In this Study Session, you have learned that:
  • Nutrition education promotes consumptions of different food varieties. The aim is improving practice related uses of nutrient dense food source and introducing home gardening and new agricultural methods to increase the availability of nutrient rich food sources.
  • The nutrition behaviour change communication is a strategy that you will be able to use to change related nutrition behaviours in your community.
  • Dietary diversification is a long-term and suitable strategy that helps to mobilise the community to grow and consume different nutrient rich food all the time. It is an important strategy for the preventions of micronutrient deficiency.
  • Food fortification is adding one or more micronutrient in the staple food and making the food enrich with essential nutrients.
  • The aim of community-based nutrition (CBN) behaviour changes communication is to improve feeding and dietary behaviour that is compatible with growth, development, longer health survival and productivity.
  • Food security is ensured when all people at all times have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious foods which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
  • The focus of food security in Ethiopia is the following:
    • Control of population growth.
    • Preventions of HIV/AIDS.
    • Environmental rehabilitation and sustainability.
    • Gender empowerment and water project.
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