#AskAg: Linking Agriculture, Nutrition, and USAID Strategy
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Growing healthy foods is good. Making sure they're eaten is better. Ensuring projects and organizations support these efforts at the same time is best.
Please join Agrilinks for an #AskAg Twitter Chat on linking agriculture and nutrition. Experts from USAID, the 1000 Days Initiative, and the SPRING Project will be on hand to provide insights into why agriculture and nutrition programming can go hand in hand, what challenges face program designers and implementers, and the role that USAID's new Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy plays in addressing these efforts. Participants are encouraged to share their experiences and resources, and to contribute evidence and perspective on how to best make integrated programming get maximum nutritional outputs from agricultural inputs.
Twitter accounts to follow
| Presenters | Organizations & featured contributors |
| Jennifer Rigg: @jennrigg | Devex: #feedingdev |
| Heather Danton: @SPRINGProject2 | The FSN Network: @FSNNetwork |
| Katherine Dennison: @DennisonKM | |
Potential Guiding Questions
- Why is optimal nutrition so important, in the first 1000 days & beyond?
- How are agriculture and nutrition linked? Let's list all the possible pathways...go!
- What role do women play in improving household nutrition?
- How can we link nutrition and agriculture development programs for better nutrition outcomes?
How to participate
- If you are new to Twitter, visit Twitter.com to sign up for an account. (For more tips on getting started, check out our Twitter training.)
- Explore the guiding questions that will be discussed during the chat.
- Join us for discussion by using the hashtag #AskAg and following @Agrilinks.
- You can also follow on Twubs or through the livestream below.
Livestream:
Speakers
Katherine Dennison
USAID Bureau for Food Security
Jennifer Rigg
InterAction/1000 Days
Jennifer Rigg is Director of Policy and Partnerships at the 1,000 Days Initiative. Prior to holding this position she worked at Save the Children on public policy and advocacy, leading advocacy on nutrition and food security, livelihoods, foreign aid reform, early childhood development, and education. As an InterAction Food Security Working Group Co-Chair during her time with Save the Children, Jennifer helped organize the 1,000 Days launch in 2010. She also serves on the Roadmap to End Global Hunger Steering Group. Her past positions were with CARE, United Way Worldwide, Agros International, and the American Friends Service Committee. Earlier in her career, Jennifer served as an Americorps*VISTA with TeamTECH, an innovative public-private partnership to build the technology capacity of nonprofit organizations.
Jennifer holds a Master in Public Administration and graduate certificate in International Development Policy and Management from the University of Washington, certificate in Leadership and Nonprofit Management from the University of Washington/Learning Institute for Nonprofits, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies/Political Science from Emory University.
Heather Danton
SPRING Project
Heather Danton has over 20 years of experience in the area of food security and livelihoods and is a specialist in the design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation of programs that integrate economic and agricultural development with nutrition. She began working with Strengthening Partnerships, Results and Innovations (SPRING) Project to coordinate all aspects of the Agriculture and Nutrition Global Learning and Evidence Exchange (AgN-GLEE) workshops held in 2012 and 2013, and has since become the Food Security and Nutrition Director for the project.
Previously, Heather worked as a Technical Advisor, and then Senior Director of Food Security and Livelihoods, at Save the Children in Washington, DC, where she oversaw and ensured quality implementation of Save the Children's entire food security portfolio, including its USAID/Food for Peace-funded Title II programs in ten countries. In addition to working internationally, Heather served as Vice President for South Eastern Economic Development (SEED) Corporation, a non-profit Certified Development Company in Massachusetts, doing small business lending and entrepreneurial training in association with the U.S. Small Business Administration.
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