Ensure adequate and stable supply of safe and nutritious food through integrated public food management and coordination with multisectoral policies and programmes

Reduce prevalence of food insecurity

Reduce prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES):

The Ministry of Food (MoFood) in collaboration with the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock (MOFL) , Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), Ministry of Social Welfare (MOSW), Ministry of Women and Children Affairs (MOWCA), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MODMR), Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (MOLGRD&C), Ministry of Industries (MOInd),Development Partners and CSOs, commit to ensuring access, availability, affordability and utilization of safe and nutritious food to ensure food security as measured through the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). The commitment will thereby be to reduce moderate and severe food insecurity from 30.5% to 24.2% and 10.2% to 6% respectively by 2025. This will be done by ensuring adequate and stable supply of safe and nutritious food through integrated public food management and coordination with multi-sectoral policies and programmes. The total cost for this will be BDT 58201 crore, which will be tracked through the multi-sectoral financial tracking mechanism.