Burundi: FAO promotes healthy diets through nutrition education training
Nutrition education plays as a key role in FAO’s first strategic objective to ‘help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition’ and in promoting healthy and sustainable diets for all. In many parts of the world, professional training in nutrition education remains scarce. The need for competent professionals skilled to conduct nutrition education interventions is especially great in countries where undernutrition coexists with growing rates of overnutrition and associated non-communicable diseases. Funded by the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and in collaboration with numerous African universities, and the Dutch University of Wageningen, FAO launched the nutrition education course ENACT – Education for effective Nutrition in Action – in 2012. The course aims to promote long-term improvements in diet, giving special attention to social and environmental contexts, all relevant sectors and the whole food cycle, including production, processing, marketing, and consumption.
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Burundi: FAO promotes healthy diets through nutrition education training
Nutrition education plays as a key role in FAO’s first strategic objective to ‘help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition’ and in promoting healthy and sustainable diets for all. In many parts of the world, professional training in nutrition education remains scarce. The need for competent professionals skilled to conduct nutrition education interventions is especially great in countries where undernutrition coexists with growing rates of overnutrition and associated non-communicable diseases. Funded by the German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and in collaboration with numerous African universities, and the Dutch University of Wageningen, FAO launched the nutrition education course ENACT – Education for effective Nutrition in Action – in 2012. The course aims to promote long-term improvements in diet, giving special attention to social and environmental contexts, all relevant sectors and the whole food cycle, including production, processing, marketing, and consumption.
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