National Agricultural Policy Framework (NAPF) 2019-2030.

The National Agricultural Policy Framework (NAPF) 2019-2030 has as overall goal to create a stable enabling environment and flow of investment that sustainably enhances the capacity of the agricultural sector to anchor national economic growth to upper middle income status by 2030.
In particular the NAPF's provides an evidence-based framework to achieve 8 Policy Objectives and groups the emerging challenges into 9 Pillars identifying sector-specific strategies that will provide more details, priorities, implementing means and enforcement mechanisms for the achievement of further sector-specific strategic objectives.
Policy Pillars are: 1) Food and Nutrition Security and Resilience; 2) Agricultural Knowledge, Technology and Innovation System; 3)Production and supply of Agricultural Inputs; 4) Development of Agricultural Infrastructure; 5) Agricultural Marketing and Trade Development; 6) Agricultural Finance and Credit; 7) Access, Tenure Security nd Land Administration; 8) Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture; 9) Institutional Arrangement for Policy Implementation.
Among the strategic initiatives aimed at improving food and nutrition security and resilienc the Framework lists: Policies and incentives for crops and livestock to be market-friendly, adapted to the needs of smallholders and commercial farmers in their different agro-ecological zones, and deliver public goods and ecosystem services such as production of diverse, nutritious and safe food and sustainable natural resource management; Promote access to finance and livelihood diversification; Promote production practices that enhance diversified crops for diversified diets and improved nutrition (agroecology/ organic, regenerative agriculture) and reduce barriers of entry for smallholder farmers; Develop strategies that support youth employment in agriculture; Ensure gender mainstreaming to ensure support to the roles of men and women in food and nutrition provision at household and community levels.
Agricultural development is promoted through: development of infrastructure; by increasing the safe, sustainable and precise utilisation of productivity-enhancing agricultural inputs; finance and credit for farmers; land security, among others