Improving nutrition in Simbu and Eastern Highlands with nutrition-sensitive value chains: the way forward for the Government of Papua New Guinea
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The Highlands region boasts the highest proportion of households engaged in agriculture in Papua New Guinea. Despite this, only one in six children in the Highlands consumes a nutritionally adequate diet to ensure appropriate growth and development. As a result, up to 61 percent of children in the Highlands are found to be stunted and up to 14 percent wasted.To ensure children in the Highlands, as well as women of reproductive age, receive adequate nutrition there is an urgent need to examine food value chains using a nutrition-sensitive approach: from both the supply side (the way foods are produced and made available) and the demand side (factors influencing consumer demand and consumption).Recognizing this need, in 2021 FAO in consultation with government and development partners conducted an assessment to identify requirements to support nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) development in two Highlands provinces: Simbu and Eastern Highlands. The assessment found clear opportunities for stakeholders including national and provincial governments to support NSVC development in the two provinces to not only improve nutrition but to enhance economic and social development.