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Food Security and Nutrition
Implementation: International
perspectives
Arindam Banerjee
Forum: Food Security and Nutrition Programme
for Kyrgyzstan in Action – in search of an efficient
policy implementation
Bishkek, 06 December 2016
FSN Programme: Concepts and
Implementation
Paradigms of Food and Nutrition Security
-Availability: Linking Agriculture and Trade policies
-Accessibility: Purchasing power and distribution
-Balanced Nutrition: Focusing on absorption and
awareness
-Food Safety: role of scientific knowledge and
regulations
Translating FSN into Action
Policy Development
Programme Financing
Identification and participation of Stakeholders
Capacity Development
Implementation Plan (Road Map)
International Case-study: Malawi
Understanding Malawian Food Security policy:
Malawi Famine, 2002-05
Multi-pronged approach
State interventions
-Boosting production, aiding accessibility
-Trade policy interventions
Malawi: Synergy among Programmes
Malawi Growth and Development Strategy
-MGDS I, 2006-11
-MGDS II, 2011-16
National fertilizer Strategy
-Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP)
Green Belt Initiative
Linking with Economic Recovery Plan and National
Export Strategy
Policy Development and Adaptability,
2005-13
2005: Export Restrictions, Social Safety Nets
2006: FISP, ADMARC and marketing, Export relaxations,
Storage development, Price Interventions
2008: Storage expansion, allowing regulated private grain
trade, Expanding FISP
2009: Credit provision and irrigation, Food aid
distribution
2010: National Water Development programme, smallscale storage, role of National Food Reserve Agency
2011: Devaluation and its implications
Malawi: Progress and Challenges
Increasing Food Availability
Per Capita Food-grains Availability
Year
Food-grains (in
kgs)
2000-1
2005-6
2010-11
2014-5
220.0
110.4
246.2
234.2
Source: based on USDA, foreign Agricultural Service database
Achieving the MDG, onwards to WFS targets
Year
1990-2
2000-2
2014-6
Proportion of
Undernourished (%)
44.7
27.0
20.7
Number of
Undernourished (mn)
4.3
3.1
3.6
Source: The State of Food Insecurity in the World, 2015
International Case Study: India
Large country context: 194.6 mn people
undernourished in 2015
Longer intervention in Food security since 1960s
-Green Revolution Strategy
-Food Management System
Dual pricing policy through food subsidies
Large network of Public Distribution System (PDS)
India: Achievements, Challenges and
Policy changes
Attaining Food self-sufficiency
Accessibility constrained by high inequality
Shifting to a focused targeting of vulnerable
population
Challenges of a targeted PDS
India: Progress and Challenges
Slow progress towards MDG targets (SOFI 2015)
Year
1990-2
2000-2
2014-6
Proportion of
Undernourished (%)
23.7
17.5
15.2
Number of
Undernourished (mn)
210.1
185.5
194.6
Paradox of Food surpluses and Persisting hunger incidence:
>70 million tons of food stocks, high net exports
High food inflation after 2007, reducing domestic demand
Reorienting the strategy towards a right-based approach
-Right to Food Movement after 2004
-National Food Security Act, 2013
Possible lessons for FSNP in Kyrgyzstan
Specific socio-economic, historic and cultural context of the Kyrgyz
economy will have to be considered while drawing lessons from
other experiences.
-Synergies between various policies as reflected in Malawi Growth and
Development Strategy can be explored in Kyrgyzstan.
Striking a balance and complementary relationship between
trade measures, agricultural input incentives,
environmentally sustainable practices, infrastructure
development and food support system for beneficiaries.
-Rights-based intervention like in India.
Developing a legal right framework for combating foodinsecurity in sync with the economic and social conditions.
Thank You