On January 18, 2010 the judges reviewed the entries for the Changemakers Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation competition and would like to pass on the following feedback (listed below) for your entry. Thank you for applying and for your hard work in the field. We are excited to archive your entry to serve as a leading solution for the worldwide community of innovators. We wish you continued luck with your innovative, sustainable, and socially impactful initiatives.
All the best, The Changemakers Team
“This is a great idea especially since it uses locally available food. It’s a holistic initiative that looks like it could go a really long way. I would like to learn more about how they plan on creating or increasing a demand for this product. To encourage people to change their traditional diet is not a simple feat, and you have to spend lots of money to create this market. I’d really like to learn about how they plan on addressing this.”
- Changemakers Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation Judges
Thank you for your feedback on our project. We first plan on changing the image of the anchovie from a food typically eaten by the poor or to animals, to one where many of Peru's seafood dishes could have anchovies as a delicious substitute. A parternship with fisheries, upscale restaurants, and local health officials would allow us the opportunity to increase the consumption of anchovies.
In 2006, a World Bank-commissioned evaluation report on Peru’s marine fisheries sector, described the Peruvian industrial fishery for anchoveta as “being overcapacity in the fleet and processing sectors; displaying low efficiency; causing significant losses in rent and high environmental and social costs for the Peruvian State; and generating huge foreign-exchange earnings that benefit a
minimal fraction of the industry.
Processing such large quantities of fish into fishmeal also raises important questions about equity and social justice. Alongside resource richness and private accumulation of
wealth, over half the Peruvian population—some 15 million people—live inconditions of critical poverty, unable to meet their basic needs for food, health, education, clothing or shelter. Meanwhile, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), one in four under-five Peruvian child suffers from malnutrition.
Peru’s recently elected government has declared war on malnutrition, part of which includes the promotion of mass consumption of anchovy. Under SupremeDecree 002-2007, the National Food Assistance programme of the Ministry for
Women’s Affairs and Social Development is now required to allocate not less than 8 per cent of its budget to the purchase of products based on anchoveta and pota.
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On January 18, 2010 the judges reviewed the entries for the Changemakers Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation competition and would like to pass on the following feedback (listed below) for your entry. Thank you for applying and for your hard work in the field. We are excited to archive your entry to serve as a leading solution for the worldwide community of innovators. We wish you continued luck with your innovative, sustainable, and socially impactful initiatives.
All the best, The Changemakers Team
“This is a great idea especially since it uses locally available food. It’s a holistic initiative that looks like it could go a really long way. I would like to learn more about how they plan on creating or increasing a demand for this product. To encourage people to change their traditional diet is not a simple feat, and you have to spend lots of money to create this market. I’d really like to learn about how they plan on addressing this.”
- Changemakers Improved Nutrition: Solutions through Innovation Judges
Thank you for your feedback on our project. We first plan on changing the image of the anchovie from a food typically eaten by the poor or to animals, to one where many of Peru's seafood dishes could have anchovies as a delicious substitute. A parternship with fisheries, upscale restaurants, and local health officials would allow us the opportunity to increase the consumption of anchovies.
In 2006, a World Bank-commissioned evaluation report on Peru’s marine fisheries sector, described the Peruvian industrial fishery for anchoveta as “being overcapacity in the fleet and processing sectors; displaying low efficiency; causing significant losses in rent and high environmental and social costs for the Peruvian State; and generating huge foreign-exchange earnings that benefit a
minimal fraction of the industry.
Processing such large quantities of fish into fishmeal also raises important questions about equity and social justice. Alongside resource richness and private accumulation of
wealth, over half the Peruvian population—some 15 million people—live inconditions of critical poverty, unable to meet their basic needs for food, health, education, clothing or shelter. Meanwhile, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), one in four under-five Peruvian child suffers from malnutrition.
Peru’s recently elected government has declared war on malnutrition, part of which includes the promotion of mass consumption of anchovy. Under SupremeDecree 002-2007, the National Food Assistance programme of the Ministry for
Women’s Affairs and Social Development is now required to allocate not less than 8 per cent of its budget to the purchase of products based on anchoveta and pota.
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