Enhance the national food systems pathways

Support game changers to food systems

The government of Yemen commits to build and strengthen the capacity of all stakeholders to enhance food systems through:

• Developing and strengthening national and subnational coordination mechanisms for food systems platforms and stakeholder.

• Supporting value chain addition to local agricultural products, such as horticulture, diary, cereals, fisheries, etc.

• Enhancing and adopting nutrition-sensitive interventions to prevent child malnutrition, especially to reduce stunting levels.

• Building capacities of national Codex programmes/structures, by enhancing their participation in Codex Alimentarius meetings globally and addressing their weaknesses or gaps, developing national food standards based on Codex texts as appropriate, having a well-functioning Codex contact point.

• Developing and operationalising a food safety multisectoral action plan in the health sector.

• Conducting a joint multisector needs analysis before, during and after a humanitarian response, which would include wider measures of nutrition need and progress. These measures may include and not be limited to:

o Commitments to measuring minimum dietary diversity for women and girls.

o Measures to assess the impact of seasonal food availability patterns on infant and young child feeding practices and household dietary diversity.

• Strengthening the capacity of national and subnational staff and communities to address all forms of malnutrition.

Progress will be assessed by the government every two years.