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MOTIVATION
In 2001, IFPRI helped prepare a comprehensive report on national food security. This framework examined the “food gap”—that is, the difference between the country’s total food grain requirement (based on normative consumption rates for the entire population) and the total domestic production of food grains—food aid requirements, and the overall availability and accessibility of nutritious foods.
OUTCOMES
- The Food Planning and Monitoring Unit of the Ministry of Food alongside other government agencies developed the draft into its National Food Policy Statement, which was approved by a bipartisan parliamentary committee in 2001.
