Fruits and Vegetables for health Introductive features and goals

FAO-MAF-CIRAD Joint Workshop:Fruits and Vegetables for HealthIHC2006, August 15-16th, Seoul, Korea

Fruits and Vegetablesfor health

Introductive features and goals

Jacky GANRY, Deputy Director Research

CIRAD www.cirad.fr

FAO visiting scientist

http://www.cirad.fr/


WHO/FAO Expert Consultation, 2003 and Kobe meeting, 2004:

- Recognition of positive health effects of fruits and vegetables

- But consumption far below the recommended 400g pday/cap in many DCs

- Wordwide 2.7 millions lifes could be saved through better nutrition with F&V

- Low fruit and vegetable consumption is among the top 10 selected risk factors for global mortality

Status


* Preventing Chronic Diseases a Vital Investment. World Health Organization, 2005

Main causes of death, worldwide, 2005Health


* Preventing Chronic Diseases a Vital Investment. World Health Organization, 2005


Fruits and vegetables per capita consumption in East Asian countries

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« the right for every one to have access to safe and nutritional food »

Declaration of the World Food Summit 2002


- CGIAR : Priority given to F&V as added-value and nutritious crops(2003)

- Joint WHO/FAO initiative launched at the Third Global Forum on NCDs Prevention and Control, Rio de J.,nov 2003

- IFAVA : International F&V Alliance, Durban, Sept 2005

- GHI, Montpellier, March 2006

- launching of the ISHS Commission on « Fruits, Vegetable and Health », Seoul, Aug.2006

INITIATIVES


The WHO & FAO fruit and vegetable promotion initiative

…has two main pillars:

– to promote production and consumption of fruit and vegetables so as to promote and improve health and to help prevent noncommunicable and other diseases or deficiencies;

– to advance science in the areas of fruit and vegetable production, distribution, increased consumption, and benefits for health.

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activities

• WHO/FAO workshop, Kobe/Japan, Sept 04

– First time joint workshop between health, nutrition and horticulture scientists;

– Approximately 50 participants from more than 20 countries;

– Developed framework to promote fruit and vegetables at national level

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Framework on fruit and vegetable promotion at national levels

• Guiding principles for a fruit and vegetable programme– Availability– Accessibility– Affordability– Acceptability– Equity– Holistic / integrated approach

• Consumer domains and fruit and vegetable supply networks– Characteristics – Entry points – Barriers

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• Identification of stakeholders– Agriculture or horticulture– Nutrition– Public health– Education– Finance– The private sector – Farmers' unions or other producer associations– Consumer associations, women’s groups– Academic sector– Community leaders

• National coordinating team– Constitution and roles

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• Identification of national goals and objectives

– goals should be realistic and timeframes need to be established according to circumstances at national level

– health, nutrition, production and/or distribution goals

– short-term, medium and long-term objectives

• Activities at national level

– Existing national policies and action plans

– Possible interventions at national level

• Sources of data and data collection

• Monitoring and evaluation

– process, outcome and impact

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activities

• Lisbon Workshop on fruit and vegetables promotion in lusophone countries, Sept 2005

– Study and discuss the possibility of implementing the WHO/FAO Framework for Promoting Fruit and Vegetables at the national level

– Revision of past and ongoing activities to promote fruit and vegetable consumption in participating countries.

– Participants from the health and agriculture sectors from all lusophone countries

– 2 documents were produced in portuguese: a background document and the meeting report

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recent and activities

– Zamora, Honduras, Oct 2005

– Montpellier, France, March 2006 Yaoundé 2007

– Maputo, Mozambique, July 2006

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and now Seoul, Aug. 2006

Same goals as in Lisbon

Aim:

To hold a Workshop on implementing the "Framework for promoting fruit and vegetables at national level" with East Asian countries.

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Objectives:– To review the existing fruit and vegetables policies, programmes

and activities already ongoing in Asian countries

– To characterize fruit and vegetables production and consumption in Asian countries;

– To develop country specific programmes/action plans on implementing the "WHO/FAO Framework for promoting fruit and vegetables at national level"; and

– To foster and strengthen the collaborative work between health and agriculture sectors for fruit and vegetable promotion

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Expected Output: increased capacity building and awareness for enhancing production and consumption of and vegetables, addressing strategy and policy needs as well as technical know-how transfer:

1) Concrete action plans for each participating country to implement the "WHO/FAO Framework for promoting fruit and vegetables at national level".

2) Background document containing information on: the nutritional status of the population and relationship between diet and NCDs; nutrition policies; dietary patterns and fruit and vegetable production and consumption in Asian countries

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THANKS for your

attention…


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