Commitment

Strategic, sustainable, safe, and healthy stocks of basic food commodities

Government / Yemen

January 2025 — December 2030

Description

By 2030, the Government of Yemen, represented by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, commits to maintaining a strategic stock of basic food commodities in a permanent, safe and healthy manner for a minimum period of three months through:

- Monitoring traders to ensure the continuous availability of a strategic stock of essential goods.

- Implementing quality control measures on imported and locally produced food items through regular laboratory testing.

- Reducing wheat imports by 20 percentage points and promoting local wheat production by the same percentage, in coordination with the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Fisheries, along with the private sector.

GNR assessment

Verification status
Verified
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SMARTness index

Details

Global nutrition target(s)
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
Nutrition Action Classification(s)
Policy > Food supply chain
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Linked event(s)
  • 2025 Paris N4G Summit
  • 2025 UN Food Systems Summit/Stocktaking
N4G Summit theme(s)
  • Nutrition, health and social protection
  • Nutrition and transition to sustainable food systems and climate
  • Nutrition and resilience to crisis

Measurement

Key indicator Percent of wheat imported
Measurement plan Collect own data
Value Measurement date
Baseline 80% January 2025
Target 60% December 2030

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