1. OutputResearch questionsActivities Nutrition, food safety and value addition 1. Improving HH food and nutrition security, particularly the vulnerable groups (e.g. pregnant women, children, sick people, elderly etc,) through: I.Increased availability, access and consumption of diverse nutritious food II.Creating awareness and demand for nutritious and safe food III.Improving capacity in good nutrition practices IV.Mitigation of mycotoxin contamination 1.Which nutrition sensitive agricultural production practices (combination of technologies) can reduce the vulnerability of household to food insecurity and poor nutrition? 2.To what extent can community-based behavioral change communication and community-based behavioral change communication plus agricultural based education of women improved HH food and nutrition status andwhat are the socio-cultural barriers to improved nutritional practices? 3.To what extent the efficacy and carry over effect of Aflasafe strains can reduce the frequency of mycotoxin contamination 4.How does better access to, control and decision making over agricultural production assets (land, labour, credit, inputs, services etc.) impact on household nutritional outcome, particularly of the vulnerable groups? 1.1 Promote nutrition sensitive agricultural production practices (e.g. home garden, backyard poultry etc) by women 1.2 Conduct study on household nutrient intake from diverse food sources and impact on nutritional status of women and children 2.1 Develop, test and disseminate training material on nutrition and behavioral change communication 2.2 Capacity building of women to improve their knowledge on nutrition using behavioral change communication (BCC) approach 3.1 Evaluate the aflasafe product efficacy and its carry over effect on mycotoxin mitigation 3.2 Sensitization and training on mycotoxin management 4.1 Diagnostic study of access to productive assets both at household and community level by women and youth and the impact on household nutrition, and make recommendations for equitable access. 4.2 Facilitate linkages to input service providers and provide technical guidelines for better use to improve household nutrition

2. OutputResearch questionsActivities Nutrition, food safety and value addition 2. Reducing post-harvest loss and improving shelf life through better pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvest practices 1.Which combination of technology packages can reduce pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvest losses and improve product quality and self life? 1.1 Adopt and adapt potential technologies to reduce pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvest losses and contaminations 1.2 Evaluate the cost effectiveness of the existing technology packages for potential dissemination 1.3 Train extension workers and farmers in proven post-harvest loss reducing technologies 3. Improve the market value of agricultural produce through value addition thereby increasing household income and nutritional value 1.What options/technologies or combination of technologies can add value to crop and livestock products to increase their marketability? 1.1 Adapt, evaluate options/technologies or combination of technologies to add value to crop and livestock products 1.2 Promote institutional arrangement to facilitate linkages between smallholder farmers and private and public sectors