Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) Strategy 2040.

This Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) Strategy 2040 is a Strategy at the national level, which outlines the strategic vision and goals and sets strategic directions of the RNR sector for the period of 2021-2040. The vision is established as: Sustainable natural resources and self-reliant food systems, contributing to inclusive socio-economic well-being of Bhutanese.
The Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) comprise natural resources that can be replaced or replenished by natural processes or human actions. Plants/crops, animals/livestock, forests and the whole range of biodiversity are renewable natural resources. Some aspects of the environment such as soil quality, assimilative capacity (of water and land) and ecological support systems are called semi-renewable because they are regenerated very slowly on a human time scale. In Bhutan, the RNR sector is defined to comprise both fully-renewable and semi-renewable natural resources. Hence, the agriculture, livestock and forest in Bhutan together comprise Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) sector.
To achieve the RNR sector vision by 2040, the RNR strategic thrust areas are formulated to deliver the four strategic results (i) Self-reliant food system, (ii) Safe and healthy environment, (iii) Inclusive socio-economic well-being and (iv) Competitive agriculture value-chain. In view of the RNR sector oriented to sustainable rural development, poverty alleviation and regulation it is critical to deconstruct the vision and strategic results into strategies from the perspectives of outcome and delivery of RNR mandates. The four perspectives identified for the RNR sector are stakeholders, internal process, technology and innovation, and resources. This helped in translating the vision into strategies and objectives specific to the four areas which is associated with RNR sector. The four perspectives for building strategies were identified as follows: aims to maintain a safe and healthy environment, create the conditions for sustainable development, enable economic self-reliance, and increase private sector engagement. To actualize transformational change in the sector, RNR Strategy 2040 proposes eleven strategies (i) enhance production and quality of RNR commodities, (ii) enhance contribution of RNR sector to national economy, (iii) accelerate agri-business development and expansion, (iv) develop enabling policies for RNR sector, (v) strengthen research, innovation and dissemination, (vi) institute efficient RNR service delivery, (vii) enhance production efficiency of RNR commodities, (viii) promote research and innovation, (ix) diversify sustainable financing for RNR sector development, (x) mainstream sustainable management (conservation and utilization) of natural resources and (xi) enhance and promote resilience to climate change impacts. The strategic themes of RNR Strategy 2040 (environmental sustainability, food and nutrition security, agri-business and employment opportunities, sustainable intensification, rural infrastructures, agricultural technologies, biodiversity access and benefit sharing, and climate change) provides focus areas to bring about transformational change in the RNR sector. In particular, the Strategy calls for concerted efforts towards building a resilient community through more proactive climate action in the sector.