Enhancing food security and nutrition policy assistance
Subtitle: lessons from experience
By: edited by Jean Balié
Contributors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: Policy assistance series -- 5; Policy assistance series -- 5.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9789251063088
Subjects: Food supply; Case studies; Government policy; Nutrition policy; Poverty; Food security
Description: Why is food security and nutrition (FSN) seldom a priority in national development planning? One reason is that strategies to reduce food insecurity and malnutrition are principally seen as a concern of the agricultural sector. Specific food insecurity reduction goals and targets are usually absent from most poverty reduction planning instruments. This book synthesizes lessons learned from five countries - Bhutan, Cambodia, Kenya, Mozambique and United Republic of Tanzania - in providing policy assistance to better integrate FSN concerns in national policies and planning processes. Effective FSN policies should have strong links to social investment, poverty reduction measures, development policies and above all human dignity. These lessons will inform future FSN related policy assistance to member countries striving to eradicate the plight of hunger and malnutrition.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Synthesis of the country case studies. Enhancing food security and nutrition policy assistance : lessons from experience / by Jean Balié, Marco Knowles and Anna Ricoy; title: pt. 2. Country case studies. Providing policy assistance to mainstream food security and nutrition in national policies and strategies. The case of Bhutan / by Marco Knowles; title: The case of Cambodia / by Masa Kato, Kosal Oum and Günther Feiler; title: The case of Kenya / by Mulat Demeke; title: The case of Mozambique / by Frank Mischler; title: The case of Zanzibar / by Susanne Boetekees and Maarten Immink.