Ethiopia - 2016 - Agriculture and Rural Development

Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture Strategy

Agriculture and Natural Resources/ Livestock and Fisheries, Ethiopia

The strategy is designed to be a 5-year strategic plan. It pushes to bridge the gap of the current insensitive nature of the country’s agricultural sector, and its impact on the nutritional status of the populace; It goes ahead to highlight the specific gaps identified to be addressed. It hopes to achieve its set objectives by integrating nutrition into the policies, strategies and programmes of the 3 ministries in the agricultural sector; providing guidance, and coordinating activities charged at attaining set goals. Its key principles include: Community participation and ownership, special consideration to women, youth and children, need and evidence-based program planning and implementation, and innovative and indigenous knowledge-based.

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January 2022

The strategy is designed to be a 5-year strategic plan. It pushes to bridge the gap of the current insensitive nature of the country’s agricultural sector, and its impact on the nutritional status of the populace; It goes ahead to highlight the specific gaps identified to be addressed. It hopes to achieve its set objectives by integrating nutrition into the policies, strategies and programmes of the 3 ministries in the agricultural sector; providing guidance, and coordinating activities charged at attaining set goals. Its key principles include: Community participation and ownership, special consideration to women, youth and children, need and evidence-based program planning and implementation, and innovative and indigenous knowledge-based.

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