Somaliland Food and Water Security Strategy.

This document lays out the strategic framework to enable Somaliland achieve sustainable food and water security. The objective is to transform Somaliland into a food and water secure country by the year 2030. The goal is to improve the availability of, and access to, adequate and safe food and water in a sustainable manner, especially for rural communities and urban poor, and other vulnerable groups in the country. In order to attain these objectives, the strategy outlines different programmes and areas of intervention, including agriculture development, livestock development, fisheries development, market infrastructure, export development, nutrition and food safety, food safety nets and emergencies, income and employment generation opportunities, emergencies and disasters management, water resources and soil management, capacity building.
The strategy aims to ensure food security through the implementation of specific actions, including: promote sustainable access to adequate nutritious food and other resources at household and national level; ensure that food aid and food imports conform to biosafety and international quality standards; promote consumption of traditional nutritious whole grain sorghum and maize based diets; provide training on appropriate skills and technologies for food preparation, preservation and storage to avoid high food losses in terms of both quantity and quality loss of nutritional value.
With a view to making agriculture and fisheries more productive and sustainable, actions shall be implemented to increase access to agricultural inputs, promote crop protection, promote animal power and farm mechanization, promote environmental and land management for sustainable agriculture development, promote sustainable harvesting of natural food resources.
Special attention is given to the reduction of rural poverty. This includes generation of employment opportunities and facilitating the diversify of the livelihood of youth and women through promotion of alternative income generation activities, value-addition, cottage type industries and agro-processing development.
Concerning the increase of resilience of livelihoods to disasters, the strategy provides for emergencies and disasters management, which encompasses the following: promote a coordinated approach to disaster preparedness and management; ensure allocation of adequate resources to disaster management; improve system of assessing possibilities of a shock; strengthen early warning systems and drought response mechanisms.
In order to effectively plan and implement the Food and Water Security Strategy as well as monitor and evaluate its progress, the Food and Water Security Strategy Office shall be established.