Increased access to diversified, organic, nutrient-rich agricultural production

Commitments:

1. Develop and rollout the national nutrition-sensitive agriculture strategy to ensure increased access to diversified, organic, nutrient-rich agricultural produce from 49.4 to 19% of moderate and severe food insecure households.

This commitment aligns with the GNR's emphasis on: integrating nutrition into agriculture systems, addressing malnutrition through multi-sectoral approaches, and setting clear, measurable targets to track progress.

2. Increase local procurement of food for the school feeding programme from 61% to 80% from local smallholder farmers within the localities of the schools using the Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative model thereby by increasing organic local food production from 40% to 70% through the agricultural transformation initiative.

Aligns with the GNR's emphasis on: improving nutrition through school feeding programs, supporting local agriculture and smallholder farmers, and promoting food system transformation and sustainable development goals (SDGs).

3. Develop National Food and Nutrition Policy and a costed plan to guide implementation of nutrition interventions.

GNR's alignment: addressing malnutrition through comprehensive policies, promoting food security and sustainable food systems, and setting clear, measurable targets to track progress.

4. Ensure that District Agricultural Authorities have developed Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Action Plans in all the 25 agricultural districts for effective implementation of nutrition interventions that support community-led, climate-resilient, nutrition-sensitive agricultural practices.

GNR's alignment: promoting nutrition-sensitive agriculture, addressing climate resilience in food systems, and empowering local communities, including women and youth, to improve nutrition and food security.

5. Reduce the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies among the vulnerable groups such as iron deficiency in women of reproductive age from 32.5% to 15% and vitamin A deficiency in children from 8.7% to less than 5% by scaling up for food fortifications initiatives / interventions.

*The last micronutrient study done in Botswana was in 1994 (the Botswana Micronutrient Malnutrition Survey 1994)

GNR's alignment: addressing micronutrient deficiencies as a critical component of malnutrition, scaling up evidence-based interventions, such as food fortification, and

promoting multi-stakeholder collaboration and sustainable funding mechanisms.

6. Reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity among: adults 25 to 64 years from 30.1% to 15.0%, under five children from 7.5% to less than 5%, and adolescents from 8.5% to less than 5%.

Aligns with: global targets to end malnutrition in all its forms, including obesity (SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) and SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being), and GNR Framework: the commitment addresses diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and supports the global goal of halting the rise in obesity by 2030.