARDEN AND
NUTRITION EDUCATION




 It must be integrated



Curriculum
SYSTEMATIC



      HOW?
         Basic Level Natural Sciences
         First grade


  Thematic idea           Human beings and health

It will promote awareness of the importance of plants
in their own life. - what human beings & animals get from
plants

              Content

 Understand plants, oxygen-producing plants, plant needs.
 – Basic nutrition standards, hygiene, environmental
 protection
       Metric system - Centimeters               How many persons maintain
       Volume measurements – Gallons, liters,    a school garden, cost
        units, tens, hundreds..
       Estimate of surface area, of small        Demographic education
       plants      Mathematics

History                                                      Chemistry
Former eating
habits                                                       •Hydrogen,
                                                             oxygen, water
                                                             •nitrogenous
                                                             organic
Geography
Production in different
                                                             compounds
regions                              Physics
                          Energy use, physical atmosphere.
 Art                      Rain, humidity, erosion, wind
                          irrigation systems, gravity
      Other functions


Encourages Social Integration

SCHOOLS-PARENTS-COMMUNITY




Method of dissemination


Promotes family and
community-based
gardens
               AGRICULTURE

                               FOOD
                               INSECURITY
                               PROBLEM


                               -MALNUTRITION

           SCHOOL GARDENS      -CHRONIC
                               DISEASES
               INTEGRATE
               CONTRIBUTE
                SOLVE
HEALTH
                                EDUCATION
NUTRITIONAL EDUCATION
HEALTH/HIV/AIDS              SCHOOL FEEDING
       NUTRITION IN THE CARIBBEAN
           Health Report
    30% OF THE POPULATION OVER 35 YEARS OLD
    SUFFER FROM BLOOD PRESSURE
                                     P
    10-12 % SUFFER FROM DIABETES
                                     A
                                     I
COUNTRIES HAVE EPIDEMIC              S
PROPORTIONS OF:

DIABETES             MAJOR CAUSES
HYPERTENSION           OF DEATH
HEART ATTACKS
CANCER

                   •Availability and consumption of
                   fruits and vegetables
          Healthy snacking through
        garden –based learning (GBL)
Agro-nutritional intervention/behaviour
changes (kindergarten to sixth grade)
Objective:
•Promote production and consume a variety of fruits
 and vegetables

•Integrate educational material into curriculum
and development

•Establish an agricultural community support
mechanism (sustainability)
       Components                 Change
                                  FOOD HABITS

        AGRICULTURAL
         PRODUCTION       G
                                      EDUCATION
                                       VENDORS
 EAT A VARIETY OF FOODS   A
     BE CREATIVE
                          R          EDUCATION
          Food                        TEACHERS
      PREPARATION         D
                                   EDUCACION
  PORTION CONTROL         E         PARENTS

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       ENVIRONMENT                 Polices develop
                          S
    READING LABELS
                              Educational material
                                          EXERCISE
AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT
AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT




           Child
                            school
                   family

                             Community



               sustainability
     EXPERIMENTAL SCHOOL GARDEN

     INTEGRATED SCHOOL GARDEN

 WORM CULTURE

   BIO-INTENSIVE

    ORGANIC

  GARDEN ON A SQUARED METRE
Types of gardens
  Salsa, Pizza ,Alphabet, Culinary and herbs
  Roots, Three sisters     beans-corn-pumpkin
 Example
 1. Carrot




 2. Lettuce




 3. Broccoli




Questionnaire to evaluate food
preferences in children
Happy Face Scale
  WHO ARE OUR PARTNERS

ASSOCIATIONS
DIABETES
HEART



 USAID
 AGRICULTURE
 EDUCATION




PRIVATE
COMPANY            OTHER UNITED
                   NATIONS AGENCIES
Secondary    Integrate science-based agro business
  school      marketing approach, into curriculum


 healthy school feeding ;promote fruit& vegetables

            teachers training/ material

 National policicies              Business marketing

                                     Agro business


 Mechanism establish among School feeding and
 Agriculture science-agro business to sell produce
                           GAP
Business


              Systematic
                                  GMP
           Integrate approach
                  from
              Farm -table

                                HACCP

Marketing
                       Ministry of Education/Health



 Agricultural curriculum
                                                School garden
 Secondary School
                                                learning-teaching
-Integrate Agriculture                          Primary school
science-based agro            School
                                                    -Reinforce curriculum
business                      feeding               Sciences, Mathematics
-Develop a business           Programme
approach to acquire                                 -Integrate nutritional
agricultural production                             education and food
marketing skill                                     security
                                                -increase appreciation
- National polices                              through agricultural
to regulate business
                            School Garden
                                                knowledge
marketing (cost                                 Agro-chain
recovery system)

                          Ministry of Agriculture
Thanks