Even after several decades of greenrevolution, malnutrition continues to be a major developmentchallenge in much of South Asia, and India has a major shareof the malnourished people in the region. For nutritiongoals to be integrated into extension the curricula providedto current and future agricultural extension agents must berevisited. As part of the South Asia Food and NutritionSecurity Initiative (SAFANSI), this paper focuses onapproaches to incorporating such nutrition content into theagricultural extension curriculum. Three state agriculturaluniversities in Tamil Nadu, united Andhra Pradesh, and Biharwere used as case studies for the curriculum review. Throughthese case studies, face-to-face consultations at thenational level down to program implementation at the villagelevel have been developed. These include consultativeworkshops, and a conceptual framework and strategy forincorporating nutrition into extension curriculumdevelopment to improve nutrition outcomes. This strategy,detailed in this report, includes opportunities forcollaboration from the national level to the communitylevel. Specific lessons and follow-up actions are outlinedthat may be useful for other South Asian countries. Thepaper is organized as follows: chapter one givesintroduction. Chapter two reviews current literature onagriculture-nutrition linkages to develop a conceptualframework for integrating nutrition into agriculturalextension programs. Research methods and approaches aregiven in chapter three. Results and discussions are given inchapter four. Lessons from the case studies are presented inchapter five, and chapter six consists of concluding remarks.
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