Agriculture Sector Food and Nutrition Strategy (ASFNS) 2020 - 2024.

Agriculture Sector Food and Nutrition Strategy (ASFNS) 2020 - 2024 has as goal to achieve a well-nourished population that effectively contributes to national growth and development through sustainable and diverse food system. Food and nutrition activities have been clustered under five objectives and include those that were committed to in the National Multi-sector Nutrition Policy (NMNP), National Agriculture Policy (NAP) and Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS). Under each objective, there are several strategies, and under each strategy, there are several activities. The strategic objectives are as follows: 1) To ensure stable availability of food from all the six food groups (staples, fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, foods from animals, and fats and oils) through sustainable and diversified production. 2) To ensure stable access to safe and nutritious foods. 3) To promote social behavioral change for improved dietary practices. 4) To promote gender integration, and women and community empowerment and participation for improved food and nutrition security. 5) To create and strengthen an enabling environment for effective delivery of food and nutrition programs.
Follow some of the initiatives: Advocate for production of diversified crops, animal foods and underutilized food species; Advocate for scale up of integration of nutrition in agricultural initiatives such as in the Affordable Input Programme (AIP); Advocate for setting up and scaling up of community seed banks; Scale up effective technologies for food storage, food preservation and food processing; Advocate for the use of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) for nutrient-rich soil and diverse, stable food supplies; Develop and disseminate food and nutrition key messages; 1. Sensitize communities on hygienic food handling and preparation, hygiene; Develop guidelines for integration of gender and food and nutrition; Empower women and communities to demand for food and nutrition services; Strengthen institutional capacity to effectively implement food and nutrition interventions at all levels; Strengthen food and nutrition monitoring, evaluation, research, and surveillance system; etc.