Improve food self-sufficiency of vegetables
Description
This commitment will be fulfilled through strengthening the coverage and quality of technical assistance and technology transfer to producers. Interventions will include:
• Fostering resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production and progressively improve soil and land quality.
• Regulating the ownership and possession of rustic and productive land.
• Reengineering the State Bank to serve the agricultural sector.
• Developing agricultural credits with reciprocal guarantees.
• Focusing agricultural package delivery.
• Harvesting water for production.
• Reactivating and modernising irrigation districts.
• Improving agricultural research for the development of nutrient-rich crops.
• Encouraging the production of fresh fruits and vegetables.
• Promoting and implementing urban and peri-urban agriculture.
• Providing technical assistance to women to organise and promote their empowerment and economic autonomy.
• Promoting producers’ association for the commercialisation of their products.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Enhance food availability for food and nutrition security
Description
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GNR assessment
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Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Low birth weight
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Childhood overweight
Anaemia
Adult obesity
Adult diabetes
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Food supply chain
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percentage of self-sufficiency in vegetables |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 46.1% | 2021 |
| Target | 50.2% | November 2029 |
Progress
| Value | Measurement date | Status | |
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| Progress report | 39.6% | June 2023 |
Off Course
The reported progress indicates that the expected level thus far had not yet been achieved and is not expected to be achieved by the end date, but as the end date is not yet reached, it could be still be possible to reach and maintain the target level.
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