Abstract:
The overall objective of the NFNS is to reach a position
where access to food (including creating the ability to acquire
it) for all Ethiopians is adequate at all times for an active and
healthy life. In particular, ic shall:
Establish programmes to increass food supply and access such
as pursuing research to increase crop yields, building costeffective
infrastructure for improved transportation and
increasing incentives for farmers;
Expand ncn-agricultural employment and income generating
opportunities and use existing markets more appropriately;
Establish programmes to alleviate current malnutrition by
weaning food production and promotion, food and micronutrients
supplementation., nutrition education, etc.
Maintain an effective national food security system.
2. The immediate scope of the NFNS, however, shall reflect
national development capability. In nutritional terms, it shall
aim to meet the minimum need oT 2000 calories per person per day
by the end of the TYPP. , This is to avoid attempting to do too
much too rapidly with limited resources. More ambitious
nutritional targets could have been set but they would have
entailed such large costs and reductions in resource efficiency as
to make such a strategy non-feasible.
