National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) 2014-2018.

The National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) 2014-2018 is organized in four interrelated programmes: 1) Sustainable natural resources management; 2) Agricultural production and productivity improvement; 3) Market access and services development, and; 4) Food and nutrition security and disaster risk management. Key Support Services (KSS) are dealt with separately and have been split into two broad categories: KSS – Knowledge support systems and KSS – Institutional Development. Crosscutting issues are an integral part of the whole NAIP. NAIP implementation emphasizes private sector (corporate private sector) led agricultural growth with government providing the necessary facilitatory enabling environment. Food and nutrition security focuses on a number of issues including: affordable food prices, steady food availability, knowledge and skills in processing and preservation of diverse foods, stability of sources of income and the general education for male and female parents and guardians. This component of the NAIP focuses on the chronically food insecure as well as populations vulnerable to and affected by various emergencies and crises linked to the Millennium Development Goal targets of extreme poverty and hunger.
The overall objective of the NAIP is to facilitate and support the development of a sustainable, dynamic, diversified and a competitive agricultural sector that assures food security at household and national levels and maximizes the sector's contribution to GDP (NAP, 2012). NAIP will contribute towards the attainment of the impact indicators (specified in Table 2). Consequently, NAIP is one multi-faceted entity, with each individual programme contributing towards the overall objective. There are five main impact indicators, some of which are included in Governmental Development Policy Documents, such as the Sixth National Development Plan (SNDP) and other Policy documents of the Ministry of Agriculture (MAL) or the Ministry of Lands Natural Resources, and Environment Protection. In addition, the CAADP Compact also makes reference to continental targets of achieving 6% growth in the Agricultural sector, and allocating at least 10% of public expenditure to Agriculture. Three components will be implemented. Food security will target two strategic objectives, improving food security at national level and reducing household level post harvest losses. Nutrition component will address the nutrition security for households through education as well as promote adequate food utilization at household level. Lastly, Disaster Risk Management will enhance farmers’ protection to disaster as well as strengthen information systems.
The above overall goal will be realized through the implementation of four inter-related programmes and Key Support Services (KSS). The programmes and their respective components are briefly highlighted as follows: 1) Sustainable Natural Resources Management [Land-use Planning, Administration and Management; Ensure efficient water-use and irrigation; Forestry Management; Energy Efficiency Promotion, and; Capture fisheries management]; 2) Agricultural Production and Productivity Improvement [Livestock; Crops; Aquaculture development]; 3) Market Access and Services Development [Institutional market arrangements and performance; Increasing access to rural and market infrastructure; Increasing access to rural finance; Promote value chain integration], and; 4) Food and Nutrition Security and Disaster Risk Management [Food security; Nutrition security; Disaster risk management and mitigation]. The cross-cutting issues have been embedded into all the four NAIP programmes as well as the KSS components. The crosscutting issues include; (i) Gender; (ii) Environment; (iii) Other sector policies & on-going plans; (iv) Decentralization.