ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW DIRECTOR OF VALID NUTRITION

ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW DIRECTOR OF VALID NUTRITION

We are delighted to announce that Dr Hans-Jürgen Koch will join the Board of Valid Nutrition as a Director.
Hans-Jürgen Koch has had a long and distinguished career initially in academia and then finance. This includes positons as former CEO of Deutsche Bank (Suisse) S.A; the Head of Private Wealth Management International for Deutsche Bank Group as well as the CEO of Wealth Management Europe for BNP PARIBAS SA.

Hans-Jürgen earned his Ph.D. from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. He was both a Fulbright Scholar at The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, and a DAAD-Scholar at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Hans-Jürgen holds dual Swiss and German nationality and currently resides in Zurich. He is married with three daughters.

We strongly believe that Hans-Jürgen’s skills, experience and knowledge are a great addition for Valid Nutrition. I am personally delighted that Hans-Jürgen has agreed to join our Board. I know that he will provide great support to help us continue to advance our mission to drive change in how malnutrition is addressed globally through innovative market and business based solutions.

Steve Collins
Chairman
May 2015

SDC, Hystra and Ashoka conference on Hidden Hunger and Social Business

SDC, Hystra and Ashoka conference on Hidden Hunger and Social Business

Paul Murphy, Valid’s CEO has been invited to address a conference on Hidden Hunger and Social Business. The conference, hosted by The Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation’s (SDC) Employment and Income Network in conjunction with Hystra and Ashoka, takes place in Bern, Switzerland on 18th March 2015 and seeks to show how social innovations in nutrition can offer new solutions to chronic malnutrition.

The event aims to generate a better understanding of social entrepreneurship’s potential in the area of nutrition, looking at how to better exploit synergies between social entrepreneurs, development organisations and traditional companies.

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Smallholder Farmers’ Project: Research Papers

Smallholder Farmers’ Project: Research Papers

Valid Nutrition – The Production of Ready to Use Therapeutic Food in Malawi

The Production of RUTF in Malawi – Part 1, Smallholder famers experience with groundnut production

The Production of RUTF in Malawi – Part 2, Contextual Constraints Faced by Farmers Possible Poilcy Remedies

Impact of Crop Production Strategies on Household Food Security and Welfare in Malawi’s Central Region

Setting Standards for the Development of a Sustainable Groundnut Value Chain in Malawi

A Comparative Analysis of Traditional and Digital Data Collection Methods

Background Issues in Smallholder Farmer Cash Crop Production in Malawi

Presentation of results of our Smallholder Farmers’ Project: UCC 6th March 2015

Presentation of results of our Smallholder Farmers’ Project: UCC 6th March 2015

Valid Nutrition to present results of exciting Smallholder Farmers Project in UCC on 6th March 2015.

We will be presenting the results of our pioneering study on the Effectiveness of a Local Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) Value Chain to Combat Acute Malnutrition in Malawi, at an event in University College Cork (UCC) on 6th March 2015.  Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for State for Development, Trade Promotion and North-South Co-operation, will give the opening address.

What is it all about? This study was funded primarily by Irish Aid and carried out in conjunction with UCC and Bunda College Malawi. We undertook a four year livelihood analysis working with poor smallholder farmers in Malawi, looking at their experiences with groundnut production. Since Valid Nutrition began production of RUTF in Malawi in 2005 we have argued that RUTF should be produced locally (rather than shipped in from overseas suppliers) using locally sourced ingredients.

The objective was that through partners and value chain stakeholders we could support these farmers to produce commercial grade groundnuts, thus creating a reliable source of high quality groundnuts suitable for the local production of RUTF and also giving them a steady income.

Programme for UCC-Valid seminar 6 March 2015

Research papers available here