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(2016 - 2025) National Action Plan

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Ministry of Agricultural Development Singhadurbar, Kathmandu, Nepal

March 2016

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Rt Hon Prime Minister K P Oli

Hon Dy Prime Minister Chitra Bahadur KC

Hon Minister Haribol Prasad Gajurel

Director-General of FAO José Graziano da Silva

Hon Vice Chair of NPC Yuba Raj Khatiwada

UN Resident Coordinator a.i. Michael Jones

13 March 2016

Dignitaries present in the Launching of the National Action Plan under Zero Hunger Challenge

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Preface

Nepal has undertaken Zero Hunger Challenge (ZHC) to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2025 as a vision that invites all stakeholders for collective actions to create a hunger less society for all people living in the country. It has been accepted as a strategy that would consolidate ongoing poverty and hunger eradication efforts of all the national and international development partners working within the country. It intends to make best use of available resources for both currently targeted and new programmes that are identified as necessary for filling the gaps in eradicating hunger in a sustainable manner.

The Ministry of Agricultural Development launched the Zero Hunger Challenge Initiative on December 19, 2014. This National Action Plan (2016 – 2025) has been formulated as a follow up activity to this. Its preparation has been made possible by active participation of many key stakeholders representing both national and the international development partners. They worked through the High Level Committee, Steering Committee, Technical Committee and Five ZHC Pillars specific Thematic Taskforce Groups. Without their continued effort, this National Action Plan (2016 – 2025) would not have taken its present shape. Therefore, I take this opportunity to thank them all.

In particular, I appreciate valuable contributions made by the staff members of the Ministry of Agricultural Development and other related ministries. The role of civil society organizations and the private sector was equally important. Further support was provided by the United Nations Resident Coordinator, who joined the High Level Committee and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, who represented in the Steering Committee. FAO’s technical support for the preparation of Plan was equally valuable together along with the comments and suggestions provided by other development partners to enrich the content of the National Action Plan. On behalf of the Ministry of Agricultural Development, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all of them.

I hope to receive similar cooperation from all stakeholders in successfully implementing the National Action Plan and ending hunger and malnutrition by 2025 at the latest.

Uttam K. BhattaraiSecretaryMinistry of Agricultural Development

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Abbreviations

ADB Asian Development BankADB/N Agricultural Development Bank of NepalADS Agriculture Development StrategyAEPC Alternative Energy Promotion CentreAEC Agro Enterprise CentreAGDP Agricultural Goss Domestic Product AICL Agricultural Inputs Company LimitedAIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAPEC Asia-Pacific Economic CooperationAPP Agriculture Perspective Plan ARCs Agriculture Research CentresBMI Body Mass IndexCBS Central Bureau of StatisticsCCND Climate Change and Natural DisastersCDO Chief District OfficerCSIDB Cottage and Small Industry BoardCSOs Civil Society OrganizationsCTEVT Council for Technical Education and Vocational TrainingCU5 Children aged Under FiveDaDC Dairy Development CorporationDADO District Agricultural Development OfficeDCSI Department of Cottage and Small IndustriesDDC District Development CommitteeDFTQC Department of Food Technology and Quality ControlDLS Department of Livestock ServicesDLSO District Livestock Services OfficeDoA Department of AgricultureDoC Department of CooperativesDoF Department of ForestDoFish Directorate of FisheryDoHM Department of Hydrology and MeteorologyDoLIDAR Department of Local Infrastructure and Agricultural RoadDoM Department of MechanizationDoR Department of RoadsDPs Development PartnersDRR Disaster Risk ReductionECD Early Childhood DevelopmentFAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsFNCCI Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and IndustriesFNSP Food and Nutrition Security Plan GAFSP Georgia Avenue Family Support Collaborative (Social Services Organization)GAVI A Global Vaccine AllianceGHI Global Hunger Index HIV Human Immunodeficiency VirusHLC High Level CommitteeICN2 Second International Conference on Nutrition

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ICT Information and Communication TechnologyIFAD International Fund for Agricultural DevelopmentIFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute IGAs Income Generating ActivitiesIUCN International Union for Conservation of NatureIYCF Infant and Young Child FeedingMDG Millennium Development GoalMFIs Micro Finance InstitutionsMMR Maternal Mortality RateMoAD Ministry of Agricultural DevelopmentMoC Ministry of CommerceMoCPA Ministry of Cooperatives and Poverty AlleviationMoCTCA Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil AviationMoE Ministry of EducationMoEn Ministry of EnergyMoF Ministry of FinanceMoFALD Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local DevelopmentMoFSC Ministry of Forest and Soil ConservationMoH Ministry of HealthMoI Ministry of IndustryMoIrr Ministry of IrrigationMoLD Ministry of Livestock DevelopmentMoLE Ministry of Labour and EmploymentMoLJPA Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary AffairsMoLRM Ministry of Land Reform and ManagementMoPE Ministry of Population and EnvironmentMoPIT Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and TransportMoS Ministry of SuppliesMoST Ministry of Science and TechnologyMoWCSW Ministry of Women, Children and Social WelfareMoWSS Ministry of Water Supply and SanitationMoYS Ministry of Youth and SportsMSNP Multi-sectoral Nutrition PlanMUS Multiple Use of Water SystemNAP National Action Plan (2016 – 2025)NARC Nepal Agricultural Research CouncilNCDB National Cooperative Development BoardNDDB National Diary Development BoardNeKSAP Nepal Khadya Surakshya Anugaman PranaliNFC Nepal Food CorporationNGO Non-governmental OrganizationNPC National Planning CommissionNRB Nepal Rastra BankNSC Nepal Seed CompanyNSCL National Seed Company LimitedNWC National Women CommissionOFID OPEC Fund for International DevelopmentPO Peasants’ OrganizationPPD Plan Protection DirectoratePRO Pesticide Registration Office

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RMDC Rural Microfinance Development CentreSAARC South Asian Association for Regional CooperationSBCC Social and Behavioural Change CommunicationSC Steering CommitteeSCGs Saving and Credit GroupsSDC Swiss Agency for Development and CooperationSDG Sustainable Development GoalSEAN Seed Entrepreneurs’ Association of NepalSFLRP Smallholder Farmers and Landless Rural Poor SQCC Seed Quality Control CentreSTCL Salt Trading Corporation LimitedSUN Scaling Up NutritionTC Technical CommitteeToT Training of TrainersTRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property RightsTTG Technical/Thematic Taskforce GroupUN United NationsUNDP United Nations Development ProgrammeUNEP United Nations Environment ProgrammeUNESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the PacificUNICEF United Nations Children’s FundUNRC United Nations Resident CoordinatorUSAID United States Agency for International DevelopmentVDC Village Development CommitteeWB World BankWFP World Food ProgrammeWHO World Health OrganizationWUA Water Users’ AssociationZHC Zero Hunger Challenge

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Contents

Preface iii

Abbreviations iv

1.0 Introduction 1

2.0 Global, Regional and National Emphasis on ZHC Initiative 22.1 Global 22.2 Regional 32.3 National 4

3.0 Launching Of ZHC Initaitve for The Preparation of National Action Plan (2016 – 2025) 53.1 Objectives 53.2 Institutional arrangements for formulation 6

4.0 Strategic Priorities and Major Components of NAP 74.1 Strategic Priorities 74.2 Major Components of NAP 12

4.2.1 Pillar 1 - 100 % equitable access to adequate, nutritious and affordable food all year round 12

4.2.2 Pillar 2 - Zero stunted children less than 2 years of age 134.2.3 Pillar 3 - All food systems are sustainable 144.2.4 Pillar 4 - 100% increase in smallholder productivity and income 154.2.5 Pillar 5 - Zero loss or waste of food 15

5.0 Resource Requirements for NAP 25

6.0 Funding Strategy 26

7.0 Implementation Arrangements 27

8.0 Monitoring and Evaluation Framework 27

9.0 Conclusion 29

Annexes 30 Annex - I: Development Partners Supported Projects/Programs Related to

Hunger Reduction and Improved Nutrition 30 Annex - II: Zero Hunger Challenge Initiative 34 Annex - III : Estimation of Output-wise Cost 66 Annex - IV : Priority Framework and Information Systems Complementing

to the Implementation Process 68

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1.0 Introduction

Nepal made its commitment to undertake Zero Hunger Challenge (ZHC) declared by the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development held in Brazil in 2012. It was reemphasized again by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific’s (UNESCAP) 69th Session held in April 2013. These fora emphasized on ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2025 sustainably.

The ZHC initiative is one of the efforts complementing to the regional and national programmes such as Alliance Against Hunger and Malnutrition and the national initiatives such as Multi-Sector Nutrition Plan (MSNP) and Food and Nutrition Security Plan (FNSP) of Action for reducing hunger, poverty and malnutrition. It follows comprehensive outlook about how to end hunger sustainably.

The ZHC initiative recognizes the importance of interconnectedness of food systems with the use of natural resources that impact poverty, hunger and malnutrition. It is a vision and invitation to action uniting all stakeholders working for food security.

A hunger caused by poor access to nutritious food influences malnutrition which is a condition that makes a person’s body not well functioning. It occurs due to the absence of intake of right amount of calories, vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients needed to maintain functioning of the healthy tissues and organs. The young children and pregnant/lactating women are the most vulnerable groups affected by hunger and malnutrition. . It is one of the leading causes of deaths of millions, mostly women and children around the world.

The ZHC aims at eliminating starvation in our lifetimes by scaling-up development efforts with the vision of ending the hunger into reality. It anticipates increased investment in agriculture and nutrition including the rural development activities that contribute to create greater employment opportunities and social protection. It is based on a vision where all people would enjoy their fundamental rights to food to make their livelihoods and food systems resilient with necessary ability to withstand the effects of climate change as they may emerge.

The priority of the ZHC initiative is over the activities related to five strategic Pillars. These Pillars emphasize on addressing the issue of food insecurity and malnutrition and improvement for sustainable agriculture and food systems to overcome hunger and malnutrition. Recognising their interconnected causes for poverty and hunger, they intend to address the underlying factors responsible for poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

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Freeing people from the trap of hunger and malnutrition is a necessity for any country in the context of making proper use of its people’s development potential. In this context, the adoption of ZHC agenda for Nepal is very important given its decade long conflict emerged due to poverty, hunger and social discrimination. By making the country hunger and malnutrition free under the ZHC initiative, Nepal cannot only benefit from making food available and accessible for all but also can maintain peace, prosperity and stability for further development.

2.0 Global, Regional and National Emphasis on ZHC Initiative

2.1 Global

Globally, around 795 million people suffer from hunger. Such situation has led to undernourishment, which is a chronic sign for most of the poor people who are compelled to go to bed hungry. In its recent estimate, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) revealed that out of 7.3 billion people in the world one in nine suffer from undernourishment1.

The UN Secretary - General declared ZHC to end the scourge of starvation and malnutrition as a vision of the “world without hunger”. This call for action envisages eradicating hunger to ensure every person’s rights to adequate food with improved food system that is sustainable as well as resilient.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 enshrined the Rights to Food as an internationally recognized human right. It was followed by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural

1 FAO (2015). The State of Food Insecurity in the World.

For a hungry person, accessing food in the first place is a priority

Source: Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

loss or waste of food

Pillar – V

increase in smallholder productivity and income

Pillar – IV

food systems are sustainable

Pillar – III

stunted children less than 2 years

Pillar – II

access to adequate food all year round

Enabling all people to access the food they need at all times through nutrition-sensitive agriculture and food systems, marketing, decent and productive employment, a social protection floor, targeted safety nets and food assistance ; boosting food supply from local producers; through open, fair and well- functioning markets and trade policies at local, regional and international level, preventing excessive food price volatility.

Ensuring that all farmers, agribusinesses, cooperatives, government ,unions and civil society establish standards for sustainability; verifying their observance and being accountable for them; encouraging and rewarding universal adoption of sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture practices; pursuing cross-sect oral policy coherence (encompassing energy, land use, water and climate); implementing responsible governance of land, fisheries and forests.

Ensuring universal access to nutritious food in the 1000-day window of opportunity between the start of pregnancy and a child’s second birthday, supported by nutrition- sensitive health care, water, sanitation, education and specific nutrition interventions, coupled with initiatives that enable empowerment of women, as encouraged within the Movement for Scaling Up Nutrition.

Reducing rural poverty and improving wellbeing through encouraging decent work, and increasing small-holders ‘income; empowering women, small farmers, fishers, pastoralists, young people, farmer organizations, indigenous people and their communities; supporting agricultural research and innovation; improving land tenure, access to assets and to natural resources, making sure that all investments in agriculture and value chains bare responsible and accountable; developing multidimensional indicators for people’s resilience and wellbeing.

Minimizing food losses during harvesting, storage and transport, and waste of food by retailers and consumers; empowering consumer choice through appropriate labeling; commitments by producers, retailers and consumers within all nations; achieving progress through financial incentives, collective pledges, locally-relevant technologies and changed behavior.

Pillar – I

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Figure 1: Strategic Pillars Emphasized by the ZHC Initiative


Rights (ICESCR), which emphasized on Rights to Adequate Food in 19662. Several other international declarations and conventions have also emphasized on the same thereafter.

The World Food Summit held in 1996 set the target to halve the number of undernourished people by 2015 against the recorded number in 1992. In 2004, the Governing Council of FAO adopted Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Rights to Adequate Food to ensure National Food Security. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) emphasized on the Rights of Vulnerable Groups including children and women.

The ZHC is founded upon a principle that it should not leave hundreds of millions of people suffering from hunger in a world of plenty. This message was re-echoed at the High Level Consultation on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition held in April 2013 in Madrid, Spain. In November 2014 during 2nd International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2), the world leaders committed on addressing malnutrition in all its forms through sustainable food system to make nutritious diet available to all.

In September 2015, a new set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) was introduced as a post-2015 development action agenda to be accomplished by 2030. It included food and nutrition security as a one of the key goals along with its other 16 goals. The Goal No. 2 of this agenda aims to end hunger and ensure access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food for all people all year round.

2.2 Regional

The vast majority of the world’s hungry people (827 million) live in developing countries, mainly in the countries in South Asia, East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Being home to 65.6% of the global hungry population, Asia has the largest number of hungry people across all regions: 552 million or 13.5 percent of its total population. If food security of the Asia-Pacific region is undermined, it will have a significant impact on global food security.3

Among the people suffering from hunger and malnutrition, around 100 million are the under-five children with stunted growth - short for their age. Under-nutrition is one of the primary causes of the death of around 3.5 million children per year in the Region. It is also a cause of one-third of the childhood illnesses. To overcome this situation, ensuring appropriate diets, safe water, hygiene and sanitation; health services, especially for infant and young children as well as pregnant and lactating women, is necessary. This is particularly important for the survival of pregnant and lactating women, and the children under the age of two.

In April 2013, the ZHC initiative was launched by the UN Deputy Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) in Asia and the Pacific Region. It was endorsed by the Prime Ministers and senior officials of the UN Member States who attended this meeting. It emphasized on the implementation of ZHC initiatives with concrete time-bound action plan for creating a hunger-free society in Asia and the Pacific Region by 2025.

The UN Regional Thematic Working Group on Poverty and Hunger, chaired by FAO and co-chaired by UNESCAP and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), developed a Regional Guiding Framework for achieving ZHC initiative. This Framework is the guideline for the UN Member States in formulating and implementing their activities directed towards ending hunger by 2025. It emphasizes multi-stakeholder consultations and coordination in the respective member countries.

2 Interpreted as availability of food in a quantity and quality sufficient to satisfy the dietary needs of individual, free from the adverse substances and which is acceptable within a given culture. This must be accessible to all, implying an obligation to provide special programmes for the vulnerable. This must also ensure an equitable distribution of world food supplies in relation to the need, taking into account the problems of food-importing and food-exporting countries.

3 APEC (2014). Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Ministerial Meeting on Food Security, Beijing, China 19 September 2014 http://apec.org/Groups/Other-Groups/~/link.aspx?_id=5C50BCC9A038470A814B08E8353B3FCA&_z=z


In December 2013, UNESCAP organized a Ministerial Conference to discuss the Guiding Framework among the member countries. This conference passed the Bangkok Declaration highlighting the importance of ZHC initiative from the perspective of regional cooperation with emphasis on priority assistance for the member countries, which are in a special need.

2.3 National

According to the Global Hunger Index (GHI)4 calculated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Nepal ranks 58th among 104 countries in terms of its severity of hunger. Though the country has been able to reduce its severity between 1990 and 2015, it is still at a “serious” condition heading closer to the “moderate” stage.

One in four people in the country live below the national poverty line. Majority of them face food deficit and struggle hard to feed themselves and their family members. Nepal’s vulnerability to high food prices, especially in the remote mountain areas, further aggravates the situation of hunger and malnutrition. Average food price in the mountain and hill regions is almost double than in other locations.

In Nepal, approximately 5 million people are undernourished. The number of stunted children - short for their age declined from 57 percent in 2001 to 41 percent in 2011.5 It is still high above the 30 percent target set by the UN.

Around 70 percent of the Nepalese population work on the land for a living. Agriculture accounts for more than one-third of the country’s economic output. However, the growth of agricultural production has been hardly keeping pace with the country’s population growth. The adversities posed by the climate change effects and natural disasters, on the other hand, are additional challenges to the livelihoods of many rural people in general and poor people in particular. The problem has been further compounded by the devastating earthquake of April 2015. Around 8 million people, almost 30 percent of the entire population of the country representing 39 out of 75 districts, have suffered from its destructive effects.

The employment opportunities in the country are limited to engage all job seeking youths into work. It has posed difficulties among the poor families in earning enough to afford food for their family members.6 Such situation has led towards the vulnerabilities of undernourishment. Around 35 percent people in the country still feel that they do not have access to adequate food.7 Among them, around 17 percent (nearly half) are facing severe shortage. Around 2.5 percent of them are undernourished. They consume below 1,724 kcal per capita.8

Average food energy (calorie per capita) available between 2008 and 2013 in the country was 2830. Of this, around 65 percent was contributed by the cereal sources followed by 35 percent by the non-cereals. Over the years, the maternal under-nutrition in the country has declined from 28.3 percent in 1996 to 18.2 percent in 2011. On the contrary, the cases of over-nutrition is on rise in some families as revealed by the over-nutrition rate of 6.5 percent in 2001 to 13.5 percent in 2011.9

4 The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is composite as it represents four components associated with hunger: (1) undernourishment, (2) wasting, (3) stunting, and (4) under five mortality rate. The composite scale derived from such calculation is used for measuring the severity of hunger such as: < 9.9 = low; 10 – 19.9 = moderate; 20 – 34.9 = serious; 25 – 49.9 = alarming; and 50 > = extremely alarming.

5 NPC (2103). Progress Report on the Millennium Development Goals, National Planning Commission, Kathmandu6 These family members consume below 2,200 kcal per capita.7 MoAD (2013). Food and Nutrition Security Plan, 2013, Ministry of Agricultural Development, Kathmandu. 8 Project Steering Committee Presentation on National Action Plan (2016 – 2025): A Zero Hunger Challenge Initiative, Ministry

of Agricultural Development, 2016. 9 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, 2011, Ministry of Health and Population.

Global Hunger Index – NepalYear GHI1990 44.5 1995 40.32000 36.92005 31.62015 22.2

Source: IFPRI. 2015. Global Hunger Index. 2015. A Peer-Reviewed Publication, October 2015


Majority of women and children in the poor families are badly affected by hunger. These families neither can produce adequate food owing to their poor access to productive resources nor can they afford buying food from the market due to their jobless status. These situations suggest urgent need for enhancing production and increasing income for enhanced food affordability.

Current food shortage encountered by people in the country not only relates to low production but also by the low or no control of production losses in handling the products. These losses occur at pre-harvest, post-harvest and the food consumption chain levels. Viewing this, the Pillar – V of ZHC initiative has emphasized on preventing losses and waste.

Currently, Nepal is ranked as 145th out of 187 countries in terms of the Human Development Index.10 It is gradually progressing towards poverty reduction. It has brought the proportion of poor population down to 23.8 percent towards the end of Millennium Development Goal (MDG). It creates hope for progressing further. The country has potentials for enhancing production, which can make the people food and nutrition secure. The National Action Plan (2016 -2025) attempts to address this issue by blending both on-going efforts under various policies, programmes and project priorities in the country blended with the new gaps identified leading to the eradication of hunger by 2025.

3.0 Launching Of ZHC Initaitve for The Preparation of National Action Plan (2016 – 2025)

Nepal has pledged to progressive reduction of food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition. It is among the few countries recognizing “rights to food” as an essential component enshrined in its National Constitution. This is a significant step in the context of ensuing “food sovereignty” of its people. Accordingly, it emphasizes on access to productive resources (such as land, technological services and capital) for the poor to reduce their poverty with increased employment opportunities. It also intends to promote access to shelter, health and educational services at the same time. All these initiatives are important in the context of contributing to the ZHC targets.

Adopted as a national agenda, the ZHC initiative holds a vision for preparation of the National Action Plan (NAP) 2016 – 2025. To move ahead with this process, the ZHC Initiative was launched on 19 December 2014 by Dr. Narayan Khadka, Senior Minister on behalf of the Prime Minister Mr. Sushil Koirala. Jointly organized by the MoAD along with other line ministries and in collaboration with the UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral development partners, and the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), this event made all the related stakeholders conversant with their expected roles for the formulation and implementation of NAP. Their participation in this event helped to renew their envisaged commitment towards meeting the targets of ending hunger and malnutrition by the year 2025.

The devastating earthquake, on April 25, 2015, however, hampered the momentum of formulation of the NAP.

3.1 Objectives

Major objective of NAP is to end hunger enhancing food and nutrition security of people by maintaining their “rights to food” with respect to the provision of food sovereignty enshrined in the Nepalese Constitution. Its specific objectives are as follows:

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� Provide access to adequate food for meeting the consumption requirements of all people at all times of the year;

� Increase food production and productivity doubling the volume of production and income of the Smallholder Farmers and Landless Rural Poor (SFLRP);

� Control food loss taking place along the food chains extending from the producers to the consumers; � Promote income generating opportunities for the poor to improve food affordability; � Eliminate stunting of children under the age of two years with their improved nutritional status; � Make adequate availability, accessibility and utilization of food possible with by establishing a sustainable

food system; � Protect vulnerable groups with the safety net provisions; and � Improve food governance services for easy access and utilization of food for all.

The formulation of NAP will add value to existing efforts made under various policies, programmes and projects that aim to enhance food and nutrition security. It attempts to fill the gaps by identifying critical areas, which have remained unattended yet but are useful in the context of eradicating poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

3.2 Institutional arrangements for formulation

The formulation of NAP has adopted participatory process ensuring representation of related stakeholders. Three Committees, namely, High Level Committee (HLC), Steering Committee (SC), Technical Committee (TC) and five Pillar-specific Sub-committees called as Thematic /Technical Taskforce Groups) were formed as follows:

Each Committee and Sub-committee was entrusted with specific tasks. The HLC was responsible for providing overall policy guidance ensuring inter-ministerial coordination, while the SC was entrusted with the responsibility of providing necessary direction for the priorities to be set in designing the NAP and overseeing periodic progress of formulation. Likewise, the TC was responsible for reviewing and suggesting outcomes, outputs and activities suitable for each Pillar-specific tasks undertaken by the Sub-committee (i.e. the Thematic/technical Taskforce Group). To facilitate coordination among various roles undertaken by

Figure 2: Institutional Arrangement for the Formulation of NAP (2016-2025)

High Level Committee

Steering Committee Technical Committee

Pillar–V Taskforce Group

Pillar–III Taskforce Group

Pillar–I Taskforce Group

Launching and Execution of National ActionPlan (2016 – 2025)

Pillar–IV Taskforce Group

Pillar–II Taskforce Group


different committees and subcommittees, respective Terms of Reference (ToR), approved by the HLC upon endorsement of the SC, was provided.

The Minister of MoAD chaired the HLC, while the Secretary of the Ministry worked as Member-Secretary of Committee. This Member-secretary also chaired the SC, where the Joint-Secretary who was the Chairperson of TC worked as its Member-Secretary. The Sub-committee (Thematic/Technical Taskforce Groups) were chaired by the Under Secretaries of the Ministries concerned. The United Nations Resident Coordinator (UNRC) represented as member of the HLC, while the Country Director of FAO represented as member of the SC. Other national and international development partners were provided with opportunity to provide comments and suggestions during the consultative process and also on the draft version of the NAP.

4.0 Strategic Priorities and Major Components of NAP

Nepal is one among the few countries in the world, incorporating “food sovereignty” in its Constitution as a fundamental right of her citizens. Commensurate with this, the first and foremost priority of the NAP has remained to ensure adequate access and proper utilization of food by all people sustainably in order to fulfil their basic nutritional requirements leading to a good health.

Nepal has developed an Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS). It is a perspective agriculture development plan guiding Nepal’s agricultural development activities for the next 20 years (2015 – 2035). It is an umbrella programme for food and nutrition security interventions. Its priorities are linked to MSNP and other poverty reduction frameworks related to food production, equitable distribution and effective utilization of food to maintain a good nutritional status of the population with special focus on the most vulnerable groups.

By adopting coherent agenda in line with the prevailing policies and strategies, the NAP highlights the importance of agricultural development for improved food security and nutritional status of the population. It not only looks into the critical areas of production but also necessary support system examining the currently less attended or even unattended subject areas that could accelerate the process of eradicating hunger, poverty and malnutrition. The NAP aims at nutrition sensitive agriculture interventions throughout the value chains along with addressing issues related to food quality, safety and nutrition education in conjunction with the ongoing nutrition focused interventions.

The NAP covers adoption of both short and long-term solutions to achieve sustainable as well as inclusive food system that contributes to improve the food and nutrition security situation of people. It proposes establishment of a strong monitoring and evaluation system that contributes to assess periodic progress of delivered services looking at the advancement towards meeting the ultimate goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition. With such provision included in the plan, it expects to ensure accountability of related institutional functionaries towards improved food and nutrition security. To facilitate this process, it recommends establishment of key indicators based baseline information reflecting upon different stages of the implemented activities and their results.

4.1 Strategic Priorities

The Right to Food is a priority for NAP. It aims to achieve “food for all” to create a situation of zero hunger by 2025. In order to reach this stage, it gives priority for enhanced food production and productivity, production diversification, increase of investment in agriculture, physical infrastructure development, making local food supply safe and nutritious, agri-business development with market access with special focus to the vulnerable groups, improved processing, storage and preservation, increased employment opportunities, making agricultural occupation attractive for youths, support for SFLRP with improved access to productive resources, promotion of supportive role of the cooperatives, safety net support for the vulnerable groups, and improved food governance as its strategic priorities. Following figure illustrates their connectivity:


Sustainable food production with diversity: Food production activities will be improved in a sustainable manner by diversifying the crops with the application of improved seeds. For this purpose, the farmers will be trained for the replacement of seed. They will also be encouraged for the production of improved seeds locally and for the establishment and management of community seed banks.

The staple food consumption pattern of the country increasingly reveals that most of the consumers prefer to take rice as their main staple food. Such preference exist even in the food deficit areas, where rice cultivation is not suitable. It has led to increased dependency on imported rice in these areas, while undermining the production potential and the nutritional importance of the indigenous crops (e.g. millets, oats, barley etc.). The NAP intends to break such perspective with increased support for inputs - seeds, fertilizers and loans in order to enable the farm families to cultivate the indigenous staple food crops and make them aware on the nutritional importance of these indigenous sources of staple food crops.

In order to lead towards sustainability of the production process, the farmers will be familiarized with the potentials of diversifying crops. They will also be made aware about the practices that can contribute to overcome the adverse effects of climate change. They will be trained for selecting suitable crops that can respond to the changing climatic conditions (i.e. the selection of climate smart crops, which deserves the potential for comparative advantage in the food market). Priority will be assigned for diversification as per the technical potential as well as economic viability for growing.

Increased investment of resources and their optimum utilization: Under-investment in agriculture has been considered one of the reasons for low application of quality inputs and advanced technologies. It affects the level of production and productivity. To overcome such situation there is a demand for increased budgetary allocation by the government in agriculture.11 The NAP suggests making an attempt to promote investment with capital formation support extended to the food insecure farmers with optimum utilization of available resources.

11 Preferably 5-10 percent of the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (AGDP).

Figure 3: Strategic Priorities of NAP


The government source alone will not be sufficient to meet increasing demand for investment in agriculture. For this, creating favourable climate for the mobilization of private and cooperative sector investments with necessary incentives is essential. The mobilization of cooperative fund is particularly important for the smallholder producers who form the majority of the farm households in the country. They have the prospect for making collective efforts for production and marketing of crops. Therefore, they can be targeted as priority groups to accomplish these.

Physical infrastructure development: Poor accesses to basic infrastructure facilities are one of the reasons for low production, productivity and marketability of both inputs as well as outputs at a reasonable price. Such problems are more serious in the case of remote hills and mountains where accessing market is often difficult. They lead to higher transaction cost and also pose difficulties in meeting the food requirements locally.

The areas having difficult physical terrains often keep the people of those areas in an isolated condition. In such situation, they cannot play much with their IGAs without access to basic infrastructures. In order to break such barrier, the NAP emphasizes on the promotion of irrigation facilities, local storage provisions, transportation services, processing facilities for the agro-value chains, and establishment of the marketing infrastructures. As these facilities are also emphasized under the ADS, their accelerated achievements would contribute to encourage production as a means striking balance between the seasonal demand and supply of food between the food surplus and deficit areas.

Promotion of the role of cooperatives for production and marketing support: Nepal has more than 50,000 cooperatives operating across the country. Around 50 percent of them are women cooperatives. These cooperatives are playing significant role in supporting farmers in the production and marketing of inputs as well as outputs. As they are locally based, they have comparative advantage to provide direct services. The NAP will promote their supportive roles in the production and marketing processes as well as credit services.

Agricultural occupation made attractive for youths: The increasing migration trend for foreign employment reveals that engagement in agriculture has become a second choice for many youths in the recent years. It has subsequently increased feminization of agriculture, as most of the migrants are male. Such migration is also a reason for shortage of agricultural labour for major farm operations. To overcome such situation, the NAP suggests two-pronged strategies. On the one hand, it suggests making agricultural engagements more attractive for youths with the provisions for incentives covered with subsidized inputs, market linkage development, and the minimum support price for the products. On the other, it also prioritizes application of labour saving technology by promoting micro-mechanization.

Smallholders supported with access to productive resources: The smallholder farmers and landless rural poor are unable to achieve sufficient production in the absence of adequate productive resources. It not only prevents them from production shortage but also from poor food affordability. Realizing this, the NAP emphasizes on increased access of SFLRP to land under the fixed term contractual arrangements wherever possible. It also suggests provision of institutional support services for seeds, fertilizers and irrigation water including the soft loans to promote their self-employed activities.

Protection of vulnerabilities against the natural disaster shocks: The geographic diversity of Nepal invites natural disaster of one kind or the other at various places. When the scale of disaster is small, affecting only some of the vulnerable groups, it does not often trigger full-scale humanitarian response. However, it creates adverse effects on the affected families. Therefore, risk-proofing and preparedness against the possible shocks focusing on the vulnerable groups will remain a priority. Attempts will be made to empower local communities towards managing small-scale disaster shocks, their prevention with early warning systems and improved preparedness. It also entails focus on the risk reduction efforts implanting the Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) activities into the development initiatives with enhanced accountability of the service providers towards the vulnerable groups.


Agri-business development with market access to vulnerable groups: Stimulating agri-business with emphasis on related value chains can contribute to engage greater number of poor in income earning opportunities. Value chain can also be one of the ways of preserving food for a longer term to meet seasonal food shortage. It can also contribute to store and dispose-off products in the market minimizing the losses. Viewing these, the NAP proposes value addition, access to price information, and capacity building of the farmer associations as the way of promoting of agri-business. It emphasizes increased participation of SFLRP in these activities. It also plans for necessary institutional support from the line agencies, cooperatives and the farmers’ associations for their enterprise development.

Food affordability improved with increased employment opportunities: Nepalese economy is predominantly agrarian. It is a source for major employment opportunities for many youths who are unemployed. It is also one of the potential means for poverty reduction and improved food security. The contribution of this sector is highly important for the marginalized groups of people living in the remote areas. In order to ensure their food security, mainstreaming their meaningful engagement in the economic activities needs special attention. In view of this, the NAP emphasizes on generation of new employment opportunities by implementing in the farm and off-farm activities with value chain and value addition approach. Similarly, it has also provisioned for the vocational skills training to mobilize and link non-farm sector with farming sector. Such strategy is expected to decrease the trend of outmigration of youths seeking jobs in the foreign markets as an unskilled labour. Acquiring vocational skills will be important for most of the first time job seekers who form the majority of unemployed youths who are aged between 16 – 24 years.

Making safe and nutritious food available at local level: Average food production data of 2011/2012 to 2013/2014 in Nepal revealed that 32 out of 75 districts in the country encounter food shortage. In view of this, localization of production enhancing capacities in these deficit areas will be prioritized. Attempts will be made to enhance production in the pocket areas surrounding the core areas of hunger. Production incentives will be channelled for the identified pocket areas attempting to localize the supply to meet the demand.

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The NAP emphasizes on diversifying the food production system covering the promotion of both improved and indigenous crop varieties and the animal breeds to the extent they are technically feasible and financially viable. Efforts will be made to make the food systems locally sustainable. Mapping of major food crop domains suitable to their location specific potentials will be undertaken to target selective agricultural production and productivity interventions supported with the supply of quality inputs and necessary market development providing choice for the consumers to select the items of their preference.

In order to ensure all season availability of inputs and marketable outputs, it has proposed to establish godowns for seeds, fertilizers and food grains in various locations.

Women empowerment: Women, in their capacity, are agricultural producers, food managers and the care takers of their children. They nourish their children by breastfeeding. They are the ones who establish household level food and nutrition norms. Considering these roles, the NAP proposes empowerment of women as value chain actors as well as the change agent for introducing improved food and nutritional behaviour at the household level. Accordingly, related activities are proposed for their access to productive resources for the promotion of Income Generating Activities (IGAs), extension services, information sharing, and the adoption of labour as well as time saving technologies. The NAP has emphasized on equal opportunity for women in acquiring skills and earning incomes in addition to the care they need for their reproductive rights and safe delivery.

Processing, storage and preservation facilities for food improved: The NAP highlights the promotion of home and community based food processing, storage and preservation activities. It plans to engage women as the main actors of these activities and plans to build their capacity for both skills and enterprise development. These interventions will contribute to preserve food for a longer time without much loss, which ultimately can contribute to overcome seasonal food shortages.

Nutrition promotion and education: The NAP has realized that nutrition education integrated with agricultural and food production system has a huge potential to enhance the impact of production and income for improved dietary practices thereby to accomplish improved nutritional outcomes. It suggests promotion of production diversity with knowledge enhanced about safer food and eventually improving consumption of diverse foods, especially among the vulnerable populations.

Improved food governance: Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the UN, mentioned that good governance is one of the important factors in eradicating poverty and promoting development. Maintaining institutional accountability in delivering the public services is important in this regard. The NAP emphasizes application of improved governance norms in the public food distribution system. It also highlights the need of making the pricing process transparent. The distributions should be made inclusive in view of the needs to be addressed for the vulnerable groups. The service delivery actors should be made accountable towards these. It should contribute to safeguard the poor with equitable access to all kinds of institutional services be it in the form of production support or the distribution of food. It entails effective engagement of the stakeholders in identifying disadvantaged target groups with priority to ensure their food security.

Safety net support for the vulnerable groups: Poor people affected by food shortage will not be able to access employment and income earning opportunities immediately. Therefore, they need protection for access to food till the jobs are available for them in the labour market. For such transition period, the NAP plans for social safety net support provision for the vulnerable groups (i.e. the group which encounters food shortage of more than 3 months in a year).

Such group will not only obtain support for food but also micro-nutrient rich diet depending upon the food security situation and nutritional status of these groups. The women and children should be targeted under such support as it can contribute to reduce the number of stunted children below five years.


Safety net provision is also required to protect risk prone farmers against the new ventures they will be taking. They should be ensured against the risk of crop failure or livestock death including the risk of market price volatilities. The NAP emphasizes on promoting such insurance provisions to transform the farmers from the adoption of traditional agriculture to modern agricultural system. Accordingly, it plans to promote group farming by involving SFLRP so that they can enhance their capacity of taking risks by sharing their knowledge within their group, while thinning the risk burden, if any. It requires further expansion of prevailing crop and livestock insurance support being provided by the government with 75 percent subsidy on the annual premium to be paid.

The NAP also emphasizes on the consumption of nutrient dense foods by promoting best kitchen practices for the poor families. These families will be trained in improved food preparation and cooking practices together with the demonstration of improved recipes. The institutions like Ama Samuha (mothers’ groups) and other women groups will be mobilized to facilitate this process.

4.2 Major Components of NAP

The components of the NAP are developed for five Pillars of ZHC initiative. The outcomes, outputs and activities proposed for interventions through the Plan are identified accordingly.

Figure 4: Linkage across the Intervention Pillars

4.2.1 Pillar 1 - 100 % equitable access to adequate, nutritious and affordable food all year round

This Pillar deals with creation of enabling environment for adequate access to affordable as well as nutritious food. It emphasizes on enhancing production with increased on-farm, off-farm and non-farm IGAs, in general, and targeted to the vulnerable groups, in particular. The ultimate objective of such emphasis is to make “fundamental rights to food” operational.

100% equitable access to adequate nutritious and affordable food all year round;

Zero stunted children less than 2 years of age

100% Increase in smallholder productivity and income

Zero Hunger

2025

Interventions Related to ZHC

Zero loss or waste of food

All food systems are sustainable


The Pillar-I suggests design of suitable policy instruments for effective utilization of land. Stabilization of food prices, sharing of market information, access to stabilized market, maintenance of food reserves for the emergencies, social protection for vulnerable groups and safety net provision to cover the needs of poor are its priorities.

All activities covered under this Pillar emphasize on sensitivity towards people who suffer from poverty, hunger and malnutrition. In this respect, it aims to address the needs of most vulnerable groups (e.g. female headed households, adolescent girls, pregnant/lactating women, children, elderly persons, households having impaired person with disability, HIVAIDS affected persons, victims of natural disasters and the remote area dwellers encountering food shortage). Creating awareness about their rights to food and nutrition security and also introducing pro-poor food entitlements for the vulnerable groups through Food Stamp service in emergencies are given priority.

This Pillar intends to reduce unfavourable effects of food price volatilities by enhancing access of producers and consumers with well-functioning markets. In particular, the poor and vulnerable people, who are often hard hit by erratic changes in their capacity to afford food, are proposed to protect their shortages by introducing public distribution system with emergency food stocks. Considering this need, the Pillar suggests construction of storage facilities for agricultural inputs as well as outputs at the accessible market locations.

It emphasizes on the generation of new employment opportunities of all kinds (farm, off-farm and non-farm) to enhance affordability. Those who are unable to take advantage of enhanced production process straight away, due to their poor access to productive resources, will be supported with safety net provisions for a transitional period of five years (i.e. till they can stand on their own feet).

The Pillar highlights on the importance of price monitoring mechanism for major inputs and outputs. Information on the monitored pricing rates will be disseminated among the producers, traders and consumers preventing them from the effects of uncontrolled price volatilities at different occasions.

4.2.2 Pillar 2 – Zero stunted children less than 2 years of age

This Pillar emphasizes on reduction of stunting through combined efforts of nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions targeting to the first 1000-days of life i.e. between the start of pregnancy and a child’s second birthday, which is considered as a window of opportunity for various nutrition interventions. While the problem of malnutrition is multi-dimensional and calls for multi-sectoral coordinated approach, the NAP stresses the promotion of food-based interventions for universal access to nutritious food for all. This should be complemented by interventions from health, care, water, sanitation, hygiene, education and social protection that enhance the food and nutrition security of the vulnerable population.

Complementing the national policies viz. MSNP and FNSP and other sectoral plans and policies such as Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Strategy, Maternal Nutrition Strategy, Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Hygiene Master Plan, the ZHC Plan of Action advocates and emphasises on scaling up of nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions and food based approach to improved nutrition.

Preventing the risk against malnutrition through improved dietary intakes has remained one of the priorities under this Pillar. It suggests optimal biological utilization of food highlighting the importance of preventing food, water and vector borne diseases. It emphasizes on the promotion of access to adequate macro- and micro-nutrient rich foods for all with special focus to the pregnant and lactating mothers, children under the age of two and adolescent girls.

The focus of NAP is on addressing the malnutrition in all its forms- under-nutrition, over-nutrition and micro-nutrient deficiencies, however, the key focus is on reduction of stunting among the children of age two year and below. The NAP stresses the strengthening systems for ensuring availability and accessibility


of safe and nutritious foods for improved. It also proposes incorporation of nutrition education to empower and sensitize the consumer to make healthy food choices, consumption of micro-nutrient rich vegetables, fruits and animal source foods.

Promoting healthy eating habit and diversification of diets with utilization of nutrition-dense food has remained its priority suggesting the target groups for consuming different protein rich food items such as animal legumes and pulses, especially by the adolescent girls, mothers and children.

This Pillar highlights the importance of improving maternal, IYCF practices with routine intake of micronutrient supplements, iodized salt and fortified foods. Using safe drinking water and improving sanitation facilities to control possible infections are proposed as measures preventing possible water borne diseases.

Changing the nutrition behaviour of family members is essential for improvement in the nutrition status of the target groups. Emphasis has been given for making the mothers and care takers aware on the food taboos and their harmful effects on the nutrition and health of mothers and their children by means of education on nutrition, health, care and sanitation. Educating the community members in adopting improved food and nutritional behaviours and practices has remained its priority to sustain improved practices introduced. This Pillar emphasizes on building capacity of the front line service providers to facilitate delivery of appropriate messages to the target audience.

The NAP has proposed interventions highlighting how other factors may impact the health and well-being of women and how programming across the sectors, particularly health, would be desirable. As the migration of men is forcing women more to go back to their work in the field right after delivery instead of the recommended resting period, it has affected increase of uterine prolapse among large number of women. The NAP aims at controlling such adverse effects through both awareness raising and health related interventions.

4.2.3 Pillar 3 – All food systems are sustainable

This Pillar emphasizes on ensuring sustainable agriculture system for food and nutrition security. It aims to make the agriculture production process sustainable through improved soil fertility, efficient use of water resources, conservation of biodiversity, coping with natural disasters and adaptation to adverse effects of climate change. It also highlights on the enhanced access to quality and adequate inputs in time so as to increase land and labour productivity and food production to make the food systems sustainable by improving environmental, economic and social well-being of communities.

Sustainable food system prioritises on making nutritious food items adequately available in the local market and improving affordability of people through creation of new jobs across the agricultural value chains. However, increase in income is addressed by the Pillar IV.

Protection of tenure of individuals and communities on land, fisheries and forests is important for sustainable food system of local communities. Adoption of women friendly technologies reduces drudgery freeing their time for more productive activities.

Coping with natural disasters and adapting to climate change and variability through adoption of climate smart crops can help to achieve sustainable food system. To facilitate this process, priority is needed on research and extension services related to climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture practices. In this respect, increased involvement of National Agricultural Research Council (NARC) and academia will be emphasized.

Ensuring coherence among the roles played by different organizations (e.g. agriculture, industry, trade, energy, land reform, water resources and environment) has also been considered essential for the sustainable food system. Accordingly, developing complementarities among the policies and programmes of related organizations are essential for designing and achieving agriculture development and sustainable food system.


4.2.4 Pillar 4 – 100% increase in smallholder productivity and income

Around 53 percent of the farmers in Nepal are smallholders. This Pillar emphasizes on the contribution of these farmers in achieving ZHC with enhanced production and productivity. Against the limited availability of agricultural land and even shrinkages observed due to increased population as well as urbanization, this Pillar entails to overcome ZHC with enhanced productivity than area expansion. It requires farmers to achieve greater production targets per unit of land. Given that the smallholder farmers are not only producers but also the target group beneficiaries of the production process, enhancing participation of these target groups on all the four dimensions of food security (i.e. availability, accessibility, utilization and stability) is emphasized. It not only emphasizes their role in increased production, productivity and income but also in the intake of sufficient nutritious food to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.

The NAP emphasizes on the increase in the productivity of all kinds of crops including cereals (rice, maize, wheat, millets etc.), other staple crops (e.g. potatoes), and the fruits and vegetables. It aims to increase livestock production as well. For these improvements, the Pillar expects support for enhanced technologies, timely access to inputs (e.g. seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, planting materials, poultry chicks, improved animals, fingerlings etc.) and the facilities for marketing of outputs. Hoping to capture ecological potential of different areas, the NAP suggests cultivation of both improved and indigenous crops that are found more adaptable to pest, drought and flood related risks.

The Pillar emphasizes water use efficiency in increasing production. Accordingly, it emphasizes on creation of both physical infrastructure for irrigation and improved water management practice at the same time.

The priority laid by this Pillar to enhance production is to meet household level food requirement first. It will then be followed by marketing of surplus at the second place to earn cash incomes. Viewing this, the production system suggested emphasizes to enhance efficiency as well as effectiveness in meeting their consumption requirements as well as in increasing household incomes. In order to facilitate this process, suitable linkage will be developed among the producers, traders and consumers.

Increased access to productive resources (especially land and credit) will be provided for SFLRP. They will be encouraged to engage themselves in the home-based agro-processing industries. Such support will be extended in the remote areas having potentials for running the market-friendly value chains.

4.2.5 Pillar 5 – Zero loss or waste of food

Estimated figures of FAO, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and World Food Programme (WFP) reveal around 45 percent global loss of fruits and vegetables and nearly 30 percent loss of cereals due to poor post-harvest practices. Further to this, the food loss also occurs during consumption, where left over food is thrown to garbage. It happens due to their inadequate knowledge about the food preservation techniques. These losses substantially reduce food availability and also decrease earnings of the producers. They also reduce affordability among the consumers who encounter high demand pushed procurement of food grains against the short supplies that contributes to price rise. In the face of increasing food shortage and decreasing affordability, controlling these losses is important. Such control can enhance supply of additional food for those who lack access.

The food loss encountered by the country occurs both at the pre-harvest12 and post-harvest stages. Preventing such loss is still a low priority in the country. To overcome such situation, this Pillar emphasizes on loss control at all levels extending from production to the consumption levels encompassing harvest, storage, transport, processing, retailing and consumption stages.

12 Pre-harvest loss occurred due to late harvest of earlier maturing grains in a mixed variety cultivation.


The Pillar suggests making all players of the food system responsible to adopt loss or waste preventing technologies or habits based on the identification of major loss points. It suggests enhancing knowledge and skills for the adoption of loss reduction measures in the various stages of food chain.

The NAP emphasizes on the establishment of sound infrastructural base (e.g. transport, cool and dry storage facilities, energy, preservation equipment, and packing-house). It also emphasizes promotion of the application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to facilitate the management of loss at respective supply points. In this regard, promoting knowledge management practices based on regular monitoring of implemented activities has been suggested.

Various outcomes, outputs and activities are proposed under the above mentioned five Pillars. These proposals are based on the review of priority programmes and projects currently implemented by the MoAD in its own initiative and under the support of various development partners. These projects and programmes are related to food security, poverty reduction, reduction of hunger and nutrition security (see Annex – I for further details). Gaps were identified based on these reviews and the outcomes, outputs and activities were proposed under each Pillar as follows:


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omot

e wom

en-fr

iend

ly ag

ricul

tura

l tec

hnol

ogie

s and

pra

ctic

esA

ctiv

ity 1

.1.6

.4:

Stre

ngth

en ag

ro-g

ende

r dat

abas

e for

pla

nnin

g an

d im

plem

enta

tion

of ag

ricul

tura

l act

iviti

esA

ctiv

ity 1

.1.6

.5:

Incr

ease

land

regi

stra

tion

on w

omen

’s na

me

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.6

: In

crea

se o

utre

ach

of ex

tens

ion

serv

ices

to w

omen

hea

ded

hous

ehol

ds

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.1

: Id

entif

y poc

ket a

reas

for t

he sp

ecia

lized

crop

s bas

ed o

n th

eir c

ompa

rativ

e adv

anta

geA

ctiv

ity 1

.1.7

.2:

One

-vill

age-

one

-pro

duct

(OVO

P)A

ctiv

ity 1

.1.7

.3:

One

dist

rict o

ne p

rodu

ct (O

DO

P)A

ctiv

ity 1

.1.7

.4:

Revi

ve cu

ltiva

tion

of n

egle

cted

but

nut

ritiv

e tra

ditio

nal/i

ndig

enou

s cro

ps in

vie

w o

f the

ir ric

h

nutr

itiou

s val

ues

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.5

: Pr

omot

e gen

etic

cons

erva

tion

prac

tices

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.1

: In

crea

se ac

cess

to em

ploy

men

t opp

ortu

nitie

s by d

iver

sifyi

ng p

rodu

ctiv

e eng

agem

ents

in th

e far

m,

off

-farm

and

non-

farm

sect

ors

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.2

: Pr

omot

e mar

ket o

rient

atio

n am

ong

the f

arm

ers f

or co

mm

erci

aliz

atio

n of

agric

ultu

reA

ctiv

ity 1

.2.1

.3:

Min

imiz

e pric

e vol

atili

ty ri

sks

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.4

: Co

ntro

l hoa

rdin

g (a

rtifi

cial

supp

ly g

ap) o

f pro

duct

s in

the m

arke

tA

ctiv

ity 1

.2.1

.5:

Iden

tify t

rade

bar

riers

and

avoi

d th

e res

tric

tions

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.6

: En

sure

equa

l wag

e rat

e for

wom

en ag

ricul

tura

l wor

kers

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.7

: Pr

omot

e sel

f-em

ploy

men

t foc

used

agro

-bas

ed en

terp

rises

in g

roup

sA

ctiv

ity 1

.2.1

.8:

Impl

emen

t 100

-day

empl

oym

ent g

uara

ntee

sche

me f

or p

eopl

e liv

ing

in d

ifficu

lt co

nditi

ons

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.1

: Pr

ovid

e tra

nspo

rtat

ion

subs

idy f

or th

e sup

ply o

f foo

d gr

ains

to fo

od d

efici

t dist

ricts

A

ctiv

ity 1

.2.2

.2:

Mai

ntai

n bu

ffer s

tock

as p

repa

redn

ess f

or em

erge

ncy r

espo

nse

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.3

: O

pen

new

food

gra

in o

utle

ts to

ensu

re re

gula

r sup

ply i

n th

e defi

cit a

reas

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.4

: M

aint

ain

buffe

r sto

ck o

f see

dA

ctiv

ity 1

.2.2

.5:

Act

ivat

e SA

ARC

Foo

d Ba

nk

Out

put -

1.2

.2Fo

od d

istrib

utio

n sy

stem

st

reng

then

ed to

ensu

re

avai

labi

lity

Out

put -

1.2

.1H

ouse

hold

inco

mes

of

the p

oor e

nhan

ced

for

food

affor

dabi

lity

Out

put -

1.1

.7Cu

ltiva

tion

of cr

ops

prom

oted

by t

heir

suita

bilit

y to

diffe

rent

ec

olog

ical

cond

ition

s

Out

put -

1.1

.6W

omen

’s ro

le in

pr

oduc

tive a

ctiv

ities

en

hanc

ed

Out

put -

1.1

.5Li

nkag

e bet

wee

n th

e re

sear

ch an

d ex

tens

ion

serv

ices

stre

ngth

ened

Out

com

e - 1

.1 (C

ontd

. ..2

)N

epal

’s Co

nstit

utio

nal

Righ

ts to

Foo

d So

vere

ignt

y m

ater

ializ

ed w

ith

incr

ease

d ac

cess

of

all p

eopl

e to

food

Out

com

e - 1

.2A

dequ

ate a

fford

able

nu

triti

ous f

ood

avai

labl

e fo

r equ

itabl

e util

izat

ion


Pilla

r – II

: Zer

o St

unte

d C

hild

ren

Less

Than

2 Y

ears

Of A

ge

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.1

: Tr

ain

the f

ront

line a

gric

ultu

re ex

tens

ion

staff

on

nutr

ition

sens

itive

agric

ultu

re in

terv

entio

ns

(e

.g. f

or p

ract

icin

g nu

triti

onal

ly im

port

ant c

rops

and

lives

tock

incl

udin

g m

ixed

crop

ping

/farm

ing,

rota

tiona

l cro

ppin

g et

c.)A

ctiv

ity 2

.1.1

.2:

Trai

n sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s for

sele

ctiv

e pro

duct

ion

of n

utrit

ion-

dens

e foo

d cr

ops,

vege

tabl

es an

d fru

itsA

ctiv

ity 2

.1.1

.3:

Mak

e far

mer

s aw

are a

bout

the p

rodu

ctio

n di

vers

ifica

tion

and

impo

rtan

ce o

f nut

ritio

nally

rich

crop

s,

vege

tabl

es an

d fru

itsA

ctiv

ity 2

.1.1

.4:

Mak

e hou

seho

ld m

embe

rs aw

are o

f the

impo

rtan

ce o

f foo

d ba

sed

nutr

ition

incl

udin

g th

e die

tary

dive

rsifi

catio

n op

port

uniti

es an

d us

e of b

io-fo

rtifi

ed cr

ops

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.5

: M

ake h

ouse

hold

mem

bers

nut

ritio

n se

nsiti

ve in

sele

ctin

g th

e foo

d m

enu

Act

ivity

2.1

.2.1

: Tr

ain

farm

ers o

n liv

esto

ck p

rodu

ctio

n fo

cusin

g on

pou

ltry,

rabb

it, d

airy

cow

/buff

alo,

goa

t

and

fish

farm

ing

Act

ivity

2.1

.2.2

: Tr

ain

the f

ront

line l

ives

tock

exte

nsio

n w

orke

rs o

n pr

omot

ing

lives

tock

pro

duct

ion

of h

igh

nu

triti

onal

val

ue

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.3

: M

ake f

arm

ers a

war

e abo

ut th

e nut

ritio

nal b

enefi

t of a

nim

al so

urce

food

s and

enco

urag

e

raisi

ng an

imal

s

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

: En

gage

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers i

n ho

mes

tead

food

pro

duct

ion

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.2

: Pr

omot

e sm

all a

nim

al ra

ising

(bac

kyar

d po

ultr

y, da

iry, g

oat)

in th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

m h

ouse

hold

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.3:

Prom

ote n

utrit

iona

l sch

ool g

arde

nA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.4:

Prom

ote s

choo

l fee

ding

and

pack

ed lu

nch

prog

ram

mes

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.5

: D

evel

op tr

aini

ng p

acka

ge o

n ha

rmon

ized

food

pro

cess

ing,

pre

serv

atio

n an

d sa

fety

for n

utrit

ion

and

tr

ain

the r

elat

ed va

lue c

hain

acto

rs

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.6

: Tr

ain

farm

ers/

cons

umer

s by m

eans

of a

casc

ade o

f tra

inin

g( M

ToT,

ToT

and

Farm

er/C

onsu

mer

Trai

ning

) and

the s

taff

from

diff

eren

t sec

tors

( he

alth

, agr

icul

ture

, liv

esto

ck, w

omen

dev

elop

men

t,

educ

atio

n), h

ealth

wor

kers

, Fem

ale C

omm

unity

Hea

lth V

olun

teer

s, ag

ricul

ture

/live

stoc

k ex

tens

ion

w

orke

rs, w

omen

dev

elop

men

t wor

kers

with

the h

arm

oniz

ed tr

aini

ng p

acka

ge d

evel

oped

und

er th

e

Act

ivity

: 2.2

.1.5

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.7

: Re

view

, rev

ise, u

pdat

e and

appl

y the

rule

s, re

gula

tions

and

acts

on

the f

ood

safe

ty p

ract

ices

A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.8:

Mak

e con

sum

ers a

war

e with

cam

paig

ns o

n fo

od sa

fety

and

qual

ity

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.9

: Es

tabl

ish C

onsu

mer

Com

plai

nts U

nit i

n ea

ch o

ffice

of t

he D

epar

tmen

t of F

ood

Tech

nolo

gy an

d

Qua

lity C

ontr

olA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.10:

Co

nduc

t adv

ocac

y, aw

aren

ess a

nd ed

ucat

ion

activ

ities

on

nutr

ition

, foo

d sa

fety

and

hygi

ene a

t

all l

evel

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.11:

St

reng

then

the c

apac

ity an

d m

odal

ity o

f mon

itorin

g on

food

safe

ty an

d qu

ality

in co

ordi

natio

n w

ith

ot

her s

ecto

rsA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.12:

D

evel

op an

d en

forc

e man

dato

ry fo

od sa

fety

and

hygi

ene r

equi

rem

ents

for l

ocal

vend

ors,

smal

l

indu

strie

s and

rest

aura

nts

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

3:

Cond

uct p

erio

dic s

urve

y for

situ

atio

n of

food

safe

ty an

d qu

ality

at th

e nat

iona

l lev

elA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.1

.14:

D

evel

op tr

aini

ng m

anua

ls, fa

cilit

ator

s’ gu

idel

ines

and

orga

nize

trai

ning

for f

arm

ers w

ith em

phas

is

on th

e par

ticip

atio

n of

wom

en fa

rmer

s on

food

pro

cess

ing,

pre

para

tion

and

pres

erva

tion

at th

e

com

mun

ity le

vel

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

5:

Esta

blish

com

mun

ity b

ased

food

pre

serv

atio

n an

d pr

oces

sing

unit

Out

put –

2.1

.1Lo

cal f

ood

prod

uctio

n sy

stem

di

vers

ified

with

focu

s on

unco

nven

tiona

l nut

ritio

us

crop

s, fru

its, v

eget

able

s for

th

eir i

ncre

ased

cons

umpt

ion

Out

put –

2.1

.2Lo

cal p

rodu

ctio

n of

anim

al

sour

ce p

rodu

cts e

nhan

ced

for c

onsu

mpt

ion

by th

e sm

allh

olde

r fam

ily m

embe

rs

Out

put –

2.2

.1St

reng

then

ed ca

paci

ty o

f fa

rmer

s, m

othe

r gro

ups a

nd

smal

l coo

pera

tives

on

the

stor

age a

nd p

roce

ssin

g of

fo

od in

clud

ing

thei

r pr

epar

atio

n an

d pr

eser

vatio

n at

the c

omm

unity

leve

l

Out

com

e –

2.2

Enha

nced

acce

ss an

d ut

ilisa

tion

of sa

fe,

nutr

itiou

s and

div

erse

fo

od ac

cess

ible

amon

g th

e poo

r hou

seho

lds

follo

wed

by i

mpr

oved

he

alth

and

nutr

ition

se

rvic

es

Out

com

e –

2.1

Nut

ritio

n se

nsiti

ve

agric

ultu

ral s

yste

m

prom

oted


Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

: D

evel

op tr

aini

ng p

acka

ge fo

r the

pro

mot

ion

of fo

od b

ased

die

tary

gui

delin

esA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.2:

Cond

uct a

dvoc

acy a

nd ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

activ

ities

for t

he se

ctor

al fu

nctio

narie

s on

heal

thy d

iet

an

d fo

od b

ased

die

tary

gui

delin

es at

all l

evel

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.3:

Enha

nce t

he tr

aini

ng, c

ouns

ellin

g an

d so

cial

mob

iliza

tion

skill

s for

the f

ront

line w

orke

rs an

d

exte

nsio

n w

orke

rsA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.4:

Dev

elop

and

diss

emin

ate n

ew, i

nnov

ativ

e and

cont

extu

al b

ehav

iour

chan

ge m

essa

ges o

n fo

od sa

fety

,

heal

thy d

iet a

nd d

iet d

iver

sifica

tion

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.5

: D

evel

op fo

od b

ased

man

ual (

for a

ll ag

e gro

ups)

in li

ne w

ith F

BDG

A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.6:

Cond

uct c

asca

de tr

aini

ng to

the h

ouse

hold

s thr

ough

fron

tline

wor

kers

from

diff

eren

t sec

tors

(agr

icul

ture

, hea

lth, w

omen

dev

elop

men

t, ed

ucat

ion

etc.)

A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.7:

Mak

e dist

ribut

ion

of n

utrit

iona

l rat

ion

man

dato

ry th

roug

h th

e pub

lic in

stitu

tions

targ

etin

g th

e foo

d

defic

it an

d hu

man

itaria

n cr

isis a

reas

for t

he b

enefi

t of v

ulne

rabl

e gro

ups i

nclu

ding

child

ren,

preg

nant

and

lact

atin

g w

omen

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.8

: Ru

n ad

voca

cy p

rogr

amm

es to

per

suad

e the

hou

seho

lds f

or m

aint

aini

ng fo

od re

serv

e to

over

com

e

poss

ible

seas

onal

shor

tage

s and

pro

vide

tech

nica

l sup

port

for e

stab

lishi

ng im

prov

ed st

orag

e fac

ilitie

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.9:

Esta

blish

and

oper

ate g

rain

ban

ks at

the c

omm

unity

leve

l to

mee

t sea

sona

l foo

d sh

orta

ges b

y

mob

ilizi

ng lo

cal o

rgan

izat

ions

and

the c

omm

unity

mem

bers

.A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.10:

M

ake p

regn

ant w

omen

awar

e of t

he ri

sk o

f con

sum

ing

alco

hol a

nd ci

gare

ttes

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

1:

Prov

ide s

ocia

l pro

tect

ion

to th

e ultr

a-po

or/v

ulne

rabl

e gro

ups w

ith fo

od as

sista

nce (

thro

ugh

the

ac

tiviti

es su

ch as

Foo

d St

amp

and

food

-for-

wor

k op

port

uniti

es, c

ash

tran

sfer e

tc.)

in th

e foo

d

defic

it ar

eas

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

2:

Prom

ote h

ealth

and

nutr

ition

serv

ices

in th

e com

mun

ity to

incr

ease

the u

se o

f ser

vice

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.13:

Pr

omot

e foo

d an

d re

cipe

dem

onst

ratio

n at

the c

omm

unity

leve

l

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.1

: Co

nduc

t adv

ocac

y tar

getin

g po

licy m

aker

s, pr

ogra

m m

anag

ers a

nd d

istric

t per

sonn

el o

n nu

triti

on

se

nsiti

ve ag

ricul

ture

and

food

bas

ed n

utrit

ion

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.2

: D

evel

op ad

voca

cy p

acka

ge an

d po

licy b

riefs,

com

mun

icat

ion

mat

eria

ls fo

r diss

emin

atio

nA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.3

.3:

Prom

ote w

omen

dru

dger

y red

uctio

n an

d la

bour

savi

ng te

chno

logi

es fo

r foo

d an

d nu

triti

on se

curit

y

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.1

: D

evel

op a

nutr

ition

pro

toco

l for

nut

ritio

n as

sess

men

t and

man

agem

ent f

or th

e hea

lth se

rvic

e

prov

ider

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.4

.2:

Pilo

t IFA

supp

lem

enta

tion

appl

icab

le fo

r the

per

i-con

cept

ual p

erio

d an

d ad

oles

cent

per

iods

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.3

: Im

plem

ent I

FA su

pple

men

tatio

n co

mbi

ned

with

hom

este

ad fo

od p

rodu

ctio

n A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.4

.4:

Inte

grat

e nut

ritio

n co

unse

ling

at d

iffer

ent c

onta

ct p

oint

s und

er h

ealth

targ

etin

g th

e mat

erna

l and

child

hea

lth

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.1

: Re

view

, rev

ise an

d de

velo

p tr

aini

ng g

uide

lines

, man

uals

and

IEC

mat

eria

ls (w

ith fo

cus o

n fo

od

ba

sed

heal

thy d

iet t

o im

prov

e die

tary

div

ersit

y and

enha

ncin

g co

unse

lling

skill

s) b

y tar

getin

g

pr

egna

nt/la

ctat

ing

wom

en an

d ch

ildre

n of

age u

nder

2 ye

ars

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.2

: U

se IC

T to

del

iver

SBC

C m

essa

ges t

arge

ting

the fi

rst 1

000

days

hou

seho

lds

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.3

: D

evel

op re

cipe

boo

k fo

r com

plem

enta

ry fe

edin

g ba

sed

on th

e ava

ilabi

lity o

f loc

al fo

ods (

for e

ach

ec

olog

ical

regi

ons)

and

prom

ote t

heir

utili

zatio

n in

the c

omm

unity

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.4

: Pr

omot

e die

tary

div

ersit

y for

pre

gnan

t, la

ctat

ing

and

child

ren

unde

r 2 ye

ars o

f age

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.5

: Im

prov

e loc

al fe

edin

g pr

actic

es th

roug

h im

prov

emen

t in

loca

l rec

ipes

(usin

g TR

IPS

met

hodo

logy

)

Act

ivity

2.3

.1.1

: Ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

of h

ealth

and

non-

heal

th se

ctor

func

tiona

ries o

n fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n A

ctiv

ity 2

.3.1

.2:

In-c

ount

ry as

wel

l out

-cou

ntry

colla

bora

tion

and

expo

sure

to ag

ro-b

ased

pro

ject

s and

food

base

d nu

triti

on p

rogr

amm

esA

ctiv

ity 2

.3.1

.3:

Prom

ote f

orm

al an

d in

form

al ed

ucat

iona

l ser

vice

s (e.g

. SH

N, E

CD, p

aren

tal c

ouns

ellin

g et

c.)

to

kee

p th

e nut

ritio

nal b

ehav

iour

inta

ct

Out

put –

2.2

.2N

utrit

ion

educ

atio

n re

late

d in

form

atio

n di

ssem

inat

ed

appl

ying

food

bas

ed d

ieta

ry

guid

elin

es an

d he

alth

y die

t pr

actic

e with

the p

rom

otio

n of

hea

lth, a

gric

ultu

re an

d so

cial

pro

tect

ion

serv

ices

Out

put –

2.2

.3Fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n re

late

d ad

voca

cy an

d ca

paci

ty

build

ing

com

pete

nce o

f the

fro

ntlin

e wor

kers

, agr

icul

ture

ex

tens

ion

wor

kers

, soc

ial

wor

kers

and

heal

th

prof

essio

nals

enha

nced

at

all l

evel

s

Out

put –

2.2

.4N

utrit

ion

serv

ices

impr

oved

w

ith th

eir i

nteg

ratio

n of

the

heal

th se

rvic

es

Out

put –

2.2

.5M

ater

nal,

Infa

nt an

d Yo

ung

Child

Nut

ritio

n pr

actic

es

impr

oved

with

spec

ial f

ocus

on

impr

ovin

g th

e die

tary

di

vers

ity

Out

com

e –

2.3

Enab

ling

envi

ronm

ent

crea

ted

for m

ulti-

sect

or

coor

dina

tion

for c

oher

ent,

func

tiona

l and

conc

erte

d ac

tions

for n

utrit

ion

at

all l

evel

s

Out

put –

2.3

.1In

stitu

tiona

l as w

ell a

s hu

man

reso

urce

capa

city

of

the g

over

nmen

t sec

tor

func

tiona

ries i

mpr

oved

for

addr

essin

g th

e iss

ue o

f fo

od an

d nu

triti

on se

curit

y at

all l

evel

s

Out

com

e –

2.2

(Con

td. .

.2)

Enha

nced

acc

ess a

nd

utili

satio

n of

safe

, nu

triti

ous a

nd d

iver

se

food

acc

essi

ble

amon

g th

e po

or h

ouse

hold

s fo

llow

ed b

y im

prov

ed

heal

th a

nd n

utri

tion

serv

ices


Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

: D

evel

op tr

aini

ng p

acka

ge fo

r the

pro

mot

ion

of fo

od b

ased

die

tary

gui

delin

esA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.2:

Cond

uct a

dvoc

acy a

nd ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

activ

ities

for t

he se

ctor

al fu

nctio

narie

s on

heal

thy d

iet

an

d fo

od b

ased

die

tary

gui

delin

es at

all l

evel

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.3:

Enha

nce t

he tr

aini

ng, c

ouns

ellin

g an

d so

cial

mob

iliza

tion

skill

s for

the f

ront

line w

orke

rs an

d

exte

nsio

n w

orke

rsA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.4:

Dev

elop

and

diss

emin

ate n

ew, i

nnov

ativ

e and

cont

extu

al b

ehav

iour

chan

ge m

essa

ges o

n fo

od sa

fety

,

heal

thy d

iet a

nd d

iet d

iver

sifica

tion

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.5

: D

evel

op fo

od b

ased

man

ual (

for a

ll ag

e gro

ups)

in li

ne w

ith F

BDG

A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.6:

Cond

uct c

asca

de tr

aini

ng to

the h

ouse

hold

s thr

ough

fron

tline

wor

kers

from

diff

eren

t sec

tors

(agr

icul

ture

, hea

lth, w

omen

dev

elop

men

t, ed

ucat

ion

etc.)

A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.7:

Mak

e dist

ribut

ion

of n

utrit

iona

l rat

ion

man

dato

ry th

roug

h th

e pub

lic in

stitu

tions

targ

etin

g th

e foo

d

defic

it an

d hu

man

itaria

n cr

isis a

reas

for t

he b

enefi

t of v

ulne

rabl

e gro

ups i

nclu

ding

child

ren,

preg

nant

and

lact

atin

g w

omen

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.8

: Ru

n ad

voca

cy p

rogr

amm

es to

per

suad

e the

hou

seho

lds f

or m

aint

aini

ng fo

od re

serv

e to

over

com

e

poss

ible

seas

onal

shor

tage

s and

pro

vide

tech

nica

l sup

port

for e

stab

lishi

ng im

prov

ed st

orag

e fac

ilitie

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.9:

Esta

blish

and

oper

ate g

rain

ban

ks at

the c

omm

unity

leve

l to

mee

t sea

sona

l foo

d sh

orta

ges b

y

mob

ilizi

ng lo

cal o

rgan

izat

ions

and

the c

omm

unity

mem

bers

.A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.10:

M

ake p

regn

ant w

omen

awar

e of t

he ri

sk o

f con

sum

ing

alco

hol a

nd ci

gare

ttes

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

1:

Prov

ide s

ocia

l pro

tect

ion

to th

e ultr

a-po

or/v

ulne

rabl

e gro

ups w

ith fo

od as

sista

nce (

thro

ugh

the

ac

tiviti

es su

ch as

Foo

d St

amp

and

food

-for-

wor

k op

port

uniti

es, c

ash

tran

sfer e

tc.)

in th

e foo

d

defic

it ar

eas

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

2:

Prom

ote h

ealth

and

nutr

ition

serv

ices

in th

e com

mun

ity to

incr

ease

the u

se o

f ser

vice

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.2

.13:

Pr

omot

e foo

d an

d re

cipe

dem

onst

ratio

n at

the c

omm

unity

leve

l

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.1

: Co

nduc

t adv

ocac

y tar

getin

g po

licy m

aker

s, pr

ogra

m m

anag

ers a

nd d

istric

t per

sonn

el o

n nu

triti

on

se

nsiti

ve ag

ricul

ture

and

food

bas

ed n

utrit

ion

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.2

: D

evel

op ad

voca

cy p

acka

ge an

d po

licy b

riefs,

com

mun

icat

ion

mat

eria

ls fo

r diss

emin

atio

nA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.3

.3:

Prom

ote w

omen

dru

dger

y red

uctio

n an

d la

bour

savi

ng te

chno

logi

es fo

r foo

d an

d nu

triti

on se

curit

y

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.1

: D

evel

op a

nutr

ition

pro

toco

l for

nut

ritio

n as

sess

men

t and

man

agem

ent f

or th

e hea

lth se

rvic

e

prov

ider

sA

ctiv

ity 2

.2.4

.2:

Pilo

t IFA

supp

lem

enta

tion

appl

icab

le fo

r the

per

i-con

cept

ual p

erio

d an

d ad

oles

cent

per

iods

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.3

: Im

plem

ent I

FA su

pple

men

tatio

n co

mbi

ned

with

hom

este

ad fo

od p

rodu

ctio

n A

ctiv

ity 2

.2.4

.4:

Inte

grat

e nut

ritio

n co

unse

ling

at d

iffer

ent c

onta

ct p

oint

s und

er h

ealth

targ

etin

g th

e mat

erna

l and

child

hea

lth

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.1

: Re

view

, rev

ise an

d de

velo

p tr

aini

ng g

uide

lines

, man

uals

and

IEC

mat

eria

ls (w

ith fo

cus o

n fo

od

ba

sed

heal

thy d

iet t

o im

prov

e die

tary

div

ersit

y and

enha

ncin

g co

unse

lling

skill

s) b

y tar

getin

g

pr

egna

nt/la

ctat

ing

wom

en an

d ch

ildre

n of

age u

nder

2 ye

ars

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.2

: U

se IC

T to

del

iver

SBC

C m

essa

ges t

arge

ting

the fi

rst 1

000

days

hou

seho

lds

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.3

: D

evel

op re

cipe

boo

k fo

r com

plem

enta

ry fe

edin

g ba

sed

on th

e ava

ilabi

lity o

f loc

al fo

ods (

for e

ach

ec

olog

ical

regi

ons)

and

prom

ote t

heir

utili

zatio

n in

the c

omm

unity

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.4

: Pr

omot

e die

tary

div

ersit

y for

pre

gnan

t, la

ctat

ing

and

child

ren

unde

r 2 ye

ars o

f age

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.5

: Im

prov

e loc

al fe

edin

g pr

actic

es th

roug

h im

prov

emen

t in

loca

l rec

ipes

(usin

g TR

IPS

met

hodo

logy

)

Act

ivity

2.3

.1.1

: Ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

of h

ealth

and

non-

heal

th se

ctor

func

tiona

ries o

n fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n A

ctiv

ity 2

.3.1

.2:

In-c

ount

ry as

wel

l out

-cou

ntry

colla

bora

tion

and

expo

sure

to ag

ro-b

ased

pro

ject

s and

food

base

d nu

triti

on p

rogr

amm

esA

ctiv

ity 2

.3.1

.3:

Prom

ote f

orm

al an

d in

form

al ed

ucat

iona

l ser

vice

s (e.g

. SH

N, E

CD, p

aren

tal c

ouns

ellin

g et

c.)

to

kee

p th

e nut

ritio

nal b

ehav

iour

inta

ct

Out

put –

2.2

.2N

utrit

ion

educ

atio

n re

late

d in

form

atio

n di

ssem

inat

ed

appl

ying

food

bas

ed d

ieta

ry

guid

elin

es an

d he

alth

y die

t pr

actic

e with

the p

rom

otio

n of

hea

lth, a

gric

ultu

re an

d so

cial

pro

tect

ion

serv

ices

Out

put –

2.2

.3Fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n re

late

d ad

voca

cy an

d ca

paci

ty

build

ing

com

pete

nce o

f the

fro

ntlin

e wor

kers

, agr

icul

ture

ex

tens

ion

wor

kers

, soc

ial

wor

kers

and

heal

th

prof

essio

nals

enha

nced

at

all l

evel

s

Out

put –

2.2

.4N

utrit

ion

serv

ices

impr

oved

w

ith th

eir i

nteg

ratio

n of

the

heal

th se

rvic

es

Out

put –

2.2

.5M

ater

nal,

Infa

nt an

d Yo

ung

Child

Nut

ritio

n pr

actic

es

impr

oved

with

spec

ial f

ocus

on

impr

ovin

g th

e die

tary

di

vers

ity

Out

com

e –

2.3

Enab

ling

envi

ronm

ent

crea

ted

for m

ulti-

sect

or

coor

dina

tion

for c

oher

ent,

func

tiona

l and

conc

erte

d ac

tions

for n

utrit

ion

at

all l

evel

s

Out

put –

2.3

.1In

stitu

tiona

l as w

ell a

s hu

man

reso

urce

capa

city

of

the g

over

nmen

t sec

tor

func

tiona

ries i

mpr

oved

for

addr

essin

g th

e iss

ue o

f fo

od an

d nu

triti

on se

curit

y at

all l

evel

s

Out

com

e –

2.2

(Con

td. .

.2)

Enha

nced

acc

ess a

nd

utili

satio

n of

safe

, nu

triti

ous a

nd d

iver

se

food

acc

essi

ble

amon

g th

e po

or h

ouse

hold

s fo

llow

ed b

y im

prov

ed

heal

th a

nd n

utri

tion

serv

ices

Pilla

r – II

I: A

ll Fo

od S

yste

ms a

re S

usta

inab

le

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

: Pr

omot

e sus

tain

able

man

agem

ent o

f soi

l and

farm

wat

erA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.2:

Cont

rol u

nsus

tain

able

use

of l

and

and

othe

r eco

syst

em re

sour

ces

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.3

: Pr

omot

e ado

ptio

n of

tech

nolo

gies

cont

ribut

ing

to su

stai

n ag

ricul

ture

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.4

: Pr

omot

e ado

ptio

n of

org

anic

farm

ing

prac

tices

to re

duce

dep

ende

ncy o

n ch

emic

al fe

rtili

zers

and

pest

icid

esA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.5:

Rest

rict i

nves

tmen

ts th

at d

amag

e sus

tain

abili

ty o

f nat

ural

reso

urce

s.A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.6:

Prom

otio

n of

bio

dive

rsity

cons

erva

tion

prac

tices

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.7

: Pr

omot

e con

serv

atio

n se

nsiti

ve ag

ricul

ture

A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.8:

Prov

ide i

ncen

tive t

o th

e com

mun

ities

pro

mot

ing

sust

aina

ble u

se o

f res

ourc

es.

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.9

: M

aint

ain

land

, wat

er an

d en

ergy

nex

us in

tact

in th

e int

erve

ntio

ns fo

r dev

elop

men

tA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.10:

A

pply

rene

wab

ility

as a

crite

rion

in th

e con

serv

atio

n an

d ut

iliza

tion

of la

nd, w

ater

and

bio-

di

vers

ity re

sour

ces

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

1:

Prom

ote s

lopi

ng ag

ricul

ture

land

tech

nolo

gy in

the m

id an

d hi

gh h

ills

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

2:

Stre

ngth

en G

ene B

ank

for p

rote

ctio

n of

nat

ive s

peci

esA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.13:

A

pply

trad

ition

al k

now

ledg

e for

sust

aina

ble u

se o

f nat

ural

reso

urce

s.A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.2

.14:

Co

nduc

t agr

o-fo

rest

ry ac

tiviti

es in

colla

bora

tion

with

the F

ores

t and

Soi

l Con

serv

atio

n M

inist

ry

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.1

: Tr

ain

farm

ers t

o co

pe w

ith th

e adv

erse

effec

ts o

f clim

ate c

hang

e and

nat

ural

disa

ster

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.3

.2:

Stre

ngth

en th

e rol

e of N

atio

nal I

nfor

mat

ion

and

Early

War

ning

Sys

tem

(NIE

WS)

in in

form

ing

po

ssib

le ad

vers

e effe

cts o

f CCN

D.

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.3

: Co

nduc

t res

earc

h on

clim

ate r

esili

ent a

gric

ultu

re d

evel

opm

ent p

ract

ices

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.4

: Pr

omot

e str

ess t

oler

ant c

ropp

ing

patte

rns a

nd p

ract

ices

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.5

: Im

plem

ent b

io-e

ngin

eerin

g m

easu

res f

or re

duct

ion

of th

e adv

erse

effec

ts o

f nat

ural

disa

ster

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.3

.6:

Use

Loc

al A

dapt

atio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e of A

ctio

n (L

APA

) as a

dist

rict p

lan

coor

dina

tion

guid

eA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.3

.7:

Incl

ude D

isast

er R

isk M

anag

emen

t (D

RM) a

s one

of t

he co

mpo

nent

s in

the a

gric

ultu

ral a

nd ru

ral

de

velo

pmen

t pla

ns at

the d

istric

t lev

elA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.3

.8:

Repl

icat

e bes

t pra

ctic

es le

arne

d fro

m th

e pilo

ted

expe

rienc

e of r

isk-p

rone

area

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.3

.9:

Prev

ent s

easo

nal f

ood

supp

ly sh

orta

ges b

y dec

entr

aliz

ing

rese

rve a

t the

dist

rict

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.1

: A

sses

s the

nat

ure a

nd st

atus

of t

he w

ater

shed

at d

iffer

ent t

ime i

nter

vals

(eve

ry th

ree y

ears

)A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.1

.2:

Mak

e lan

d us

e and

wat

er m

anag

emen

t pra

ctic

es co

nser

vatio

n-se

nsiti

veA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.1

.3:

Iden

tify a

nd ap

ply m

easu

res a

gain

st d

eter

iora

ting

cond

ition

s of t

he w

ater

shed

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.1

.4:

Enfo

rce e

nviro

nmen

tal q

ualit

y sta

ndar

ds in

line

with

the F

ores

t Man

agem

ent G

uide

lines

A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.1

.5:

Enfo

rce t

he D

isast

er M

anag

emen

t Act

to co

ntro

l far

m-in

duce

d de

grad

atio

n of

land

and

wat

er

re

sour

ces

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.6

: In

crea

se co

mm

unity

par

ticip

atio

n in

man

agin

g de

grad

ed fa

rm an

d fo

rest

area

s

Out

put –

3.1

.2Fa

rm w

ater

and

soil

man

aged

by r

etai

ning

th

eir c

ontr

ibut

ions

to

prod

uctiv

e use

s

Out

put –

3.1

.1W

ater

shed

safe

guar

ded

agai

nst d

eter

iora

tion

Out

put –

3.1

.3Fa

rmer

s’ ca

paci

ty

stre

ngth

ened

to co

pe w

ith

the a

dver

se eff

ects

of

clim

ate c

hang

e and

na

tura

l disa

ster

s

Out

com

e –

3.1

Sust

aina

bly m

anag

ed

prod

uctiv

e nat

ural

re

sour

ces f

or fo

od

prod

uctio

n


Act

ivity

3.2

.1.1

: Se

t man

dato

ry q

ualit

y and

safe

ty re

quire

men

ts fo

r the

maj

or co

nsum

able

food

item

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.2:

Diss

emin

ate i

nfor

mat

ion

amon

g th

e sta

keho

lder

s abo

ut th

e man

dato

ry fo

od q

ualit

y and

safe

ty

re

quire

men

ts to

be m

etA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.3:

Stre

ngth

en re

gula

tory

mec

hani

sms f

or th

e mon

itorin

g of

qua

lity a

nd sa

fety

of f

ood

prod

ucts

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.4

: St

reng

then

the c

apac

ity o

f nat

iona

l foo

d la

bora

tory

to o

fferin

g fo

od fo

r saf

ety a

nd q

ualit

y tes

t s

ervi

ces f

or ac

cred

itatio

nA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.5:

Enac

t and

impl

emen

t Nat

iona

l Bio

secu

rity P

olic

yA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.6:

Esta

blish

com

mun

ity-b

ased

food

han

dlin

g sy

stem

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.7:

Prom

ote c

ontr

ibut

ion

of lo

cal/t

radi

tiona

l foo

d in

the f

ood

men

u w

ith su

ppor

t for

a su

bsid

ized

selli

ng ra

teA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.1

.8:

Impl

emen

t Pes

t Risk

Ana

lysis

Sys

tem

(PRA

) in

the q

uara

ntin

e

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.1

: S

tand

ardi

ze g

radi

ng o

f agr

icul

tura

l pro

duct

s for

mar

ketin

gA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.2

.2:

Prom

ote a

cces

s to

mar

ket f

or al

l agr

ibus

ines

s val

ue ch

ains

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.3

: Co

ntro

l mar

ket p

rice d

istor

tions

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.4

: Pr

omot

e exc

hang

e of m

arke

t pric

e inf

orm

atio

nA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.2

.5:

Stre

ngth

en in

form

atio

n co

llect

ion,

anal

ysis

and

repo

rtin

g ca

paci

ty fo

r effe

ctiv

e diss

emin

atio

n of

agric

ultu

ral p

rice s

tatis

tics

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.6

: Co

ntro

l una

utho

rized

colle

ctio

n of

taxe

s dur

ing

tran

sfer o

f the

agric

ultu

ral p

rodu

cts a

cros

s the

villa

ges a

nd d

istric

tsA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.2

.7:

Mon

itor d

rug

resid

ues i

n th

e agr

icul

tura

l com

mod

ities

(e.g

. milk

, mea

t, ho

ney,

tea a

nd co

ffee)

t

o be

mar

kete

dA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.2

.8:

Enco

urag

e ado

ptio

n of

pow

er-b

ased

tech

nolo

gies

in th

e pro

cess

ing

of ag

ricul

tura

l pro

duct

sA

ctiv

ity 3

.2.2

.9

Prom

ote t

he u

se o

f alte

rnat

e sou

rces

of e

nerg

y in

the v

alue

chai

n op

erat

ions

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.1

: Tr

ain

serv

ice p

rovi

ders

on

land

surv

ey an

d la

nd u

se m

appi

ngA

ctiv

ity 3

.1.4

.2:

Util

ize l

and

unde

r the

agro

-eco

logi

cal z

onin

g cr

iteria

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.3

: U

tiliz

e Lan

d In

form

atio

n Se

rvic

e (LI

S) fa

cilit

y for

dev

elop

ing

the l

and

use p

lans

and

mon

itorin

g

impl

emen

ted

activ

ities

A

ctiv

ity 3

.1.4

.4:

Disc

oura

ge co

nver

sion

of ag

ricul

tura

l lan

d fo

r the

pur

pose

of n

on-a

gric

ultu

ral u

se

Out

put –

3.2

.1Fo

od h

andl

ing

syst

em

foun

ded

with

nat

iona

l qu

ality

and

safe

ty st

anda

rds

Out

put –

3.1

.4La

nd re

form

pra

ctic

es

appl

ied

/ im

prov

ed

Out

com

e –

3.1

(Con

td..

2)Su

stai

nabl

y man

aged

pr

oduc

tive n

atur

al

reso

urce

s for

food

pr

oduc

tion

Out

com

e –

3.2

Qua

lity a

nd sa

fety

st

anda

rds m

aint

aine

d in

the f

ood

chai

ns

Out

put –

3.2

.2A

cces

s to

food

chai

n m

arke

ts im

prov

ed


Pilla

r – IV

: 100

% In

crea

se in

Sm

allh

olde

r Pro

duct

ivity

and

Inco

me

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.1

: Co

nduc

t bas

elin

e sur

vey o

f sm

allh

olde

rs o

n th

eir p

rodu

ctiv

ity an

d in

com

e.A

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.2

Intr

oduc

e vou

cher

syst

em to

incr

ease

acce

ss o

f sm

allh

olde

rs o

n in

puts

and

exte

nsio

n se

rvic

es

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.3

: A

pply

conc

essio

nal t

axes

and

dutie

s on

the a

gric

ultu

re m

achi

nerie

s and

tool

s.A

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.4:

Esta

blish

new

colle

ctio

n an

d m

arke

t cen

tres

A

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.5:

Enga

ge sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s to

incr

ease

thei

r eco

nom

ies o

f sca

le w

ith co

llect

ive p

rodu

ctio

n pr

actic

esA

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.6:

App

ly sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s foc

used

exte

nsio

n se

rvic

esA

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.7:

Stre

ngth

en fa

rm m

anag

emen

t cap

acity

the s

mal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.8

: Pr

ovid

e inp

ut su

bsid

y by e

xclu

sivel

y tar

getin

g sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s A

ctiv

ity 4

.1.1

.9:

Prom

ote c

ontr

act f

arm

ing

prac

tices

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.1

0:

Diss

emin

ate a

gric

ultu

re in

nova

tions

thro

ugh

the m

edia

pla

tform

s (ra

dio,

new

spap

ers,

TV et

c.).

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.1

: Ba

selin

e sur

vey o

f sm

allh

olde

rs o

n th

eir l

ives

tock

pro

duct

ivity

and

inco

me i

n al

l dist

ricts

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.2

: Es

tabl

ish re

sour

ce ce

ntre

for b

reed

impr

ovem

ent

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.3

: In

crea

se ra

ising

of s

mal

l liv

esto

ck (g

oat,

pigs

and

poul

try)

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.4

: In

crea

se ra

ising

of l

arge

anim

als (

such

as co

w, b

uffal

o) as

priv

ate fi

rmA

ctiv

ity 4

.1.2

.5:

Prom

ote s

cien

tific m

anag

emen

t and

use

of p

ublic

pas

ture

land

sA

ctiv

ity 4

.1.2

.6:

Prov

ide a

cces

s to

anim

al h

ealth

serv

ices

(bot

h pr

even

tive a

nd cu

rativ

e)A

ctiv

ity 4

.1.2

.7:

Subs

idiz

e rur

al p

arav

et se

rvic

es

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.1

: Su

ppor

t for

smal

lhol

der f

arm

s with

inst

itutio

nal c

redi

t ser

vice

sA

ctiv

ity 4

.2.1

.2:

Mak

e prio

rity s

ecto

r len

ding

man

dato

ry to

reac

h th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

ms

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.3

: Re

duce

inte

rest

rate

of a

gric

ultu

ral l

oans

targ

eted

to th

e sm

allh

olde

rsA

ctiv

ity 4

.2.1

.4:

Incr

ease

acce

ss o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s to

the c

once

ssio

nal l

oans

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.5

: Si

mpl

ify le

ndin

g pr

oced

ures

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.6

: Pr

ovid

e inc

entiv

e to

the f

arm

ers f

or in

vest

ing

and

re-in

vest

ing

deci

sions

for t

he in

tens

ifica

tion

of

agric

ultu

ral a

ctiv

ities

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.7

: Pr

omot

e gro

up sa

ving

s and

cred

it se

rvic

esA

ctiv

ity 4

.2.1

.8:

Mob

ilize

coop

erat

ives

to su

ppor

t agr

icul

tura

l val

ue ch

ains

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.1

: In

crea

se th

e num

ber o

f far

mer

s obt

aini

ng in

sura

nce f

or th

e sec

urity

of t

heir

crop

s and

live

stoc

k

prod

uctio

n an

d en

terp

rise i

n ca

se o

f fai

lure

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.2

: Ta

ilor fi

nanc

ial p

rodu

cts t

o th

e nee

d of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.3

: Pr

omot

e str

ess t

oler

ant c

rop

varie

ties a

nd b

reed

to m

itiga

te th

e adv

erse

effec

t of c

limat

e

chan

ge to

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

Out

put –

4.1

.1In

com

e of s

mal

lhol

der

farm

ers i

ncre

ased

from

the

adop

tion

of ag

ribus

ines

s cr

op p

rodu

ctio

n pr

actic

es

Out

put –

4.1

.2In

com

e of l

ives

tock

raisi

ng

farm

ers i

ncre

ased

with

im

prov

ed ag

ribus

ines

s pr

actic

es

Out

put –

4.2

.1A

cces

s of s

mal

l far

ms t

o th

e ins

titut

iona

l fina

nce

serv

ices

incr

ease

d

Out

put –

4.2

.2Sm

all f

arm

s pro

tect

ed

agai

nst t

heir

inve

stm

ent

risks

on

agric

ultu

ral

prod

uctio

n, p

roce

ssin

g an

d m

arke

ting

Out

com

e –

4.2

Agr

icul

tura

l inv

estm

ent

incr

ease

d in

the s

mal

l fa

rms

Out

com

e –

4.1

Prod

uctiv

ity o

f cro

p an

d liv

esto

ck in

crea

sed

to

doub

le th

e inc

ome o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

ms


Act

ivity

4.3

.1.1

: M

ake a

gric

ultu

ral s

mal

lhol

der a

gric

ultu

re in

com

e luc

rativ

eA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.1

.2:

Enco

urag

e sm

all s

cale

agro

-pro

cess

or to

enha

nce e

ffici

ency

of t

heir

prod

uctio

n pr

oces

s with

the

ap

plic

atio

n of

alte

rnat

e ene

rgy s

ourc

esA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.1

.3:

Agr

icul

tura

l wor

kers

hav

ing

oppo

rtun

ities

for y

ear-

roun

d w

ork

in th

e far

m, o

ff-fa

rm an

d

non-

farm

sect

ors

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.4

: En

gage

wom

en in

the i

ncom

e gen

erat

ing

activ

ities

(IG

As)

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.5

: En

hanc

e bus

ines

s pla

nnin

g an

d m

anag

emen

t cap

acity

of t

he sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

sA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.1

.6:

Prot

ect s

elf-e

mpl

oyed

entr

epre

neur

s by t

axin

g im

port

of t

he p

rodu

cts t

hat c

ompe

te w

ith

lo

cal p

rodu

ctio

nA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.1

.7:

Enga

ge sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

gro

ups i

n pr

oduc

ing

NTF

Ps an

d M

APs

on

the l

ease

hold

and

co

mm

unity

fore

st ar

eas

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.8

: Bu

ild ca

paci

ty o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s for

ope

ratin

g ag

ro-to

urism

bus

ines

s as a

n al

tern

ate

so

urce

of i

ncom

eA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.1

.9:

Prom

ote p

rodu

ctio

n an

d tr

ade o

f hig

h va

lue a

gric

ultu

ral p

rodu

cts

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.1

: M

ake t

he la

nd la

w sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s sen

sitiv

eA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.2

.2:

Leas

e for

est a

reas

to th

e sm

allh

olde

r gro

ups f

or th

eir e

ngag

emen

t in

the l

arge

r siz

ed

pr

oduc

tive a

ctiv

ities

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.3

: A

pply

land

util

izat

ion

prov

ision

for t

he tr

ansfe

r of f

allo

w la

nd to

the c

ultiv

ator

s on

a con

trac

tual

bas

isA

ctiv

ity 4

.3.2

.4:

Util

ize w

aste

land

for p

rodu

ctiv

e pur

pose

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.5

: Es

tabl

ish d

atab

ase w

ith d

isagg

rega

ted

figur

es o

n th

e con

trib

utio

n of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers i

n

prod

uctio

n an

d th

eir i

ncom

e lev

els

Out

put –

4.3

.1U

nem

ploy

ed sm

all f

arm

yo

uths

earn

ing

inco

me

with

acce

ss to

new

em

ploy

men

t opp

ortu

nity

in

the f

arm

, off-

farm

and

non-

farm

sect

ors

Out

put –

4.3

.2In

crea

sed

acce

ss o

f sm

all

farm

s to

land

and

othe

r pr

oduc

tive n

atur

al

reso

urce

s

Out

com

e –

4.3

Inco

me o

f sm

all f

arm

s do

uble

d w

ith ac

cess

to

dive

rsifi

ed em

ploy

men

t op

port

uniti

es

Pilla

r – V

: Zer

o Fo

od L

oss a

nd W

aste

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.1

: Co

nduc

t a st

udy t

o id

entif

y maj

or fo

od lo

ss p

oint

s, ca

uses

and

the m

agni

tude

of l

oss a

t diff

eren

t

leve

ls of

food

supp

ly an

d ut

iliza

tion

chai

nsA

ctiv

ity 5

.1.1

.2:

Esta

blish

dat

abas

e and

mon

itor a

nnua

l los

s to

deve

lop

and

impl

emen

t los

s con

trol

pla

nsA

ctiv

ity 5

.1.1

.3:

Crea

te aw

aren

ess a

mon

g al

l sta

keho

lder

s abo

ut th

e way

s of r

educ

ing

food

loss

/was

tage

Act

ivity

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(See Annex –II for related indicators and targets).

Through the implementation of above mentioned Pillar specific activities, the NAP intends to accomplish its envisaged outputs and outcomes. It will be aligned to ADS and expect to complement its targets as follows:

Table 1: Major Indicators and Targets

S.N. Indicator BaselineTargets

2020 20251 Population with food inadequacy 31%1 15.5% 02 Proportion of under nourished in population (%) 6.82 3.4 03 Calorie intake among the undernourished population 1,700 kcal3 1,960 kcal 2,220 kcal

4 Sticking capacity of households to meet seasonal shortage of food 362 Kg4 644 kg 925 kg.

5 % of farm land solely or jointly owned by women 10%5 15% 30%6 % of farmers reached by agricultural programme 12%6 17% 22%7 Average annual growth of GDP 3%7 4% 5%8 Agricultural land productivity (ADGP/ ha) $ 1,8048 $2,302 $ 29389 AGDP/Agricultural Labour $ 7949 $ 979 $ 1,206

1 and 2 The State of Food Security in the World, FAO, 2014; 3 and 4 Ministry of Agricultural Development, 2016; 5, 6, 7 and 8 Agriculture Development Strategy, 2015.

5.0 Resource Requirements for NAPEstimated resource requirement for NAP is NRs. 242.5 billion (equivalent to US$ 2.3 billion) for ten years.13

Table 2: Estimated Resource Requirements for NAP (2016 – 2025) (NRs. ‘million)

Year Pillar I Pillar II Pillar III Pillar IV Pillar V Total2016 11,151.2 4,637.8 402.1 5,264.2 2,377.5 23,832.82017 11,560.7 4,812.4 417.6 5,419.7 2,377.9 24,588.42018 12,194.7 4,997.9 428.7 4,709.5 10.2 22,341.02019 11,452.0 4,970.6 445.7 4,400.7 10.7 21,279.72020 11,899.0 5,167.1 463.7 4,574.9 10.7 22,115.32021 12,500.2 5,423.5 486.9 4,806.2 11.6 23,228.32022 13,125.8 5,696.3 511.7 5,045.3 12.1 24,391.72023 13,777.5 5,980.1 536.9 5,297.4 12.6 25,604.82024 14,468.3 6,280.1 564.1 5,561.6 13.1 26,887.12025 15,196.9 6,596.6 592.2 5,841.0 14.1 28,240.6Total 127,312.5 54,562.5 4,850.0 50,925.0 4,850.0 242,500.0

13 Converted at the rate of US $ 1 = NRs. 108.


Estimated cost distributed over the years ranges from 8.9 percent to 11.9 percent.

(See Annex – III for output specific estimation of cost)

6.0 Funding StrategyThe budgetary requirement is expected to be met by seeking collaboration and commitments from the strategic development partners working for the reduction of poverty and the food and nutrition security. Additional resources will be mobilized from these development partners (including the government, international development organizations and the private sector). They will be identified on the basis of their currently ongoing support trends and future priorities.

In order to avoid foreseeable pressure on the accumulation of total resources within a short period, the NAP suggests implementation of proposed activities by setting the priorities phase wise. The short-term activities should be implemented to prepare foundation for the medium-term, which should further lead to the implementation of long-term activities to accomplish the ultimate goal of eradicating hunger by 2025.

The NAP suggests establishment of a national fund to fill the basket of proposed resource requirements. For this purpose, the NAP will apply collective fundraising campaigns among the likeminded agencies committed to work for poverty reduction, eradication of hunger and maintaining nutritional status of people. The government, on its part, will make an effort to increase its allocations for food and nutrition security, while the international development partners will be requested to mobilize increased support as far as possible as well. The NAP also emphasizes that its effort should not only concentrate on collecting more resources but also making the use of available resources efficient as well as effective.

The NAP believes on the fact that the fundraising efforts can be effective only when the multi-sector activities to be implemented are properly identified and planned with a coordinated spirit. This is important as the issue of eradicating hunger and malnutrition involve the problems to be solved beyond the capacity of a single sector. Viewing this, attempts will be made to mobilize all development partners (national and international) to reinforce their priorities towards a drive for achieving eradication of hunger and malnutrition with adequate food and nutrition security sustainably. To make this happen, the development partners will be requested to work closely in setting their intervention priorities by drawing detailed work plans with synergy for the short, medium and long term as relevant.

Figure 6: Proportion of the estimated cost required for each year


The collective launching of ZHC initiative at the global level in 2012, at the regional level in 2013 and the national level on 19 December 2014 has formed a basis to seek commitment of key stakeholders at different levels. It can be considered a positive sign for engaging various stakeholders at different levels by holding a common agenda of overcoming ZHC. It can be taken as a foundation for successfully raising the required level of resources to make the country free from poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

7.0 Implementation ArrangementsReducing poverty and hunger has remained priority in Nepal for the past many years. The MDG-1 was successful in reducing the level of poverty down to 23.8 percent. The agenda of poverty reduction is further carried forward by the Goal No. 2 of SDG, which underlines ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture. The NAP has an advantage of this priority as it contributes to build synergy in the implementation process. Equally important for NAP are the priorities set by the ADS and the MSNP (see Annex – IV for further details). Besides these positive moves, the MoAD has recently issued 27-Point agenda to make the country self-reliant on food production within the next few years. This is another advantage creating greater scope for successful implementation of NAP.

The efforts being made by Nepal to upgrade its “current status of “least developed nation” to a “developing nation” by 2022has the potential to offer favourable environment for the implementation of NAP. As the NAP has been formulated with a shared vision among the national and international development partners, it retains the hope for synergetic collaborations.

The NAP highlights coordinated efforts among the key stakeholders representing government institutions, private sector, Non-governmental Organization (NGO), Krishak Sanjal, Peasants’ Organization (PO), Cooperatives and the international development partners for successful accomplishment of its envisaged activities, outputs and outcomes proposed under each of the five Pillars. It plans sensitizing them in the ZHC spirit through interactive meetings and workshops to make their planned activities complementary by sharing the annual plans related to the eradication of hunger. Efforts will also be made to create technical and budgetary synergies wherever possible.

The implementation process will follow launching of prioritized activities at the short-term (2016-2017), medium-term (2018-2020) and the long term (2021-2025) levels. This kind of phased approach is expected to soften the burden of arranging all logistics and resources at a time.

The ZHC Secretariat established at MoAD under the supervision of HLC. The Secretariat will be made responsible for ensuring implementation of cross-sectoral tasks as planned under the NAP. It will maintain database and submit periodic progress reports to the HLC indicating changes occurred in the accomplishment of hunger and nutrition status. The Secretariat will establish Focal Group for each Pillar. The Secretariat will work in close collaboration with the HLC on Food Security and Nutrition established at the National Planning Commission.

The Agriculture Coordination Committee remained at each District Development Committee (DDC) under the Local Self Governance Act will implement the district level activities. At the Village Development Committee (VDC) level, the role of Citizen’s Forum will be mobilized.

8.0 Monitoring and Evaluation FrameworkThe NAP aims to eradicate hunger by 2025 with comprehensive efforts for ensuring every person’s right to adequate food. It plans women empowerment and family farming practices for a sustainable food system. Priority has been assigned for increased investment in agriculture. Enhancing employment opportunities,


poverty reduction, and social protection for the vulnerable groups are set as other targets to be met. These efforts have anticipated adequate food and nutrition for all – especially women from the beginning of their pregnancy till the lactating period. In order to assess how far these implemented activities have progressed, related indicators are built in the NAP matrix for each Pillar.

Under the Pillar – 1 (100% access to adequate food all year round), the targets covered are enabling people for accessing food they need through nutrition-sensitive farming, food systems development, access to market and access to productive employment opportunities, and increased affordability. This Pillar has also created scope for social protection floor by targeting food assistance and safety nets for the vulnerable groups. Boosting food supply by mobilizing the local producers and development of open, fair and well-functioning markets are also targeted. Preventing food price volatilities has remained one of its objectives. This Pillar covers monitoring indicators related to these aspects.

The Pillar – 2 (Zero stunted children less than 2 years of age) of NAP has targeted ensuring universal access to nutritious food in the 1000-day window of opportunity between the start of pregnancy and a child’s second birthday. Activities planned covered nutrition-sensitive access to food, health care, water, sanitation, and nutrition education coupled with initiatives that enable empowerment of women. Indicators against these aspects are selected as key aspects of monitoring the progress under this Pillar.

Under the Pillar – 3 (All food systems are sustainable), promoting sustainable food supply, developing agribusinesses activities, promoting climate-resilient farming practices, and maintaining cross-sectoral policy coherence (e.g. among energy, land use, water and climate change adaptations) are targeted. The monitoring indicators cover measurement of these aspects making the stakeholders accountable towards these.

The Pillar – 4 (100% increase in smallholder productivity and income) has targeted improved productivity of smallholder farms. Crop diversification and livestock raising are prioritized as a means for enhancing income and reducing poverty. Targets are set for improved to access to quality inputs and productive resources (including land, water, financial services). Increased investment in the value chain activities has been considered one of the ways of promoting subsistence agriculture into the agribusiness activities. Empowering women and promoting engagement of youths in agriculture has been prioritized. The monitoring indicators capture all these aspects for the measurement of periodic progress.

Under the Pillar – 5 (Zero loss or waste of food), the food loss occurred during storage, transport and marketing is targeted to minimize. It covers waste occurred at the producers, retailers and consumers levels. It targets creating awareness and strengthening capacity of the related food chain actors against these losses. The NAP has planned to train key actors for the adoption of improved technologies, collective pledging system, improved processing, and the techniques of preservation of consumable food.

Periodic progress will be monitored against the indicators set. Progress will be assessed looking into the move towards the potential of meeting the overall goal of zero hunger by 2025. Necessary baseline and benchmark figures will be established for comparison of periodic progress. Rooms will be left for inserting new indicators of progress, if the currently applied indicator is found inadequate to ascertain any dimension of progress. Depending upon the need, even room will be kept open for a new survey to fill the information gap.

Multi-stakeholders meetings will be organized twice a year to discuss progress, emerging issues and opportunities associated with successful implementation of NAP. It will cover potentials for sustainable food production, adequacy of institutional services provided, extent of food access improved, changes occurred in food and nutrition security status of people, and the likelihood of achieving the goal of eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2025. Discussions will also be held on whether the currently planned activities are adequate to meet the targets under each Pillar. It will also look into whether the currently set indicators are adequate to capture reporting of envisaged progress and issues related to each Pillar.


Policy dialogues will be held every year among the stakeholders representing government agencies, international development partners, producers, suppliers, consumers, cooperatives and the farmers associations. Feedbacks will be obtained on how best the targets of eradicating hunger and malnutrition can be accomplished and what policy protection measures should be adjusted.

9.0 ConclusionThe NAP emphasizes shared vision of all related stakeholders for collective actions to end hunger by 2025. It underlines the importance of participatory knowledge management process ensuring that all stakeholders will have adequate access to updated information on the poverty, hunger and nutritional status and their expected role in accomplishing the challenge of bringing the proportion of hunger to zero. In this context, the NAP will be treated as a live document focusing on the emerging needs and priorities that can lead towards the ultimate goal eradicating hunger.

The progress accomplished by NAP will be monitored regularly to follow an incremental approach in the intervention process. To make this happen, it will apply an implementation cycle of: (a) annual planning, (b) implementation of the planned activities, (c) review of the achievements made, and (d) again planning for further improvements. These steps will be followed building synergy among the key roles of various stakeholders including the government, private sector, Krishak Sanjal, PO, Cooperatives and the international development partners.


Annexes

Annex – IDevelopment Partners Supported Projects/Programs Related to Hunger Reduction and Improved Nutrition

(NRs in ‘000)

S. N. Projects / Programs2015/16

(2072/73) Budget

GoN Grant Loan Development Partners

A. Ministry of Agricultural Development1 Special Programme for Agricultural

Production 6,109,766 6,109,766

2 Agriculture Information and Communication Center 56,991 56,991

3 Kisan ka lagi Unnat Biubijan Karyakram (KUBK) 842,114 78,999 430,007 333,108 IFAD

4 Cooperative Farming, Small Irrigation, Fertilizer and Seeds Transportation Programme

653,116 556,066 97,050

5 Food Crisis Response Programme 207,496 924 206,572 WB6 Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation

Project (system modernization, agriculture Programme)

114,880 4,762 98,373 11,745 WB

7 Cotton Development Committee 25,622 25,622 8 Agriculture Development Project

(Janakpur) 106,962 106,962

9 Horticulture Development Programme 382,713 382,713

10 Potato, Vegetable and Spices Development Programme 410,450 410,450

11Nepal Trade Integration Strategy 2010 39,387 39,387

12 Agricultural Extension Programme 2,503,015 2,503,015 13 Home Garden Programme 78,727 78,727 SDC14 Pilot Programme for Climate

Resilience (PPCR) : Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards (agriculture management information system)

212,154 22,641 189,513 WB

15 Agriculture Extension and Training Center 151,140 151,140

16 Agriculture and Food Security Project 1,481,363 211,417 1,269,946 WB

17 Agriculture Research Programme 2,087,397 2,087,397 18 Fishery Development Programme 565,213 565,213 19 Agro Business Promotion and

Market Development Programme 189,509 189,509



(2072/73) Budget


20 Project for Commercial Agriculture and Trade 1,854,590 69,149 46,599 1,738,842 WB

21 Integrated Water Resource Management Project 214,905 5,490 180,825 28,590 WB

22 Community Managed Irrigated Agriculture Sector Programme (Agriculture)

57,822 6,471 51,351

23 Agriculture Research and Development Fund 70,915 70,915

24 Tea, Coffee and Cardamom Development Board 113,822 113,822

25 Soil Test and Improvement Service Programme 96,008 96,008

26 Karnali Zone Agriculture Development Project 56,000 56,000

27 Sugar and Sugarcane Development Committee 8,260 8,260

28 Food Nutrition and Technology Programme 213,973 213,973

29 Crop Development Programme 319,270 319,27030 Seed promotion and quality control

Programme 29,032 29,032

31 Agricultural Perspective Plan Monitoring and Coordination Programme

545,466 545,466

32 Crop Protection Programme 213,633 194,115 19,518 33 Raising Income of Small and

Medium Farmers Project 551,159 120,553 430,606 ADB

34 High Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP) 377,905 23,296 177,233 177,376 IFAD

35 Sericulture Development Programme 92,194 92,194 36 Industrial Entomology 117,632 117,632 37 High Mountain Agri-business and

Livelihoods Improvement (HIMALI) Project

751,933 121,525 630,408 ADB

MoAD Administrative CostAgriculture Development Ministry 213,823 213,823 Department of Agriculture 212,744 212,744 Regional Agriculture Directorates 87,090 87,090 Department of Livestock Services 165,493 165,493 Regional Livestock Directorates 60,297 60,297

B. Ministry of Livestock Development1 Livestock Service Extension

Programme 2,118,267 2,118,267

2 Avian Influenza Control Project 41,760 41,760 3 Nepal Veterinary Council 3,584 3,584 4 Livestock Health Services

Programme 391,407 391,407



(2072/73) Budget


5 Livestock Market Promotion Programme 225,639 225,639

6 National Dairy Development Board (Special Milk Production Programme)

94,693 94,693

7 Livestock Development Farms 223,134 223,1348 Livestock Development Service

Programme (Cow, Buffalo, Goat and other)

871,024 871,024

9 Livestock Service Training Center 71,091 71,091 C. Ministry of Irrigation

1Community Managed Irrigated Agriculture Area Project 1,031,622 228,836 0 802,786 ADB, OFID

2

Rehabilitation and Management Transfer of Government Irrigation Project

521,105 521,105

3Irrigation Project based on New Technology 301,814 301,814

4 Irrigation Rehabilitation Project 203,431 43,431 0 160,000 Kuwait Fund5 Rani Jamara Kulariya Irrigation

Project (including system modernization) (MoI)

1,313,018 735,801 50,517 526,700 WB

6 Surkhet Valley Irrigation Project 10,000 10,000

7Irrigation Feasibility Study and Construction Quality Programme 76,199 76,199

8 Bagmati Irrigation Project 570,463 305,283 0 265,180 Saudi Fund9 Babai Irrigation Project 755,876 755,876

10Mahakali Irrigation Project (Kanchanpur) 356,328 356,328

11 Sunsari Morang Irrigation Project 449,550 449,550 12 Praganna and Badkapath Irrigation

Project 219,993 219,993

13 Sikta Irrigation Project 1,698,500 1,427,500 0 271,000 Saudi Fund14 Medium Irrigation Project 3,047,512 3,047,512

15Karnali Zone Irrigation Development Programme 80,000 80,000

16Seti Makakali Irrigation Development Programme 180,000 180,000

17Irrigation Institutional Development Programme 91,657 91,657

18Irrigation and Water Resource Management project 1,461,361 220,411 400,544 840,406 WB

19Underground Shallow and Deep Tubewell Irrigation Project 674,182 674,182 India

20Deep and Shallow Tubewell Irrigation Project 118,390 12,191 106,199



(2072/73) Budget


D. Ministry of Health and Population1 Integrated Child Health and

Nutrition Programme

4,025,605 702,104 3,323,501

GAVI, UDAID, UNICEF,

WHO, SC, SAARC Fund,

WFP, Plan Int’l, Care

Nepal, One Heart Born

Wide E. Ministry of Education1 Food for Education Programme 496,139 119,104 377,035 WFP F. Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development1. Golden 1000 - Day Programme 3,088,587 0 1,733,644 1,354,943 WB, UNICEF2 Multi-sectoral Nutrition Programme 100,000 100,000

3Department of Local Infrastructure Development and Agriculture Road 93,708 93,708

Total 47,647,620 31,238,776 9,640,245 6,768,599

Source: Red Book FY 2015/16 (2072/73), Ministry of Finance.


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in

puts

prio

r to

the

time

of

thei

r use

NA

100%

2025

Als

o re

late

d to

Pill

ar-I

V


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.1

Impr

ove

acce

ss to

qua

lity

seed

s of c

erea

ls, p

otat

o an

d ve

geta

bles

MoA

D, D

oA, D

AD

O,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO,

coop

erat

ive

Seed

pro

duct

ion,

ce

rtifi

catio

n an

d di

strib

utio

n sy

stem

in

stitu

tiona

lized

in th

ree

ecol

ogic

al b

elts

of a

ll se

ven

stat

e

53,9

44 M

t92

,527

Mt

2025

Nat

iona

l See

d Vi

sion

2013

-202

5;

Nat

iona

l See

d Po

licy,

2056

;Se

ed A

ct a

nd S

eed

Regu

latio

nSp

ecia

l Pro

gram

me

for S

eed

Prod

uctio

n, C

ertifi

catio

n an

d D

istr

ibut

ion

Kis

an k

a La

agi U

nnat

Biu

Bija

n K

arya

kram

(KU

BK)

Food

Cri

sis R

espo

nse

Prog

ram

me,

Pota

to, V

eget

able

s and

Spi

ces

Dev

elop

men

t Pro

gram

me

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Pro

ject

(J

anak

pur)

,H

ortic

ultu

re D

evel

opm

ent

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.2

Act

ivat

e SA

ARC

See

d Ba

nkM

oAD

, NA

RCFu

nctio

nal S

AA

RC S

eed

Bank

N

AO

ne20

17SA

ARC

Pol

icy

Brie

f No.

24,

201

2

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.3

Incr

ease

tim

ely

avai

labi

lity

of fe

rtili

zers

MoA

D, A

ICL,

, ST

CL

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

(Mt).

of F

ertil

izer

s di

strib

uted

to th

e fa

rmer

s pe

r yea

r 29

8,67

7 M

t.

600,

000

Mt.

(Ure

a: 3

50,0

00

Mt.,

DA

P 22

8,00

0 M

t.M

OP

22,0

00 M

t.)

2025

Nat

iona

l Fer

tiliz

er P

olic

y, 20

02;

Spec

ial P

rogr

amm

e fo

r A

gric

ultu

ral P

rodu

ctio

n;C

oope

rativ

e Fa

rmin

g, S

mal

l Ir

riga

tion,

Fer

tiliz

er a

nd S

eeds

Tr

ansp

orta

tion

Prog

ram

me

AG

RIC

ULT

URE

D

EVEL

OPM

ENT

ST

RAT

EGY,

20

15

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.4

Prom

ote

crop

var

ietie

s su

itabl

e fo

r diff

eren

t ec

olog

ical

bel

ts

DoA

, DA

DO

, MoA

D

NA

RC, N

SC, P

rivat

e co

mpa

nies

No.

of s

eed

varie

ties

rele

ased

28

942

3 20

18N

atio

nal A

gric

ultu

re R

esea

rch

and

Dev

elop

men

t Fun

dC

rop

Dev

elop

men

t Pro

gram

me

Nep

al A

gric

ultu

re R

esea

rch

Cou

ncil

SQC

C

Kg.

of f

ertil

izer

s app

lied

per h

ecta

re96

Kg.

194

Kg.

2025

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.5

Esta

blish

nur

serie

s for

di

ffere

nt fr

uits

suita

ble

to

diffe

rent

eco

logi

cal b

elts

DoA

, DA

DO

, Fr

uit D

evel

opm

ent

Dire

ctor

ate

No.

of s

eedl

ings

pro

duce

d th

roug

h th

e nu

rser

ies

248,

400

500,

000

2020

Hor

ticul

ture

Cen

ters

and

Far

ms,

priv

ate

nurs

erie

s


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.6

Incr

ease

irrig

atio

n ar

ea

cove

rage

MoI

rr, ,

MoA

D, O

FID

, , W

B

% o

f the

cul

tivat

ed a

rea

cove

red

by y

ear r

ound

irr

igat

ion

30%

60%

2025

Irri

gatio

n Po

licy,

2060

, N

orm

s for

Agr

i. Ex

tens

ion

Prog

ram

mes

C

oope

rativ

e Fa

rmin

g, S

mal

l Ir

riga

tion,

Fer

tiliz

er a

nd S

eeds

Tr

ansp

orta

tion

Prog

ram

me;

Com

mun

ity M

anag

ed Ir

rigat

ed

Agr

o A

rea

Proj

ect;

Reha

bilit

atio

n an

d M

anag

emen

t Tra

nsfe

r of

Gov

ernm

ent I

rrig

atio

n Pr

ojec

t; Ir

riga

tion

Proj

ect b

ased

on

New

Te

chno

logy

;Ir

riga

tion

Reha

bilit

atio

n Pr

ojec

t Fo

od C

risi

s Res

pons

e Pr

ogra

mm

eA

GRI

CU

LTU

RE

DEV

ELO

PMEN

T S

TRA

TEG

Y,

2015

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.7

Supp

ort i

mpl

emen

tatio

n of

seed

vis

ion

MoA

D, N

SC, S

EAN

, SQ

CC

, Priv

ate

Sect

or

Seed

repl

acem

ent

9% C

erea

l66

% V

eget

able

s25

% C

erea

l90

% V

eget

able

s20

25

Nat

iona

l See

d Po

licy,

2056

;A

GRI

CU

LTU

RE

DEV

ELO

PMEN

T S

TRA

TEG

Y,

2015

Kat

hman

du P

ost,

Nov

embe

r 5,

2014

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.8

Prom

otio

n of

safe

pe

stic

ides

PPD

, NA

RC, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

OA

mou

nt o

f pes

ticid

e us

e pe

r Ha

396

gm a

.i./h

a

396

gm a

.i./h

aba

nned

all

orga

no-c

hlor

ine

grou

p pe

stic

ide

2025

Plan

t Pro

tect

ion

Dire

ctor

ate

Polic

yPo

licy

of th

e Pe

stic

ide

Regi

stra

tion

Offi

ce

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.9

Incr

ease

use

of f

arm

m

achi

nerie

s and

eq

uipm

ent

DoA

, DLS

, NA

RC,

MoA

D,

Rate

of m

echa

niza

tion

Tota

l 40%

(T

erai

80%

Mid

Hill

40-

60%

Mou

ntai

n 5%

)

80%

20

25

Agr

o M

echa

niza

tion

Prom

otio

n Po

licy,

2071

; Sp

ecia

l Pro

gram

me

for

Agr

icul

tura

l Pro

duct

ion;

Act

ivity

1.1

.2.1

0Tr

ain

farm

ers t

o ad

apt

with

clim

ate

chan

ge a

nd

natu

ral d

isas

ter e

ffect

sM

oAD

, MoP

E, M

oST,

N

o. o

f far

mer

s tra

ined

5,50

0 Fa

rmer

s18

,750

Far

mer

s20

20

Nat

iona

l Ada

ptat

ion

Prog

ram

me

of A

ctio

n (N

APA

)Lo

cal A

dapt

atio

n Pl

an o

f Act

ion

(LA

PA)

Clim

ate

Cha

nge

Polic

y, 20

67Pi

lot P

rogr

amm

e fo

r Clim

ate

Resil

ienc

e (P

PCR)

: Bu

ildin

g Re

silie

nce

to C

limat

e Re

late

d H

azar

ds (a

gric

ultu

re m

anag

emen

t in

form

atio

n sy

stem

)Ba

se li

ne st

udy

of P

PCR

Ada

ptat

ion

of S

mal

lhol

der i

n A

gric

ultu

re (A

SHA

)


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

put -

1.1

.3In

crea

sed

acce

ss to

live

stoc

k pr

oduc

tsN

o. o

f liv

esto

ck h

eads

ra

ised

by

the

farm

ers

Als

o re

late

d to

Pill

ar-I

V

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.1

Incr

ease

milk

pro

duct

ion

MoL

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

, NC

DB,

ND

DB

Mt.

of m

ilk p

rodu

ctio

n1.

7 M

illio

n M

t.3.

4 M

illio

n M

t.20

25D

airy

Dev

elop

men

t Pol

icy,

2064

; N

atio

nal D

airy

Dev

elop

men

t Bo

ard

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.2

Impr

ove

qual

ity o

f ani

mal

fe

ed fo

r inc

reas

ed m

ilk

prod

uctio

n

MoL

D, P

rivat

e Fe

ed

Com

pani

es, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

% o

f yie

ld im

prov

ed d

ue to

th

e us

e of

qua

lity

anim

al

feed

N

A50

%20

25

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.3

Incr

ease

egg

pro

duct

ion

MoL

D, p

rivat

e se

ctor

N

o of

egg

pro

duce

/yea

r 88

0 M

illio

n1,

600

Mill

ion

2025

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.4

Incr

ease

goa

t far

min

gM

oLD

No.

of g

oats

rais

ed10

.2 M

illio

n15

Mill

ion

2025

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.5

Prom

ote

rais

ing

of

impr

oved

pou

ltry

and

anim

al

DLS

, M

oLD

, GA

FSP,

W

B, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

, NC

DB

No.

of i

mpr

oved

pou

ltry

and

anim

al ra

ised

by

the

farm

ers

48 M

illio

n po

ultr

y7.

2 M

illio

n ca

ttle

5.2

Mill

ion

buffa

lo

90 M

illio

n po

ultr

y2

Mill

ion

impr

oved

cat

tle

2 M

illio

n im

prov

ed b

uffal

o

2025

Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent P

olic

y, 20

64;

Poul

try

Polic

y, 20

68;

Rang

elan

d Po

licy,

2068

Agr

icul

ture

and

Foo

d Se

curi

ty

Proj

ect

Live

stoc

k Se

rvic

e Ex

tens

ion

Prog

ram

me

AG

RIC

ULT

URE

D

EVEL

OPM

ENT

ST

RAT

EGY,

20

15

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.6

Build

cap

acity

of s

mal

l pr

oduc

ers t

o in

crea

se

lives

tock

pro

duct

ion

MoL

D

No.

of s

mal

l pro

duce

rs

trai

ned

NA

20,0

00 P

erso

ns20

25

Live

stoc

k se

rvic

e Tr

aini

ng C

ente

r’Li

vest

ock

Serv

ice

Exte

nsio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e

No.

of s

mal

l pro

duce

rs

able

to a

cces

s sof

t loa

nsN

A50

,000

H

ouse

hold

s20

25

No.

of s

mal

l pro

duce

rs

able

to a

cces

s cap

ital

gran

ts fo

r pur

chas

ing

lives

tock

/yea

r

NA

15,0

00

Hou

seho

lds

2025

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.7

Incr

ease

supp

ly o

f fee

d

MoL

D, F

eed

Prod

ucin

g C

ompa

ny, N

CD

B,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

No.

of s

mal

l sca

le fe

ed

indu

stry

est

ablis

hed

in th

e C

omm

unity

NA

250

Uni

ts20

25Ra

ngel

and

Polic

y, 20

68Li

vest

ock

Serv

ice

Exte

nsio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.8

Incr

ease

pro

duct

ion

of

fodd

er

DLS

, MoL

DN

o. o

f fod

der t

rees

new

ly

plan

ted

NA

One

Mill

ion

Tree

s20

25Ra

ngel

and

Polic

y, 20

68;

Live

stoc

k Se

rvic

e Ex

tens

ion

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.9

Impr

ove

prev

entiv

e an

d cu

rativ

e an

imal

hea

lth

serv

ices

DLS

, MoA

D, M

oLD

No.

of d

istr

icts

cov

ered

by

foot

and

mou

th d

isea

se

cont

rol

75 D

istr

icts

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Cro

p an

d Li

vest

ock

Insu

ranc

e Li

vest

ock

Serv

ice

Exte

nsio

n Pr

ogra

mm

eN

o. o

f dis

tric

ts c

over

ed

by fo

ot A

vian

influ

enza

co

ntro

lN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25Av

ian

Influ

enza

Con

trol

Pro

ject

(A

ICP)


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.1

0

Incr

ease

app

licat

ion

of IC

T to

impr

ove

the

lives

tock

ext

ensio

n se

rvic

es

MoL

D

No.

of e

xten

sion

mak

ing

use

of IC

T se

rvic

es in

re

latio

n to

thei

r liv

esto

ck

farm

act

iviti

es

30%

ext

ensio

n w

orke

r10

0% IC

T U

sers

2025

Agr

icul

ture

Res

earc

h Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.1

1Sc

ale-

up li

vest

ock

farm

s fo

r inc

reas

ed p

rodu

ctio

n M

oLD

, DLS

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

, NC

DB

No.

of l

ives

tock

farm

s sc

aled

-up

NA

1,00

0 Fa

rms

2025

Live

stoc

k D

evel

opm

ent F

arm

s

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.1

2:Tr

ain

farm

ers o

n co

ld a

nd

war

m w

ater

fish

farm

ing

MoA

DN

o. o

f fish

farm

er tr

aine

dN

A30

0 Fa

rmer

s

Act

ivity

1.1

.3.1

3In

crea

se fi

sh p

rodu

ctio

nD

oA, N

CD

BQ

uant

ity o

f fish

pro

duce

d/ye

ar57

,250

Mt.

90,0

00 M

t.20

25A

ppro

ved

Aqu

acul

ture

Pol

icy,

DoA

Out

put -

1.1

.4In

crea

sed

acce

ss to

pro

duct

ion

infr

astr

uctu

re

No.

of m

arke

t she

ds b

uilt

NA

750

Uni

ts20

25A

gric

ultu

re D

evel

opm

ent

Stra

tegy

, 201

5

Als

o re

late

d to

Pill

ar-I

V

Cap

acity

of s

tora

ge

faci

litie

s (M

t)11

,000

Mt.

20,0

00 M

t.20

25

Km

of a

gric

ultu

re ro

ad

built

and

mai

ntai

ned

53,0

00 K

m68

,000

Km

.20

25

AG

RIC

ULT

URE

D

EVEL

OPM

ENT

ST

RAT

EGY,

20

15Th

irte

enth

Pla

n (2

070/

71-

2072

/73)

Act

ivity

1.1

.4.1

Mai

ntai

n tr

aditi

onal

ir

rigat

ion

syst

ems

MoA

D,

No.

of t

radi

tiona

l irr

igat

ion

syst

ems

mai

ntai

ned

2,75

9 U

nits

5000

Uni

ts20

25

Irri

gatio

n Po

licy,

2060

;C

oope

rativ

e Fa

rmin

g, S

mal

l Ir

riga

tion,

Fer

tiliz

er a

nd S

eeds

Tr

ansp

orta

tion

Prog

ram

me;

Food

Cri

sis R

espo

nse

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

1.1

.4.2

Ado

pt ra

in w

ater

ha

rves

ting

syst

emM

oAD

, NC

DB

No.

of r

ainw

ater

har

vest

sy

stem

inst

alle

d13

6 U

nits

1000

Uni

ts20

25

Irri

gatio

n Po

licy,

2060

;C

oope

rativ

e Fa

rmin

g, S

mal

l Ir

riga

tion,

Fer

tiliz

er a

nd S

eeds

Tr

ansp

orta

tion

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

1.1

.4.3

.Pr

omot

e M

ultip

le U

se o

f W

ater

Sys

tem

(MU

S)M

oAD

No.

of w

ater

use

effi

cien

cy

prog

ram

mes

impl

emen

ted

in th

e di

stric

ts

246

Syst

ems

(in 2

9 D

istr

icts

)75

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Act

ivity

1.1

.4.4

Prom

ote

leas

ing

of fa

llow

la

nd fo

r cul

tivat

ion

MoF

SC, M

oLRM

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

% o

f fal

low

land

cul

tivat

ed

unde

r the

fixe

d te

rm

cont

ract

NA

25%

2025

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

Act

ivity

1.1

.4.5

Prov

ide

land

ban

king

and

le

asin

g fa

cilit

ies

MoA

D, M

oLRM

Land

Lea

se A

ct d

evel

oped

Land

ban

king

faci

litie

s pr

ovid

edN

A

Land

Lea

se

Act

and

Lan

d Ba

nkin

g fa

cilit

ies

in p

lace

2018

AG

RIC

ULT

URE

D

EVEL

OPM

ENT

ST

RAT

EGY,

20

15

Out

put -

1.1

.5Li

nkag

e be

twee

n th

e re

sear

ch a

nd e

xten

sion

serv

ices

stre

ngth

ened

% o

f suc

cess

ful r

esea

rch

tria

ls ha

nded

ove

r to

the

farm

ers’

field

N

A10

0%20

25A

lso

rela

ted

to P

illar

-IV

Act

ivity

1.1

.5.1

Use

of I

CT

on

agric

ultu

re

exte

nsio

n D

AD

O, N

eKSA

PN

o. o

f dis

tric

ts a

pply

ing

agro

-adv

isor

y se

rvic

es

usin

g IC

TN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25A

ICC


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

1.1

.5.2

Pr

omot

e A

gro-

call

Cen

tres

in a

ll pr

ovin

ces

MoA

D, A

ICC

No.

of c

all c

entr

es

esta

blish

edN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Act

ivity

1.1

.5.3

:

Prom

ote

mob

ile

appl

icat

ions

for t

he

diss

emin

atio

n of

pric

e in

form

atio

n re

late

d to

the

agro

- com

mod

ities

MoA

D, M

oLD

% o

f far

mer

s and

trad

ers

mak

ing

use

of m

obile

ap

plic

atio

ns

Prac

tice

Exis

ts

(e.g

. SM

ART

K

rish

i)

50%

Far

mer

s and

Tr

ader

s in

Each

D

istr

ict

2025

Out

put -

1.1

.6W

omen

’s ro

le in

pro

duct

ive

activ

ities

enh

ance

d%

of w

omen

und

erta

king

jo

bs re

cogn

ized

as m

ale-

frie

ndly

cat

egor

yN

A25

%20

25A

lso

rela

ted

to P

illar

-IV

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.1

Incr

ease

wom

en’s

acce

ss

to p

rodu

ctiv

e as

set b

ase

MoA

D, M

oWC

SW,

NC

DB

% o

f inc

reas

e in

the

land

ar

ea o

wne

d by

wom

en

(incl

udin

g th

e pa

rcel

s ta

ken

for c

onta

ct fa

rmin

g)

10%

50%

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

; N

epal

Agr

icul

ture

Ext

ensio

n St

rate

gy;

Nat

iona

l Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent

Boar

d (S

peci

al M

ilk P

rodu

ctio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e)

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.2

Prom

ote

gend

er-

resp

onsiv

e tr

aini

ng a

nd

exte

nsio

n se

rvic

es

MoW

CSW

, MoA

D,

NW

C, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

%. o

f wom

en h

avin

g ac

cess

to

trai

ning

and

ext

ensio

nN

A50

%20

25

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

; N

epal

Agr

icul

ture

Ext

ensio

n St

rate

gy;

Nat

iona

l Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent

Boar

d (S

peci

al M

ilk P

rodu

ctio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e)

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.3

Prom

ote

wom

en-f

riend

ly

agric

ultu

ral t

echn

olog

ies

and

prac

tices

MoW

CSW

, MoA

D,

NC

DB

%. o

f wom

en a

pply

ing

agric

ultu

ral t

echn

olog

ies

and

prac

tices

suita

ble

to

thei

r com

pete

nce

NA

50%

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

; N

epal

Agr

icul

ture

Ext

ensio

n St

rate

gy;

Nat

iona

l Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent

Boar

d (S

peci

al M

ilk P

rodu

ctio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e)

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.4

Stre

ngth

en a

gro-

gend

er

data

base

for p

lann

ing

and

impl

emen

tatio

n of

ag

ricu

ltura

l act

iviti

es

MoA

D

No.

of d

istr

icts

m

aint

aini

ng a

gro-

gend

er

data

base

for p

lann

ing,

im

plem

entin

g an

d m

onito

ring

act

iviti

es

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2020

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

; N

epal

Agr

icul

ture

Ext

ensio

n St

rate

gyA

ffirm

ativ

e ac

tions

co

nduc

ted

for w

omen

’s re

crui

tmen

t as f

acili

tato

rs,

exte

nsio

n w

orke

rs, s

ocia

l m

obili

zers

etc

.)

NA

Impl

emen

tatio

n of

Affi

rmat

ive

Act

ions

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.5

Incr

ease

land

regi

stra

tion

on w

omen

’s na

me

MoL

RM, M

oAD

Perc

ent o

f lan

d re

gist

ered

on

wom

en’s

nam

e15

%30

%20

25A

gric

ultu

re D

evel

opm

ent

Stra

tegy

, 201

5

Act

ivity

1.1

.6.6

Incr

ease

out

reac

h of

ex

tens

ion

serv

ices

to

wom

en h

eade

d ho

useh

olds

MoA

D, M

LD

Out

reac

h of

ext

ensio

n se

rvic

es in

crea

sed

on w

omen

hea

ded

hous

ehol

ds

28.2

%50

%20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

put -

1.1

.7C

ultiv

atio

n of

cro

ps p

rom

oted

by

thei

r sui

tabi

lity

to d

iffer

ent e

colo

gica

l con

ditio

ns

% o

f far

m h

ouse

hold

s gr

owin

g cl

imat

e-fr

iend

ly

crop

s and

rais

ing

clim

ate-

suita

ble

lives

tock

bre

ed

NA

75%

2025

Als

o re

late

d to

Pill

ar-I

V

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.1

Iden

tify

pock

et a

reas

fo

r the

spec

ializ

ed

crop

s bas

ed o

n th

eir

com

para

tive

adva

ntag

e

DoA

, DA

DO

, DLS

, ,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

No.

of p

ocke

t are

as

iden

tified

in th

e di

stric

ts

for s

peci

aliz

ed c

rops

NA

1500

poc

ket

2025

MO

AD

27

Poin

ts C

omm

itmen

tA

GRI

CU

LTU

RE

DEV

ELO

PMEN

T S

TRA

TEG

Y,

2015

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.2

One

-vill

age-

one

-pro

duct

(O

VO

P)M

OA

D D

oA, F

NC

CI,

AEC

, NC

DB

No.

of d

istr

ict c

over

ed32

Dis

tric

ts75

Vill

ages

2025

One

-Vill

age-

One

Pro

duct

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.3

One

dis

tric

t one

pro

duct

(O

DO

P)D

oA, A

EC, F

NC

CI,

NC

DB

No.

of d

istr

icts

cov

ered

34 D

istr

icts

75D

istr

icts

2025

One

-Dis

tric

ts-O

ne P

rodu

ct

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.4

Revi

ve c

ultiv

atio

n of

ne

glec

ted

but n

utri

tive

trad

ition

al /

indi

geno

us

crop

s in

view

of t

heir

rich

nutr

itiou

s val

ues

DoA

, DA

DO

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

, NC

DB

No.

of f

arm

ers r

eviv

ing

culti

vatio

n of

pre

viou

sly

aban

done

d nu

triti

on- r

ich

trad

ition

al c

rops

NA

550,

000

Farm

H

ouse

hold

s20

25

Act

ivity

1.1

.7.5

Prom

ote

gene

tic

cons

erva

tion

prac

tices

NA

RC, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of f

arm

hou

seho

lds

trai

ned

for t

he

cons

erva

tion

of g

enet

ic

mat

eria

ls

NA

9,37

5 Fa

rm

Hou

seho

lds

2025

Nat

iona

l See

d Po

licy,

2056

Seed

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Qua

lity

Con

trol

Pro

gram

me

Out

com

e –

1.2

Ade

quat

e aff

orda

ble

nutr

itiou

s foo

d av

aila

ble

for

equi

tabl

e ut

iliza

tion

% o

f hou

seho

lds a

ble

to

proc

ure

food

add

ition

al to

th

eir h

ome

prod

uctio

n in

ca

se o

f sho

rtag

e

NA

100%

2025

Out

put -

1.2

.1H

ouse

hold

inco

mes

of t

he p

oor e

nhan

ced

for f

ood

affor

dabi

lity

% o

f poo

r hou

seho

lds

decr

ease

d23

.8%

0%20

25

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.1

Incr

ease

acc

ess t

o em

ploy

men

t opp

ortu

nitie

s by

div

ersif

ying

pro

duct

ive

enga

gem

ents

in th

e fa

rm,

off-f

arm

and

non

-far

m

sect

ors

MoA

D, D

LS, D

oA,

MoF

SC, D

oF N

CD

B

Hou

seho

lds e

ngag

ed in

ne

w fa

rm, o

ff-fa

rm, a

gro-

fore

stry

and

non

-far

m

activ

ities

NA

50,0

0020

25

Agr

ibus

ines

s Pro

mot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06A

gric

ultu

re In

form

atio

n an

d C

omm

unic

atio

n C

ente

r

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.2

Prom

ote

mar

ket

orie

ntat

ion

amon

g th

e fa

rmer

s for

co

mm

erci

aliz

atio

n of

ag

ricu

lture

CSI

DB,

DoA

, DC

SI,

DLS

, MoA

D, F

NC

CI

No.

of f

arm

ers t

rain

ed

and

enga

ged

in th

e ag

ribu

sines

s val

ue c

hain

s (s

uppl

ying

inpu

ts fo

r pr

oduc

tion,

pro

cess

ing

of p

rodu

cts,

tran

spor

ting

prod

ucts

to th

e m

arke

t, an

d tr

adin

g et

c.)

NA

18,7

50 F

arm

ers

2025

Agr

ibus

ines

s Pro

mot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06A

gric

ultu

ral P

ersp

ectiv

e Pl

an

Mon

itori

ng a

nd C

oord

inat

ion

Prog

ram

me

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Mar

ket D

evel

opm

ent P

rogr

amm

e

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.3

Min

imiz

e pr

ice

vola

tility

ri

sks

DoA

, Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO, N

CD

B

No.

of d

istr

icts

regu

latin

g m

arke

ts to

redu

ce p

rice

vola

tility

risk

sN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.4

Con

trol

hoa

rdin

g (a

rtifi

cial

supp

ly g

ap) o

f pr

oduc

ts in

the

mar

ket

MoC

, MoS

, NC

DB,

K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of d

istr

icts

pun

ishin

g ar

tifici

al h

oard

ing

of

agri

cultu

ral p

rodu

cts

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.5

Iden

tify

trad

e ba

rrie

rs a

nd

avoi

d th

e re

stri

ctio

ns

MoC

, Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

Trad

e ba

rrie

rs c

ausin

g pr

ice

impl

icat

ions

id

entifi

ed a

nd re

mov

ed

with

rela

ted

enac

tmen

ts

NA

Regu

latio

ns

App

lied

2020

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.6

Ensu

re e

qual

wag

e ra

te

for w

omen

agr

icul

tura

l w

orke

rs

MoW

CSW

, MoA

D,

NW

C, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

% o

f wom

en o

btai

ning

eq

ual w

age

rate

for s

imila

r ty

pe o

f agr

icul

tura

l wor

k do

ne

NA

100%

2018

Labo

ur a

nd E

mpl

oym

ent P

olic

y, 20

12

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.7

Prom

ote

self-

empl

oym

ent

focu

sed

agro

-bas

ed

ente

rpri

ses i

n gr

oups

DC

SI, M

oI, M

oLE,

N

CD

BN

o. o

f gro

up b

ased

new

en

terp

rise

s est

ablis

hed

NA

750

Gro

up

Ente

rpri

ses

2025

Labo

ur a

nd E

mpl

oym

ent P

olic

y, 20

12 ;

Agr

icul

ture

Info

rmat

ion

and

Com

mun

icat

ion

Cen

ter

Act

ivity

1.2

.1.8

Impl

emen

t 100

- da

y em

ploy

men

t gua

rant

ee

sche

me

for p

eopl

e liv

ing

in d

ifficu

lt co

nditi

ons

MoL

E, N

PCN

o. o

f dis

tric

ts

impl

emen

ting

empl

oym

ent g

uara

ntee

of

100

days

sche

me

6 D

istr

icts

32

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Labo

ur a

nd E

mpl

oym

ent P

olic

y, 20

12

Agr

icul

ture

Info

rmat

ion

and

Com

mun

icat

ion

Cen

ter

Out

put -

1.2

.2Fo

od d

istr

ibut

ion

syst

em st

reng

then

ed to

ens

ure

loca

l ava

ilabi

lity

% o

f hou

seho

lds

adeq

uate

ly a

cces

sing

food

av

aila

ble

in th

e m

arke

t as

and

whe

n ne

eded

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.1

Prov

ide

tran

spor

tatio

n su

bsid

y fo

r the

supp

ly o

f fo

od g

rain

s to

food

defi

cit

dist

ricts

MoA

D, M

oPE,

MoS

T

No

of d

istr

ict p

rovi

de

subs

idy

in th

e tr

ansp

orta

tion

cost

for t

he

rem

ote

area

s

30A

s per

the

need

20

25N

epal

Foo

d C

orpo

ratio

n

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.2

Mai

ntai

n bu

ffer s

tock

as

pre

pare

dnes

s for

em

erge

ncy

resp

onse

MoA

D M

OS

Mt.

of fo

od g

rain

s sto

red

in th

e bu

ffer s

tock

w

areh

ouse

in

the

food

defi

cit d

istr

icts

fo

r em

erge

ncy

resp

onse

30,0

00 M

t. 1

00,0

00 M

t 20

25N

atio

nal A

gric

ultu

re P

olic

y, 20

61M

OA

D, N

FC

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.3

Ope

n ne

w fo

od g

rain

ou

tlets

to e

nsur

e re

gula

r su

pply

in th

e de

ficit

area

s

NFC

, N

o. o

f foo

d de

ficit

dist

ricts

op

erat

ing

coop

erat

ive

shop

sN

A32

Dis

tric

ts

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2061

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.4

Mai

ntai

n bu

ffer s

tock

of

seed

NSC

L, S

EAN

No.

of d

istr

icts

m

aint

aini

ng se

ed st

ock

for

supp

ly in

the

culti

vatio

n se

ason

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Nat

iona

l See

d Po

licy,

2056

Seed

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Qua

lity

Con

trol

Pro

gram

me

Act

ivity

1.2

.2.5

Esta

blish

and

Act

ivat

e SA

ARC

Foo

d Ba

nk (a

s per

th

e ag

reem

ent s

igne

d on

3

Apr

il 20

07)

MoC

, MoA

DSA

ARC

Foo

d Ba

nk m

ade

oper

atio

nal

NA

One

2017

Agr

eem

ent o

n Es

tabl

ishin

g th

e SA

ARC

Foo

d Ba

nk

PILL

AR

– II

ZERO

ST

UN

TED

CH

ILD

REN

LES

S T

HA

N 2

YEA

RS O

F A

GE


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

com

e - 2

.1

Nut

ritio

n se

nsiti

ve a

gric

ultu

ral s

yste

m p

rom

oted

Incr

ease

in n

utrit

iona

l di

vers

ity o

f cro

ppin

g sy

stem

N

A10

0%20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

an

Out

put –

2.1

.1Lo

cal f

ood

prod

uctio

n sy

stem

div

ersifi

ed w

ith

focu

s on

unco

nven

tiona

l nut

ritio

us c

rops

, fru

its,

vege

tabl

es fo

r the

ir in

crea

sed

cons

umpt

ion

% o

f far

mer

s gro

win

g m

ultip

le n

utrit

ious

cro

ps,

frui

ts a

nd v

eget

able

sN

A10

0%20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

an

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.1

Trai

n th

e fr

ontli

ne

agri

cultu

re e

xten

sion

staff

on

nut

ritio

n se

nsiti

ve

agri

cultu

re in

terv

entio

ns

(e.g

. for

pra

ctic

ing

nutr

ition

ally

impo

rtan

t cr

ops a

nd li

vest

ock

incl

udin

g m

ixed

cro

ppin

g/fa

rmin

g, ro

tatio

nal

crop

ping

etc

.)

MoA

D, M

oLD

, MoH

No.

of a

gric

ultu

re a

nd

heal

th fu

nctio

narie

s tr

aine

d 20

03,

750

Pers

ons

2025

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.2

Trai

n sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s fo

r sel

ectiv

e pr

oduc

tion

of n

utrit

ion-

dens

e fo

od

crop

s, ve

geta

bles

and

fr

uits

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of p

erso

ns tr

aine

d in

co

mpa

rativ

e nu

triti

ous

prop

ertie

s bas

ed c

rops

, ve

geta

bles

and

frui

ts

suita

ble

to th

e lo

cal

grow

ing

cond

ition

s

NA

3,75

0 Pe

rson

s20

25

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.3

Mak

e fa

rmer

s aw

are

abou

t the

pro

duct

ion

dive

rsifi

catio

n an

d im

port

ance

of

nutr

ition

ally

rich

cro

ps,

vege

tabl

es a

nd fr

uits

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of f

arm

ers o

rient

ed20

03,

750

Pers

ons

2025

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.4

Mak

e ho

useh

old

mem

bers

aw

are

of th

e im

port

ance

of f

ood

base

d nu

triti

on in

clud

ing

the

diet

ary

dive

rsifi

catio

n op

port

uniti

es a

nd u

se o

f bi

o-fo

rtifi

ed c

rops

MoA

D,

MoH

, Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

No.

of w

omen

gro

up

orie

nted

abo

ut th

e im

port

ance

of f

ood

base

d nu

triti

on a

nd th

e ro

les

diet

ary

dive

rsifi

catio

n an

d bi

o-fo

rtifi

catio

n ca

n pl

ay

in th

is re

gard

35 D

istr

icts

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.5

Mak

e ho

useh

old

mem

bers

nu

triti

on se

nsiti

ve in

se

lect

ing

the

food

men

uM

oAD

, MoH

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

No.

of d

istr

icts

cov

ered

fo

r sen

sitiz

atio

n of

ho

useh

old

mem

bers

abo

ut

the

nutr

itiou

s pro

pert

ies

of d

aily

con

sum

able

ba

sic fo

od it

ems (

mix

of

cere

al c

rops

, tre

e cr

ops,

vege

tabl

es a

nd li

vest

ock

prod

ucts

)

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

put –

2.1

.2Lo

cal

prod

uctio

n of

an

imal

so

urce

pr

oduc

ts

enha

nced

for

con

sum

ptio

n by

the

sm

allh

olde

r fa

mily

mem

bers

% o

f hou

seho

lds

adeq

uate

ly a

cces

sing

and

cons

umin

g an

imal

sour

ce

prod

ucts

NA

100

2025

Act

ivity

2.1

.2.1

Trai

n fa

rmer

s on

live

stoc

k pr

oduc

tion

focu

sing

on

poul

try,

rabb

it,

dair

y co

w/b

uffal

o, g

oat

and

fish

farm

ing

MoL

D, M

oH, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O N

CD

BN

o. o

f liv

esto

ck ra

isin

g fa

rmer

s tra

ined

200

3,60

0 Fa

rmer

s20

25

Act

ivity

2.1

.2.2

:

Trai

n th

e fr

ontli

ne

lives

tock

ex

tens

ion

wor

kers

on

pr

omot

ing

lives

tock

pr

oduc

tion

of

high

nut

ritio

nal v

alue

MoL

D, M

oAD

, MoH

No.

of f

ront

line

lives

tock

fu

nctio

narie

s tra

ined

200

3,75

0 Pe

rson

s20

25

Act

ivity

2.1

.1.3

Mak

e fa

rmer

s aw

are

abou

t th

e nu

triti

onal

ben

efit o

f an

imal

sour

ce fo

ods a

nd

enco

urag

e ra

isin

g an

imal

s

MoL

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of d

istr

icts

mak

ing

the

farm

ers a

war

e of

the

impo

rtan

ce o

f con

sum

ing

anim

al so

urce

food

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2018

Out

com

e - 2

.2

Enha

nced

acc

ess a

nd u

tiliz

atio

n of

safe

, nut

ritio

us

and

dive

rse

food

am

ong

the

poor

hou

seho

lds

follo

wed

by

impr

oved

hea

lth a

nd n

utrit

ion

serv

ices

Die

tary

div

ersit

y at

HH

leve

l/Ind

ivid

ual l

evel

HH

con

sum

ptio

n of

m

icro

nutr

ient

rich

ve

geta

bles

, fru

its a

nd

anim

al so

urce

food

s

NA

100%

2025

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

anFo

od S

afet

y Po

licy

Nat

iona

l Hea

lth P

olic

y 20

14N

A10

0%20

25

Out

put –

2.2

.1

Stre

ngth

ened

cap

acity

of f

arm

ers,

mot

her g

roup

s an

d sm

all c

oope

rativ

es o

n th

e st

orag

e an

d pr

oces

sing

of fo

od in

clud

ing

thei

r pre

para

tion

and

pres

erva

tion

at th

e co

mm

unity

leve

lP

No.

of f

arm

ers,

mot

her

grou

p m

embe

rs a

nd

coop

erat

ive

staff

usin

g im

prov

ed st

orag

e

NA

375

Gro

ups

2025

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

anFo

od S

afet

y Po

licy

Nat

iona

l Hea

lth P

olic

y 20

14

Prop

ortio

n of

gro

ups w

ith

proc

essin

g, p

rese

rvat

ion

and

prep

arat

ion

of fo

odPe

rcen

tage

of i

nstit

utio

nal

deliv

ery

incr

ease

d

ropo

rtio

n of

wom

en a

nd

child

ren

goin

g to

HF

for

nutr

ition

cou

nsel

ling

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

Enga

ge sm

allh

olde

r ho

useh

olds

in h

omes

tead

fo

od p

rodu

ctio

n

DoA

, DoL

S, M

oAD

, M

oLD

, Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO, N

CD

B

% o

f hou

seho

lds e

ngag

ed

in h

omes

tead

food

pr

oduc

tion

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.2

Prom

ote

smal

l ani

mal

ra

isin

g (b

acky

ard

poul

try,

dair

y, go

at )

in

the

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ho

useh

olds

DLS

, MoL

D, D

aDC

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

,N

CD

B

No.

of p

oor H

Hs w

ith

smal

l ani

mal

sN

A10

,000

H

ouse

hold

s20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.3

Prom

ote

nutr

ition

al

scho

ol g

arde

nD

oA, M

oAD

, MoE

, M

oHN

o. o

f sch

ool g

arde

ns

esta

blish

edN

A75

0 Sc

hool

G

arde

ns20

20

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.4

Prom

ote

scho

ol fe

edin

g an

d pa

cked

lunc

h pr

ogra

mm

esM

oE, M

oHN

o. o

f sch

ools

cove

red

by th

e sc

hool

feed

ing

prog

ram

mes

11 D

istr

icts

32 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.5

:

Dev

elop

trai

ning

pac

kage

on

har

mon

ized

food

pr

oces

sing,

pre

serv

atio

n an

d sa

fety

for n

utrit

ion

and

trai

n th

e re

late

d va

lue

chai

n ac

tors

MoA

D, M

oLD

No.

of v

alue

cha

in a

ctor

s tr

aine

d N

A3,

750

Valu

e C

hain

Act

ors

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.6

:

Trai

n fa

rmer

s/co

nsum

ers

by m

eans

of a

cas

cade

of

trai

ning

(MTo

T, T

oT

and

Farm

er /

Con

sum

er

Trai

ning

) and

the

staff

fr

om d

iffer

ent s

ecto

rs

(hea

lth, a

gric

ultu

re,

lives

tock

, wom

en

deve

lopm

ent,

educ

atio

n),

heal

th w

orke

rs, F

emal

e C

omm

unity

Hea

lth

Volu

ntee

rs, a

gric

ultu

re/

lives

tock

ext

ensio

n w

orke

rs, w

omen

de

velo

pmen

t wor

kers

with

th

e ha

rmon

ized

trai

ning

pa

ckag

e de

velo

ped

unde

r th

e A

ctiv

ity: 2

.2.1

.5

DoA

, DD

C, V

DC

No.

of t

each

ers,

cook

an

d st

uden

ts tr

aine

d on

he

alth

y di

et1,

800

Pers

ons

3,75

0 Fa

rmer

s /

Con

sum

ers

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.7

Revi

ew, r

evis

e, u

pdat

e an

d ap

ply

the

rule

s, re

gula

tions

and

act

s on

the

food

safe

ty p

ract

ices

DFT

QC

, MoA

D

No.

of r

ules

and

re

gula

tions

upd

ated

for

appl

icat

ion

to e

nsur

e fo

od

safe

ty

NA

Upd

ates

and

ap

plic

atio

n of

re

gula

tions

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.8

Mak

e co

nsum

ers a

war

e w

ith c

ampa

igns

on

food

sa

fety

and

qua

lity

MoA

D, D

FTQ

C#

Awar

enes

s pro

gram

mes

co

nduc

ted

on fo

od sa

fety

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.9

Esta

blish

Con

sum

er

Com

plai

nts U

nit i

n ea

ch

office

of t

he D

epar

tmen

t of

Foo

d Te

chno

logy

and

Q

ualit

y C

ontr

ol

DFT

QC

No.

of d

istr

icts

es

tabl

ishin

g co

nsum

er

com

plai

nt c

ente

rN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

28N

o of

com

plai

nts r

elat

ed

to fo

od sa

fety

rece

ived

fr

om c

onsu

mer

s and

ac

tion

take

n


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

0

Con

duct

adv

ocac

y, aw

aren

ess a

nd e

duca

tion

activ

ities

on

nutr

ition

, fo

od sa

fety

and

hyg

iene

at

all l

evel

s

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

No.

of d

istr

icts

runn

ing

advo

cacy

cam

paig

ns fo

r aw

aren

ess r

aisin

gN

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

1

Stre

ngth

en th

e ca

paci

ty

and

mod

ality

of

mon

itorin

g on

food

sa

fety

and

qua

lity

in

coor

dina

tion

with

oth

er

sect

ors

DFT

QC

, MoA

D

No.

of d

istr

icts

es

tabl

ishin

g fo

od sa

fety

an

d qu

ality

mon

itorin

g st

ruct

ure

in c

oord

inat

ion

with

inte

rrel

ated

sect

ors

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

2

Dev

elop

and

enf

orce

m

anda

tory

food

safe

ty

and

hygi

ene

requ

irem

ents

fo

r loc

al v

endo

rs, s

mal

l in

dust

ries a

nd re

stau

rant

s

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

Gui

delin

e fo

r mon

itorin

g fo

od sa

fety

and

hyg

iene

de

velo

ped

and

appl

ied

NA

Gui

delin

e20

20

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

3

Con

duct

per

iodi

c su

rvey

fo

r situ

atio

n of

food

safe

ty

and

qual

ity a

t nat

iona

l le

vel

DFT

QC

, MoA

D, C

BSN

o. o

f sur

veys

con

duct

ed

NA

5 Su

rvey

s20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

4

Dev

elop

trai

ning

man

uals

, fa

cilit

ator

s’ gu

idel

ines

an

d or

gani

ze tr

aini

ng fo

r fa

rmer

s with

em

phas

is

on th

e pa

rtic

ipat

ion

of

wom

en fa

rmer

s on

food

pr

oces

sing,

pre

para

tion

and

pres

erva

tion

at th

e co

mm

unity

leve

l

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

No.

of t

rain

ing

man

uals

, fa

cilit

ator

s gui

de a

nd

oper

atio

nal g

uide

line

deve

lope

d

NA

Man

ual a

nd

Gui

de20

20

Act

ivity

2.2

.1.1

5Es

tabl

ish c

omm

unity

ba

sed

food

pre

serv

atio

n an

d pr

oces

sing

unit

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

No.

of c

omm

unity

ba

sed

food

pre

serv

atio

n an

d pr

oces

sing

units

es

tabl

ished

NA

750

Uni

ts20

20

Out

put –

2.2

.2

Nut

ritio

n ed

ucat

ion

rela

ted

info

rmat

ion

diss

emin

ated

app

lyin

g fo

od b

ased

die

tary

gu

idel

ines

and

hea

lthy

diet

pra

ctic

es w

ith th

e pr

omot

ion

of h

ealth

, agr

icul

ture

and

soci

al

prot

ectio

n se

rvic

es

No.

of d

istr

icts

di

ssem

inat

ing

educ

atio

nal

and

info

rmat

ion

diss

emin

atio

n se

rvic

es

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Food

and

Nut

ritio

n Se

curi

ty P

lan

of A

ctio

nM

ulti-

Sect

or N

utrit

ion

Plan

Food

Saf

ety

Polic

yN

atio

nal H

ealth

Pol

icy

2014

Food

Bas

ed D

ieta

ry G

uide

line

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

Dev

elop

trai

ning

pac

kage

fo

r the

pro

mot

ion

of fo

od

base

d di

etar

y gu

idel

ines

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

, Tr

aini

ng p

acka

ge o

n he

alth

y di

et d

evel

oped

N

A50

%20

20


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.2

Con

duct

adv

ocac

y an

d ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

activ

ities

for t

he se

ctor

al

func

tiona

ries

on

heal

thy

diet

and

food

bas

ed

diet

ary

guid

elin

es a

t all

leve

ls

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

# H

R tr

aine

d on

hea

lthy

diet

and

food

bas

ed

diet

ary

guid

elin

es a

t all

leve

ls

NA

75%

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.3

Enha

nce

the

trai

ning

, co

unse

lling

and

soci

al

mob

iliza

tion

skill

s for

th

e fr

ontli

ne w

orke

rs a

nd

exte

nsio

n w

orke

rs

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

% o

f fro

ntlin

e w

orke

rs

from

all

sect

ors t

rain

ed

on c

ouns

elin

g an

d so

cial

m

obili

zatio

n sk

ills f

or

nutr

ition

NA

100%

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.4

Dev

elop

and

dis

sem

inat

e ne

w, in

nova

tive

and

cont

extu

al b

ehav

iour

ch

ange

mes

sage

s on

food

sa

fety

, hea

lthy

diet

and

di

et d

iver

sifica

tion

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

No.

of i

nnov

ativ

e m

essa

ge d

evel

oped

and

di

ssem

inat

edN

AN

ew M

essa

ges

Dis

sem

inat

ed20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.5

Dev

elop

food

bas

ed

man

ual (

for a

ll ag

e gr

oups

) in

line

with

FBD

G

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,

No.

of a

gric

ultu

re a

nd

heal

th fu

nctio

narie

s tr

aine

d on

the

use

of fo

od

base

d m

anua

l

NA

1,50

0 Fu

nctio

narie

s20

20

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.6

Con

duct

cas

cade

trai

ning

to

the

hous

ehol

ds

thro

ugh

fron

tline

wor

kers

fr

om d

iffer

ent s

ecto

rs

(agr

icul

ture

, hea

lth,

wom

en d

evel

opm

ent,

educ

atio

n et

c.)

DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoH

,N

o. o

f hou

seho

ld

repr

esen

tativ

es tr

aine

dN

A3,

750

Hou

seho

ld

Repr

esen

tativ

es20

20

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.7

Mak

e di

strib

utio

n of

nut

ritio

nal r

atio

n m

anda

tory

thro

ugh

the

publ

ic in

stitu

tions

ta

rget

ing

the

food

defi

cit

and

hum

anita

rian

cri

sis

area

s for

the

bene

fit

of v

ulne

rabl

e gr

oups

in

clud

ing

child

ren,

pr

egna

nt a

nd la

ctat

ing

wom

en

MoA

D, M

oLD

, MoH

No.

of c

hild

ren,

pre

gnan

t w

omen

and

lact

atin

g w

omen

ben

efitin

g fr

om

acce

ss to

such

dis

trib

utio

n

Prac

tice

Exis

ts

All

Vuln

erab

le

Gro

ups L

ivin

g in

the

Food

D

efici

t and

H

uman

itari

an

Cri

sis A

reas

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.8

Run

advo

cacy

pr

ogra

mm

es to

per

suad

e th

e ho

useh

olds

for

mai

ntai

ning

food

rese

rve

to o

verc

ome

poss

ible

se

ason

al sh

orta

ges a

nd

prov

ide

tech

nica

l sup

port

fo

r est

ablis

hing

impr

oved

st

orag

e fa

cilit

ies

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

# ad

voca

cy e

vent

s or

gani

zed

at d

istr

ict a

nd

VD

C le

vel

NA

100%

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.9

Esta

blish

and

ope

rate

gr

ain

bank

s at t

he

com

mun

ity le

vel t

o m

eet

seas

onal

food

shor

tage

s by

mob

ilizi

ng lo

cal

orga

niza

tions

and

the

com

mun

ity m

embe

rs.

DoA

, DD

C, V

DC

% o

f hou

seho

lds l

inke

d to

th

e gr

ain

bank

s5%

25%

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

0

Mak

e pr

egna

nt w

omen

aw

are

of th

e ri

sk o

f co

nsum

ing

alco

hol a

nd

ciga

rette

s

MoH

,

% o

f pre

gnan

t wom

en

givi

ng u

p th

eir a

ddic

tion

of c

onsu

min

g al

coho

l and

ci

gare

ttes

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

1

Prov

ide

soci

al p

rote

ctio

n to

the

ultr

a-po

or/

vuln

erab

le g

roup

s with

fo

od a

ssis

tanc

e (th

roug

h th

e ac

tiviti

es su

ch a

s Fo

od S

tam

p an

d fo

od-f

or-

wor

k op

port

uniti

es, c

ash

tran

sfer

etc

.) in

the

food

de

ficit

area

s

MoC

PA, M

oAD

, D

oA, D

DC

, VD

C,

NFC

% o

f ultr

a-po

or

hous

ehol

ds b

enefi

ting

from

food

ass

ista

nce

activ

ities

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

2

Prom

ote

heal

th a

nd

nutr

ition

serv

ices

in th

e co

mm

unity

to in

crea

se th

e us

e of

serv

ices

MoA

D, M

oH

Prop

ortio

n of

U5

child

ren

mon

itore

d at

HF

for

grow

th a

nd c

ouns

eled

NA

100%

2025

Prop

ortio

n of

wom

en

coun

sele

d on

nut

ritio

n du

ring

AN

C c

heck

up

# of

Hom

e N

utrit

ion

Gar

den

esta

blish

ed a

t V

DC

leve

l

Act

ivity

2.2

.2.1

3Pr

omot

e fo

od a

nd

reci

pe d

emon

stra

tion

at

com

mun

ity le

vel

MoA

D, M

oH,

No.

of f

ood

and

reci

pe

dem

onst

ratio

n ac

tiviti

es

cond

ucte

d in

mot

her

grou

p at

VD

C le

vel

NA

750

Act

iviti

es20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

put -

2.2

.3

Food

bas

ed n

utri

tion

rela

ted

advo

cacy

and

ca

paci

ty b

uild

ing

com

pete

nce

of th

e fr

ontli

ne

wor

kers

, agr

icul

ture

ext

ensio

n w

orke

rs, s

ocia

l w

orke

rs a

nd h

ealth

pro

fess

iona

ls en

hanc

ed a

t all

leve

lsK

now

ledg

e of

fron

tline

wor

kers

, agr

icul

ture

ex

tens

ion

wor

kers

, soc

ial w

orke

rs a

nd h

ealth

pr

ofes

siona

ls in

crea

sed

on fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n

Adv

ocac

y ev

ents

co

nduc

ted

at a

ll le

vels

on

food

bas

ed n

utrit

ion

NA

100%

2025

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

anFo

od S

afet

y Po

licy

Nat

iona

l Hea

lth P

olic

y 20

14

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.1

Con

duct

adv

ocac

y ta

rget

ing

polic

y m

aker

s, pr

ogra

mm

e m

anag

ers

and

dist

rict

per

sonn

el

on n

utrit

ion

sens

itive

ag

ricul

ture

and

food

bas

ed

nutr

ition

MoA

D, M

oH, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

No.

of d

istr

icts

con

duct

ing

advo

cacy

Pro

gram

mes

NA

75 D

istr

icts

20

25N

o of

pol

icy

leve

l ad

voca

cy e

vent

s on

food

ba

sed

nutr

ition

(inv

olvi

ng

all s

ecto

rs)

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.2

Dev

elop

adv

ocac

y pa

ckag

e an

d po

licy

brie

fs,

com

mun

icat

ion

mat

eria

ls fo

r dis

sem

inat

ion

MoA

D, M

oH

Adv

ocac

y pa

ckag

e an

d po

licy

brie

fs

and

com

mun

icat

ion

mat

eria

ls de

velo

ped

and

diss

emin

ated

at a

ll le

vels

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

2.2

.3.3

Prom

ote

wom

en d

rudg

ery

redu

ctio

n an

d la

bor s

avin

g te

chno

logi

es fo

r foo

d an

d nu

triti

on se

curit

y

MoA

D, M

oH, ,

K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

, N

CD

B

% o

f wom

en a

cces

sing

labo

ur sa

ving

and

nu

triti

on se

curit

y re

late

d eq

uipm

ent a

nd to

ols f

or

use

NA

100%

20

25

Out

put -

2.2

.4N

utrit

ion

serv

ices

impr

oved

with

inte

grat

ion

of

heal

th se

rvic

es

% o

f act

iviti

es

impl

emen

ted

by

inte

grat

ing

impr

oved

he

alth

and

nut

ritio

n se

rvic

es

NA

100

%20

25

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

anN

atio

nal H

ealth

Pol

icy

Nat

iona

l Nut

ritio

n Po

licy

and

Stra

tegy

Nat

iona

l IYC

F St

rate

gy

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.1

Dev

elop

nut

ritio

n pr

otoc

ol fo

r nut

ritio

n as

sess

men

t and

m

anag

emen

t for

the

heal

th se

rvic

e pr

ovid

ers

MoA

D, M

oHN

utri

tion

prot

ocol

de

velo

ped

for d

iffer

ent

leve

ls an

d pi

lote

dN

AN

utrit

ion

Prot

ocol

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.2

Pilo

t IFA

supp

lem

enta

tion

appl

icab

le fo

r the

per

i-co

ncep

tual

and

ado

lesc

ent

peri

ods

MoA

D, M

oHN

o. o

f IFA

su

pple

men

tatio

n ac

tiviti

es

pilo

ted

NA

5 D

evel

opm

ent

Regi

ons

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.3

Im

plem

ent I

FA

supp

lem

enta

tion

com

bine

d w

ith h

omes

tead

fo

od p

rodu

ctio

n

MoA

D, M

oH, M

oLD

No.

of d

istr

icts

cov

ered

by

the

IFA

supp

lem

enta

tion

prog

ram

me

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

2.2

.4.4

Inte

grat

e nu

triti

on

coun

selin

g at

diff

eren

t co

ntac

t poi

nts u

nder

he

alth

targ

etin

g th

e m

ater

nal a

nd c

hild

hea

lth

MoA

D, M

oH

Hea

lth se

rvic

e pa

ckag

es

of A

NC

/BPP

, CB-

IMN

CI,

FP in

clud

e nu

triti

on a

nd

impl

emen

ted

NA

100%

2025

Out

put -

2.2

.5

Mat

erna

l, In

fant

and

You

ng C

hild

Nut

ritio

n pr

actic

es im

prov

ed w

ith sp

ecia

l foc

us o

n im

prov

ing

the

diet

ary

dive

rsity

M

inim

um a

ccep

tabl

e di

et a

mon

g ch

ildre

n

Wom

en D

ieta

ry D

iver

sity

Incr

ease

dN

A10

0%20

25

Food

and

Nut

ritio

n Se

curi

ty P

lan

of A

ctio

nM

ulti-

Sect

or N

utrit

ion

Plan

Food

Saf

ety

Polic

yN

atio

nal H

ealth

Pol

icy

2014

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.1

Revi

ew, r

evis

e an

d de

velo

p tr

aini

ng

guid

elin

es, m

anua

ls an

d IE

C m

ater

ials

(with

focu

s on

hea

lthy

diet

, foo

d ba

sed

to im

prov

e di

etar

y di

vers

ity, c

ouns

elin

g sk

ills)

fo

r the

ben

efit o

f tra

inin

g to

the

preg

nant

wom

en,

lact

atin

g w

omen

and

ch

ildre

n an

d ch

ildre

n of

ag

e un

der 2

yea

rs

MoA

D, M

oH,

No.

of t

rain

ing

guid

elin

es,

man

uals

and

IEC

mat

eria

ls de

velo

ped

as w

ell a

s re

vise

d

NA

Revi

sed

Mat

eria

ls20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.2

Use

ICT

to d

eliv

er S

BCC

m

essa

ges t

o fir

st 1

000

days

hou

seho

lds

MoA

D, M

oH,

% o

f firs

t 1,0

00 d

ays H

H

cove

red

thro

ugh

ICT

in

deliv

erin

g SB

CC

mes

sage

sN

A10

0%20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.3

Dev

elop

reci

pe b

ook

for

com

plem

enta

ry fe

edin

g ba

sed

on th

e av

aila

bilit

y of

loca

l foo

ds (f

or e

ach

ecol

ogic

al re

gion

s) a

nd

prom

ote

thei

r util

izat

ion

in th

e co

mm

unity

MoA

D, M

oH

Ecol

ogic

al re

gion

s sp

ecifi

c re

cipe

boo

k fo

r com

plem

enta

ry

feed

ing

used

by

the

com

mun

ity d

evel

oped

and

di

ssem

inat

ed

NA

3 Re

cipe

Boo

ks

(One

eac

h fo

r the

hi

lls, m

ount

ains

an

d Te

rai)

2020

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.4

:

Prom

ote

diet

ary

dive

rsity

fo

r pre

gnan

t, la

ctat

ing

and

child

ren

unde

r 2 y

ears

of

age

MoA

D, M

oH,

Prop

ortio

n of

PLW

s ha

ving

kno

wle

dge

of

diet

ary

dive

rsity

NA

100

%20

25

Act

ivity

2.2

.5.5

Impr

ove

loca

l fee

ding

pr

actic

es th

roug

h im

prov

emen

t in

loca

l re

cipe

s (us

ing

TRI

PS

met

hodo

logy

)

MoA

D, M

oH,

TRI

P m

etho

dolo

gy to

im

prov

e lo

cal f

eedi

ng

reci

pes p

ilote

dN

A75

%20

25

Out

com

e - 2

.3En

ablin

g en

viro

nmen

t cre

ated

for m

ulti-

sect

or

coor

dina

tion

for c

oher

ent,

func

tiona

l and

co

ncer

ted

actio

ns fo

r nut

ritio

n at

all

leve

ls

Mul

ti-se

ctor

coo

rdin

atio

n sy

stem

est

ablis

hed

at a

ll le

vels

NA

Coo

rdin

atio

n M

aint

aine

d20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

an


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Out

put -

2.3

.1

Inst

itutio

nal a

s wel

l as h

uman

reso

urce

cap

acity

of

the

gove

rnm

ent s

ecto

r fun

ctio

narie

s im

prov

ed fo

r ad

dres

sing

the

issu

e of

food

and

nut

ritio

n se

curit

y at

all

leve

ls

# of

wor

kfor

ce fr

om a

ll co

ncer

ned

sect

ors t

rain

ed

on fo

od b

ased

nut

ritio

n at

al

l lev

els

NA

1,50

0 G

over

nmen

t Fu

nctio

narie

s20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t Str

ateg

yFo

od a

nd N

utrit

ion

Secu

rity

Pla

n of

Act

ion

Mul

ti-Se

ctor

Nut

ritio

n Pl

an

Act

ivity

2.3

.3.1

Cap

acity

bui

ldin

g of

he

alth

and

non

-hea

lth

sect

or fu

nctio

narie

s on

food

bas

ed n

utrit

ion

MoH

, MoA

D, M

oLD

No.

of h

ealth

and

non

-he

alth

sect

or fu

nctio

narie

s tr

aine

d on

food

bas

ed

nutr

ition

200

Pers

ons

3,75

0 Pe

rson

s20

25

Act

ivity

2.3

.3.2

In-c

ount

ry a

s wel

l out

-co

untr

y co

llabo

ratio

n an

d ex

posu

re to

agr

o-ba

sed

proj

ects

and

food

bas

ed

nutr

ition

pro

gram

mes

MoA

D, M

oH, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

No.

of i

n-co

untr

y an

d ou

t-co

untr

y ex

posu

re a

ctiv

ities

or

gani

zed

NA

10 A

ctiv

ities

2025

Act

ivity

2.3

.3.3

Prom

ote

form

al a

nd

info

rmal

edu

catio

nal

serv

ices

(e.g

. SH

N, E

CD

, pa

rent

al c

ouns

ellin

g et

c.)

to k

eep

the

nutr

ition

al

beha

viou

r int

act

MoA

D, M

oH, M

oE

Nut

ritio

n in

non

-for

mal

ed

ucat

ion

curr

icul

um

inte

grat

ed

Nut

ritio

n se

ssio

ns d

urin

g in

form

al e

duca

tion

cond

ucte

d

NA

2000

2025

PILL

AR

– II

IA

LL F

OO

D S

YST

EMS

ARE

SU

STA

INA

BLE

Out

com

e - 3

.1Su

stai

nabl

y m

anag

ed p

rodu

ctiv

e na

tura

l res

ourc

es

for f

ood

prod

uctio

n

% o

f far

mer

s eng

aged

in

food

pro

duce

d w

ith

rene

wab

le m

anag

emen

t of

pro

duct

ive

natu

ral

reso

urce

s

NA

100%

2025

Out

put -

3.1

.1W

ater

shed

safe

guar

ded

agai

nst d

eter

iora

tion

Con

trol

mea

sure

s tak

en

agai

nst t

he d

eter

iora

tion

poin

ts id

entifi

edPr

actic

e Ex

ists

Con

trol

Mea

sure

s A

pplie

d20

25

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.1

Ass

ess t

he n

atur

e an

d st

atus

of t

he w

ater

shed

at

diff

eren

t tim

e in

terv

als

(eve

ry th

ree

year

s)

MoP

E, M

oST,

MoF

SC,

IUC

N, U

NEP

,AD

B,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

No.

of s

tudi

es c

ondu

cted

on

diff

eren

t eco

logi

cal

belts

in a

n in

terv

al o

f thr

ee

year

s

NA

3 St

udie

s20

25

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

;N

atio

nal W

ater

Pla

n; W

ater

Res

ourc

es S

trat

egy

Soil

and

Wat

ersh

edC

onse

rvat

ion

Act

, 198

2;

Land

Act

, 196

4;;

Envi

ronm

enta

l Pro

tect

ion

Act

, 19

96;

Fore

st A

ct, 1

993;

W

ater

Res

ourc

e A

ct, 1

992;

Loca

l Sel

f-G

over

nanc

e A

ct, 1

999;

Chu

ria

Wat

ersh

ed M

anag

emen

t Pr

ojec

tIr

riga

tion

and

Wat

er R

esou

rces

M

anag

emen

t Pro

ject


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.2

Mak

e la

nd u

se a

nd w

ater

m

anag

emen

t pra

ctic

es

cons

erva

tion-

sens

itive

MoF

SC, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

No.

of f

arm

ers t

rain

ed a

nd

appl

ying

con

serv

atio

n-fr

iend

ly la

nd u

se a

nd w

ater

m

anag

emen

t pra

ctic

es

NA

18,7

50 P

erso

ns20

25

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.3

Iden

tify

and

appl

y m

easu

res a

gain

st

dete

riora

ting

cond

ition

s of

the

wat

ersh

eds

MoP

E, M

oST,

MoF

SC,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

Stud

ies c

ondu

cted

to

iden

tify

the

prob

lem

ar

eas a

nd a

pply

con

trol

m

easu

res

NA

2 St

udie

s (O

ne

each

in th

e H

ill

and

Mou

ntai

n)20

25

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.4

Enfo

rce

envi

ronm

enta

l qu

ality

stan

dard

s in

line

with

the

Fore

st

Man

agem

ent G

uide

lines

MoA

D, M

oPE,

MoS

T,

MoF

SC, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

HH

farm

ers e

ngag

ed in

vo

lunt

eerin

g co

mpl

ianc

e to

on-

farm

and

off-

farm

w

ater

con

serv

atio

n pr

actic

es

NA

5000

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.5

Enfo

rce

the

Dis

aste

r M

anag

emen

t Act

to

cont

rol f

arm

-indu

ced

degr

adat

ion

of la

nd a

nd

wat

er re

sour

ces

MoF

SC, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

Redu

ce a

ffect

ed la

nd

area

and

wat

er so

urce

s co

ntro

lled

from

de

grad

atio

n

2%1%

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97N

atio

nal S

trat

egy

for D

isas

ter R

isk

Man

agem

ent i

n N

epal

,In

tegr

ated

Wat

er R

esou

rce

Man

agem

ent P

roje

ct (I

WRM

P);

Com

mun

ity M

anag

ed Ir

rigat

ed

Agr

icul

ture

Sec

tor P

roje

ct

(Agr

icul

ture

);

Act

ivity

3.1

.1.6

Incr

ease

com

mun

ity

part

icip

atio

n in

man

agin

g de

grad

ed fa

rm a

nd fo

rest

ar

eas

MoF

SC, C

omm

unity

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of d

istr

icts

mob

ilizi

ng

com

mun

ity to

pre

vent

da

mag

e in

the

leas

ehol

d fo

rest

are

a an

d an

imal

pa

stur

es

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Nat

iona

l Str

ateg

y fo

r Dis

aste

r Risk

M

anag

emen

t in

Nep

al

Out

put -

3.1

.2

Farm

wat

er a

nd so

il m

anag

ed b

y re

tain

ing

thei

r co

ntrib

utio

ns to

pro

duct

ive

uses

% o

f suc

cess

ful m

aint

enan

ce o

f soi

l qua

lity

with

pr

oper

soil

man

agem

ent c

are

% o

f suc

cess

ful r

etai

ning

of

farm

wat

er su

pply

with

the

adop

tion

of c

onse

rvat

ion

prac

tices

NA

50%

2025

NA

50%

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

Prom

ote

sust

aina

ble

man

agem

ent o

f soi

l and

fa

rm w

ater

MoI

rr.,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

% o

f far

mer

s fam

iliar

with

su

stai

nabl

e m

anag

emen

t of

soil

and

farm

wat

er

reso

urce

s

NA

100%

2025

Nat

iona

l Wat

er P

lan;

Wat

er

Reso

urce

s Str

ateg

y;So

il Te

st a

nd Im

prov

emen

t Se

rvic

e Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.2

Con

trol

uns

usta

inab

le

use

of la

nd a

nd o

ther

ec

osys

tem

reso

urce

s

MoP

E, M

oST,

MoA

D,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

Enfo

rce

polic

ies,

law

s and

re

gula

tions

to p

enal

ize

wro

ng d

oers

Polic

ies E

xist

Polic

es a

nd A

cts

Enfo

rced

2025

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

;So

il Te

st a

nd Im

prov

emen

t Se

rvic

e Pr

ogra

mm

e


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.3

Prom

ote

adop

tion

of

tech

nolo

gies

con

trib

utin

g to

sust

ain

agri

cultu

re

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

% o

f far

mer

s app

lyin

g de

grad

atio

n sa

fe

tech

nolo

gies

in c

ultiv

atin

g th

eir a

gric

ultu

ral l

and

NA

100%

2025

Clim

ate

Cha

nge

Ada

ptat

ion

and

Dis

aste

r Risk

Man

agem

ent i

n A

gric

ultu

re;

Soil

Test

and

Impr

ovem

ent

Serv

ice

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.4

Prom

ote

adop

tion

of

orga

nic

farm

ing

prac

tices

to

redu

ce d

epen

denc

y on

ch

emic

al fe

rtili

zers

and

pe

stic

ides

MoA

D, D

oA, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O%

of f

arm

ers a

pply

ing

IPM

/GA

P pr

actic

esN

A50

%20

25N

atio

nal A

gric

ultu

re P

olic

y, 20

04;

Tea,

Coff

ee a

nd C

arda

mom

D

evel

opm

ent B

oard

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.5

Rest

rict i

nves

tmen

ts th

at

dam

age

sust

aina

bilit

y of

na

tura

l res

ourc

es.

MoL

JPA

, MoA

D,

DD

C, V

DC

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

Law

s, re

gula

tions

and

po

licie

s app

lied

to

disc

oura

ge

inve

stm

ents

that

ne

gativ

ely

affec

t su

stai

nabi

lity

of th

e na

tura

l res

ourc

es

NA

Law

s Enf

orce

d20

25En

viro

nmen

t Pro

tect

ion

Act

and

Ru

les,

1997

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.6

Prom

otio

n of

bio

dive

rsity

co

nser

vatio

n pr

actic

es

MoP

E, M

oST,

MoA

D,

MoF

SC, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

No.

of f

arm

ers t

rain

ed to

fa

mili

ar w

ith m

etho

ds o

f en

viro

nmen

tal c

are

and

biod

iver

sity

cons

erva

tion

NA

18,7

50 P

erso

ns20

25N

epal

Bio

dive

rsity

Str

ateg

y, En

viro

nmen

t Pro

tect

ion

Act

and

Ru

les,

1997

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.7

Prom

ote

cons

erva

tion

sens

itive

agr

icul

ture

M

oFSC

, MoA

D,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PON

o. o

f far

mer

s tra

ined

on

cons

erva

tion

agric

ultu

re

NA

18,7

50 P

erso

ns20

25N

epal

Bio

dive

rsity

Str

ateg

y, En

viro

nmen

t Pro

tect

ion

Act

and

Ru

les,

1997

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.8

Prov

ide

ince

ntiv

e to

the

com

mun

ities

pro

mot

ing

sust

aina

ble

use

of

reso

urce

s.

MoF

SC, M

oAD

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of c

omm

uniti

es

rew

arde

d fo

r sus

tain

able

us

e of

reso

urce

s.N

A75

Sel

ecte

d C

omm

uniti

es(O

ne p

er D

istr

ict)

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.9

Mai

ntai

n la

nd, w

ater

an

d en

ergy

nex

us in

tact

in

the

inte

rven

tions

for

deve

lopm

ent

MoL

RM, M

oWSS

M

oEn,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

Act

iviti

es p

lann

ed a

nd

impl

emen

ted

crea

ting

syne

rgy

amon

g th

e us

e of

re

late

d re

sour

ces n

exus

NA

Coo

rdin

ated

Pl

ans

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

0

App

ly re

new

abili

ty

as a

crit

erio

n in

the

cons

erva

tion

and

utili

zatio

n of

land

, w

ater

and

bio

-div

ersit

y re

sour

ces

MoA

D, M

oFSC

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

Rule

s for

the

rene

wab

ility

of

reso

urce

s mad

e m

anda

tory

in th

e ut

iliza

tion

of re

sour

ces

NA

Rule

s Enf

orce

d20

25En

viro

nmen

t Pro

tect

ion

Act

and

Ru

les,

1997

; Nep

al B

iodi

vers

ity

Stra

tegy

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

1

Prom

ote

slopi

ng

agric

ultu

re la

nd

tech

nolo

gy in

the

mid

and

hi

gh h

ills

MoF

SC, M

oAD

No.

of m

id a

nd h

ill

dist

ricts

cov

ered

NA

52 D

istr

icts

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

2St

reng

then

Gen

e Ba

nk fo

r th

e pr

otec

tion

of n

ativ

e sp

ecie

s

MoA

D, M

oPE,

M

oFSC

, MoF

ALD

% o

f far

mer

s obt

aini

ng

Gen

e Ba

nk se

rvic

es fr

om

NA

RCN

A25

%20

25En

viro

nmen

t Pro

tect

ion

Act

and

Ru

les,

1997

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

3A

pply

trad

ition

al

know

ledg

e fo

r sus

tain

able

us

e of

nat

ural

reso

urce

s.

MoA

D, M

oPE,

M

oFSC

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

% o

f hou

seho

lds a

pply

ing

trad

ition

al p

ract

ices

to

prev

ent n

egat

ive

effec

ts

for s

usta

inab

ility

of t

he

natu

ral r

esou

rces

NA

50%

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Act

ivity

3.1

.2.1

4

Con

duct

agr

o-fo

rest

ry

activ

ities

in c

olla

bora

tion

with

the

Fore

st a

nd S

oil

Con

serv

atio

n M

inis

try

MoA

D, M

oFSC

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

No.

of j

oint

act

iviti

es

laun

ched

on

agro

-for

estr

y in

the

dist

ricts

N

A15

0 A

ctiv

ities

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Out

put -

3.1

.3Fa

rmer

s’ ca

paci

ty st

reng

then

ed to

cop

e w

ith th

e ad

vers

e eff

ects

of c

limat

e ch

ange

and

nat

ural

di

sast

ers

Prop

ortio

n of

farm

ho

useh

olds

in a

co

mm

unity

con

fiden

t to

cope

aga

inst

the

adve

rse

effec

ts o

f CC

ND

NA

50%

2025

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.1

Trai

n fa

rmer

s to

cope

w

ith th

e ad

vers

e eff

ects

of

clim

ate

chan

ge a

nd

natu

ral d

isas

ters

MoP

E, M

oFSC

, M

oAD

, WB,

Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

% o

f far

mer

s pre

pare

d to

m

anag

e th

e ad

vers

e eff

ects

of

CC

ND

NA

50

%

2020

Stra

tegi

c Pr

ogra

mm

e fo

r Clim

ate

Resil

ienc

e;Pi

lot P

rogr

amm

e fo

r Clim

ate

Resil

ienc

e (P

PCR)

: Bu

ildin

g Re

silie

nce

to C

limat

e Re

late

d H

azar

ds (a

gric

ultu

re m

anag

emen

t in

form

atio

n sy

stem

)

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.2

Stre

ngth

en th

e ro

le o

f N

atio

nal I

nfor

mat

ion

and

Early

War

ning

Sys

tem

(N

IEW

S) in

info

rmin

g po

ssib

le a

dver

se e

ffect

s of

CC

ND

.

DoH

M, D

oA, D

LS,

MoA

D, M

oPE,

M

oFSC

, WB

% o

f far

mer

s acc

essin

g ea

rly w

arni

ng m

essa

ges

to p

repa

re th

emse

lves

ag

ains

t the

adv

erse

effe

cts

of C

CN

D

NA

50

%

2025

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.3

Con

duct

rese

arch

on

clim

ate

resil

ient

ag

ricul

ture

dev

elop

men

t pr

actic

es

MoA

D, A

RCs,

Uni

vers

ities

Rese

arch

cen

tres

, un

iver

sitie

s and

aca

dem

ia

enga

ged

in c

ondu

ctin

g re

sear

ch o

n cl

imat

e re

silie

nt a

gric

ultu

ral

prac

tices

NA

Rese

arch

Rep

orts

2025

Stra

tegi

c Pr

ogra

mm

e fo

r Clim

ate

Resil

ienc

e

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.4

Prom

ote

stre

ss to

lera

nt

crop

ping

pat

tern

s and

pr

actic

es

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

% o

f far

mer

s cul

tivat

ing

stre

ss-t

oler

ant v

arie

ties

and

follo

win

g re

late

d pr

actic

es

NA

50%

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

;


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.5

Impl

emen

t bio

-en

gine

erin

g m

easu

res f

or

redu

ctio

n of

the

adve

rse

effec

ts o

f nat

ural

dis

aste

rs

MoA

D, M

oPE,

M

oFSC

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

, PO

Com

mun

ities

in e

ach

dist

rict a

pply

ing

envi

ronm

ent-

frie

ndly

te

chno

logi

es (s

uch

as

plan

tatio

n of

tree

s) to

pr

even

t soi

l ero

sion

and

flood

)

NA

20%

C

omm

uniti

es in

Ea

ch D

istr

ict

2025

Nat

iona

l Str

ateg

y fo

r Dis

aste

r Risk

M

anag

emen

t in

Nep

al

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.6

Use

Loc

al A

dapt

atio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e of

Act

ion

(LA

PA) a

s a d

istr

ict p

lan

coor

dina

tion

guid

e

DoA

, MoP

E,

MoF

SC

Com

mun

ities

ben

efitin

g fr

om th

e ap

plic

atio

n of

LA

PA p

rovi

sions

in a

ll di

stric

ts

75 D

istr

icts

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Clim

ate

Cha

nge

Ada

ptat

ion

and

Dis

aste

r Risk

Man

agem

ent i

n A

gric

ultu

re;

PPC

R : B

uild

ing

Resil

ienc

e to

Clim

ate

Rela

ted

Haz

ards

(a

gric

ultu

re m

anag

emen

t in

form

atio

n sy

stem

)

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.7

Incl

ude

Dis

aste

r Risk

M

anag

emen

t (D

RM) a

s on

e of

the

com

pone

nts i

n th

e ag

ricu

ltura

l and

rura

l de

velo

pmen

t pla

ns a

t the

di

stric

t lev

el

MoA

D, M

oPE,

MoF

SC,

WB

Dis

tric

t Agr

icul

ture

and

Ru

ral D

evel

opm

ent P

lans

ad

dres

sing

the

DRM

issu

esPr

actic

e Ex

its75

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.8

Repl

icat

e be

st p

ract

ices

le

arne

d fr

om th

e pi

lote

d ex

perie

nce

of ri

sk-p

rone

ar

eas

MoA

D, M

oPE,

MoF

SC,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PON

o. o

f dis

tric

ts a

pply

ing

repl

icat

ed b

est p

ract

ices

N

A75

Dis

tric

ts20

25

Act

ivity

3.1

.3.9

Prev

ent s

easo

nal f

ood

supp

ly sh

orta

ges b

y de

cent

raliz

ing

rese

rve

at

the

dist

rict

NFC

, MoA

D,

MoC

, MoS

Emer

genc

y fo

od re

serv

es

esta

blish

ed in

all

dist

ricts

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

Out

put –

3.1

.4La

nd re

form

pra

ctic

es a

pplie

d / i

mpr

oved

Land

adm

inis

trat

ion

prac

tices

impr

oved

NA

App

licat

ion

of Im

prov

ed

Prac

tices

2025

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.1

Trai

n se

rvic

e pr

ovid

ers o

n la

nd su

rvey

and

land

use

m

appi

ngM

oLRM

No.

of s

taff

trai

ned

NA

750

Pers

ons

2020

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

;

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.2

Ensu

re u

tiliz

atio

n of

land

un

der t

he a

gro-

ecol

ogic

al

zoni

ng c

riter

iaM

oLRM

, MoA

D

Land

man

agem

ent

plan

s com

plyi

ng w

ith

the

crite

ria

set f

or a

gro-

ecol

ogic

al z

onin

g

NA

100

%

Com

plia

nce

to th

e La

nd

Man

agem

ent

Plan

s

2025

Envi

ronm

ent P

rote

ctio

n A

ct a

nd

Rule

s, 19

97

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.3

Util

ize

Land

Info

rmat

ion

Serv

ice

(LIS

) fac

ility

for

deve

lopi

ng th

e la

nd u

se

plan

s and

mon

itorin

g im

plem

ente

d ac

tiviti

es

MoA

D, M

oLRM

, M

oFSC

, C

BS

Up

to d

ate

info

rmat

ion

mai

ntai

ned

in L

IS a

nd th

e La

nd U

se P

lans

dev

elop

ed

and

impl

emen

ted

usin

g su

ch in

form

atio

n

NA

Land

Use

Pla

ns

Mak

ing

Use

of

LIS

Dat

abas

e20

25

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

;A

gric

ultu

re D

evel

opm

ent

Stra

tegy

, 201

5


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.1

.4.4

Dis

cour

age

conv

ersio

n of

agr

icul

tura

l lan

d fo

r th

e pu

rpos

e of

non

-ag

ricu

ltura

l use

MoP

E, M

oST,

MoA

D,

MoL

RM, M

oFSC

, M

oLJP

A, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

Land

use

syst

em e

nfor

ced

as p

er th

e La

nd U

se P

olic

y 20

10

NA

Regu

latio

ns

Enfo

rced

2025

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

;Pe

nalty

impo

sed

by

appl

ying

law

s and

re

gula

tions

aga

inst

the

conv

ersio

n of

agr

icul

tura

l la

nd fo

r the

use

of n

on-

appr

oved

pur

pose

Out

com

e 3.

2Q

ualit

y an

d sa

fety

stan

dard

s mai

ntai

ned

in th

e fo

od c

hain

s

Act

ors o

f the

food

val

ue

chai

ns m

aint

aini

ng q

ualit

y an

d sa

fety

stan

dard

sN

A10

0%20

25

Out

put -

3.2

.1Fo

od h

andl

ing

syst

em fo

unde

d w

ith n

atio

nal

qual

ity a

nd sa

fety

stan

dard

s

Food

tran

sact

ions

fo

unde

d in

line

with

the

natio

nal q

ualit

y an

d sa

fety

st

anda

rds

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.1

Set m

anda

tory

qua

lity

and

safe

ty re

quire

men

ts

for t

he m

ajor

con

sum

able

fo

od it

ems

DFT

QC

, MoA

D

Prop

ortio

n of

com

plia

nce

to th

e IS

O 2

000

and

Cod

ex

Alim

enta

rius s

tand

ards

m

aint

aine

d

NA

100%

2025

Agr

ibus

ines

s Pro

mot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06;

Food

Nut

ritio

n an

d Te

chno

logy

Pr

ogra

mm

ePo

licie

s and

regu

latio

ns

set f

or c

ompl

ianc

e to

th

e IS

O 2

000

and

Cod

ex

Alim

enta

rius s

tand

ards

.

NA

Polic

ies a

nd

Regu

latio

n A

pplie

d

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.2

Dis

sem

inat

e in

form

atio

n am

ong

the

stak

ehol

ders

ab

out t

he m

anda

tory

fo

od q

ualit

y an

d sa

fety

re

quire

men

ts to

be

met

DFT

QC

, MoA

D

% o

f pro

duce

r far

mer

s, pr

oces

sors

, tra

ders

and

co

nsum

ers a

war

e ab

out

the

qual

ity a

nd sa

fety

st

anda

rd e

nvis

aged

for t

he

food

pro

duct

s

NA

100%

2020

Food

Nut

ritio

n an

d Te

chno

logy

Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.3

Stre

ngth

en re

gula

tory

m

echa

nism

s for

the

mon

itorin

g of

qua

lity

and

safe

ty o

f foo

d pr

oduc

ts

DFT

QC

, MoA

D

Verifi

catio

n of

nut

ritio

nal

prop

ertie

s, ch

emic

al

cont

ents

, and

pos

sible

he

alth

risk

of t

he v

alue

ch

ain

prod

ucts

NA

50%

20

25Fo

od N

utri

tion

and

Tech

nolo

gy

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.4

Stre

ngth

en th

e ca

paci

ty o

f na

tiona

l foo

d la

bora

tory

to

offe

ring

food

for s

afet

y an

d qu

ality

test

serv

ices

fo

r acc

redi

tatio

n

DFT

QC

, MoA

DFo

od sa

mpl

es te

sted

at

the

natio

nal l

abor

ator

y fo

r qu

ality

cer

tifica

tion

NA

10%

20

25

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.5

Enac

t and

impl

emen

t N

atio

nal B

iose

curit

y Po

licy

MoA

D, M

oPE,

N

atio

nal B

iose

curit

y Po

licy

enac

ted

and

impl

emen

ted

NA

Impl

emen

tatio

n of

Pol

icy

2020


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.6

Esta

blish

com

mun

ity-

base

d fo

od h

andl

ing

syst

ems

MoA

D, N

FCN

o. o

f foo

d ha

ndlin

g en

terp

rise

s pilo

ted

at th

e lo

cal c

omm

unity

leve

lN

A37

5 Pi

lote

d En

terp

rise

s20

25

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.7

Prom

ote

cont

ribut

ion

of lo

cal/t

radi

tiona

l foo

d in

the

food

men

u w

ith

supp

ort f

or a

subs

idiz

ed

selli

ng ra

te

MoA

D, N

FC

No.

of d

istr

icts

cov

ered

by

the

supp

ly o

f tra

ditio

nal /

in

dige

nous

food

item

s at

a su

bsid

ized

pric

e in

the

food

defi

cit a

reas

NA

32 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

3.2

.1.8

Impl

emen

t Pes

t Risk

A

naly

sis S

yste

m (P

RA) i

n th

e qu

aran

tine

MoA

D, D

oA

App

licat

ion

of P

est R

isk

Ana

lysi

s Sys

tem

bro

ught

in

to p

ract

ice

by a

ll Q

uara

ntin

e C

heck

Pos

t

NA

Each

Qua

rant

ine

Che

ck P

ost i

n th

e co

untr

y20

25

Out

put -

3.2

.2A

cces

s to

food

cha

in m

arke

ts im

prov

ed

100%

val

ue c

hain

pr

oces

ses h

avin

g co

nfirm

ed a

cces

s to

mar

ket

NA

100%

Acc

ess t

o M

arke

t 20

25

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.1

Stan

dard

ize

grad

ing

of

agric

ultu

ral p

rodu

cts f

or

mar

ketin

g

DFT

QC

, MoA

DD

oA, D

LS

% o

f pro

duce

rs su

pply

ing

grad

ed m

ater

ials

to th

e m

arke

tN

A50

%20

25

Agr

icul

tura

l Per

spec

tive

Plan

M

onito

ring

and

Coo

rdin

atio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e,

Live

stoc

k Se

rvic

e Ex

tens

ion

Prog

ram

me,

Agr

ibus

ines

s Pr

omot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06;

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Mar

ket D

evel

opm

ent P

rogr

amm

e

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.2

Prom

ote

acce

ss to

mar

ket

for a

ll ag

ribus

ines

s val

ue

chai

nsM

oAD

, FN

CC

I%

of f

arm

ers l

inke

d w

ith

the

stab

le m

arke

tsN

A10

0%20

25

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.3

Con

trol

mar

ket p

rice

dist

ortio

nsM

oAD

, NC

DB

Polic

ies,

acts

, rul

es a

nd

regu

latio

ns a

pplie

d ag

ains

t art

ifici

al p

ricin

g an

d ho

ardi

ng o

f pro

duct

s fo

r the

pric

e sp

ecul

atio

n pu

rpos

e

NA

Polic

ies a

nd A

cts

Enfo

rced

2025

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.4

Prom

ote

exch

ange

of

mar

ket p

rice

info

rmat

ion

MoA

D, D

OA

, DLS

, D

AD

O, D

LSO

, NC

DB

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r pr

oduc

ers,

proc

esso

rs a

nd

trad

ers a

cces

sing

mar

ket

pric

e in

form

atio

n w

ith

the

appl

icat

ion

of IC

T

faci

litie

s

NA

100%

2025

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.5

Stre

ngth

en in

form

atio

n co

llect

ion,

ana

lysi

s and

re

port

ing

capa

city

for

effec

tive

diss

emin

atio

n of

ag

ricul

tura

l pric

e st

atis

tics

MoA

DU

p to

dat

e co

llect

ion,

an

alys

is a

nd d

isse

min

atio

n of

info

rmat

ion

regu

lari

zed

NA

Upd

ated

In

form

atio

n in

C

ircul

atio

n20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Dev

elop

men

t St

rate

gy, 2

014;

Live

stoc

k M

arke

t Pro

mot

ion

Prog

ram

me


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.6

Con

trol

una

utho

rize

d co

llect

ion

of ta

xes d

urin

g tr

ansf

er o

f the

agr

icul

tura

l pr

oduc

ts a

cros

s the

vi

llage

s and

dis

tric

ts

MoF

, MoA

D, M

oLJP

A,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

Law

s aga

inst

the

unau

thor

ized

col

lect

ion

of

dupl

icat

e ta

xes e

nfor

ced

NA

Impl

emen

tatio

n of

Law

2020

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.7

Mon

itor d

rug

resid

ues

in th

e ag

ricu

ltura

l co

mm

oditi

es (e

.g. m

ilk,

mea

t, ho

ney,

tea

and

coffe

e) to

be

mar

kete

d

MoA

D, M

oC,

MoS

,DFT

QC

Mar

ketin

g of

cer

tified

pr

oduc

tsN

AC

ertifi

catio

n A

rran

gem

ents

in

Plac

e20

25

Nat

iona

l Tea

Pol

icy,

2057

; N

atio

nal C

offee

Pol

icy,

2060

; N

atio

nal A

gric

ultu

re P

olic

y, 20

04;

Tea,

Coff

ee a

nd C

arda

mom

D

evel

opm

ent B

oard

Trad

e Po

licy,

2009

; N

atio

nal T

rade

Inte

grat

ion

Stra

tegy

, 201

0

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.8

Enco

urag

e ad

optio

n of

po

wer

-bas

ed te

chno

logi

es

in th

e pr

oces

sing

of

agri

cultu

ral p

rodu

cts

AEP

C, D

oM, D

CSI

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

,NEA

,DFT

QC

% o

f pro

cess

ors a

pply

ing

pow

er b

ased

tech

nolo

gies

fo

r the

val

ue c

hain

sN

A50

%20

25

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06;

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Mar

ket D

evel

opm

ent P

rogr

amm

e

Act

ivity

3.2

.2.9

Prom

ote

the

use

of

alte

rnat

e so

urce

s of

ener

gy in

the

valu

e ch

ain

oper

atio

ns

MoA

D, M

oST,

MO

I, M

oEn,

DC

SI, C

SID

B,

AEP

C, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

% o

f agr

o-pr

oces

sing

indu

strie

s mak

ing

use

of

mec

hani

cal p

ower

sour

ces

(ele

ctric

ity, s

olar

, die

sel

ener

gy o

r bio

-ene

rgy)

NA

50%

2025

Indu

stri

al P

olic

y, 20

67;

Food

Cri

sis R

espo

nse

Prog

ram

me

PILL

AR

– IV

100

% IN

CRE

ASE

IN S

MA

LLH

OLD

ER P

ROD

UC

TIV

ITY

AN

D IN

CO

ME

Out

com

e –

4.1

Prod

uctiv

ity o

f cro

p an

d liv

esto

ck in

crea

sed

to

doub

le th

e in

com

e of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

s

Cro

ps a

nd li

vest

ock

prod

uctio

n do

uble

d an

d m

arke

ted

NA

Dou

bled

Inco

me

2025

Out

put -

4.1

.1In

com

e of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers i

ncre

ased

from

the

adop

tion

of a

grib

usin

ess c

rop

prod

uctio

n pr

actic

es Pr

opor

tion

of fa

rmer

s en

gage

d in

agr

ibus

ines

s ac

tiviti

esN

A50

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.1

Con

duct

ba

selin

e su

rvey

of

sm

allh

olde

rs o

n th

eir

prod

uctiv

ity a

nd in

com

e

MoA

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

Benc

hmar

k of

pro

duct

ivity

(in

clud

ing

culti

vatio

n pr

actic

es)

and

inco

me

of

smal

lhol

ders

est

ablis

hed

in

all d

istr

icts

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2020

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.2

Intr

oduc

e vo

uche

r sy

stem

to

in

crea

se

acce

ss

of

smal

lhol

ders

on

in

puts

an

d ex

tens

ion

serv

ices

MoA

D, M

oLD

No.

of

dist

ricts

app

lyin

g vo

uche

r sy

stem

fo

r ex

tend

ing

supp

ort s

ervi

ces

for t

he sm

allh

olde

rs

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2025

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.3

App

ly

conc

essio

nal

taxe

s an

d du

ties

on t

he

agric

ultu

re

mac

hine

ries

and

tool

s

MoA

D, M

oF, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r fa

rmer

s ob

tain

ing

bene

fit o

f fr

om

conc

essio

nal t

axes

app

lied

NA

50%

2025

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.4

Esta

blish

new

col

lect

ion

and

mar

ket c

entr

esM

oAD

, DO

A, N

CD

BN

o. o

f mar

ket f

acili

ties

esta

blish

edN

A75

0 U

nits

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.5

Enga

ge sm

allh

olde

r fa

rmer

s to

incr

ease

thei

r ec

onom

ies o

f sca

le w

ith

colle

ctiv

e pr

oduc

tion

prac

tices

MoA

D, D

oA, D

aDC

, N

CD

B

No.

of s

mal

lhol

der

prod

uctio

n gr

oups

/ co

oper

ativ

es in

volv

ed in

co

llect

ive

prod

uctio

n

NA

750

Gro

ups

2025

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.6

App

ly sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s fo

cuse

d ex

tens

ion

serv

ices

MoA

D, D

oA,

MoL

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

FFS

appr

oach

follo

wed

for

agri

cultu

re e

xten

sion

Valu

e ch

ain

appr

oach

Serv

ice

Exis

tsSe

rvic

e Ta

rget

s D

oubl

ed20

25

Agr

icul

ture

Ext

ensio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e;Li

vest

ock

Serv

ice

Exte

nsio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.7

Stre

ngth

en fa

rm

man

agem

ent c

apac

ity o

f th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

sM

oAD

, DoA

, NC

DB

No.

of p

rodu

cers

/ sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s tr

aine

d on

tech

nica

l and

m

anag

eria

l asp

ects

of f

arm

m

anag

emen

t

NA

18,7

50 P

erso

ns20

25

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.8

Prov

ide

inpu

t sub

sidy

by e

xclu

sivel

y ta

rget

ing

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

MoA

D, M

oF, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O, N

CD

B

Incr

ease

d off

er o

f sub

sidy

on in

puts

targ

eted

to th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s

Subs

idy

Prac

tice

Exits

Dou

ble

the

Am

ount

of

Subs

idy

2025

Coo

pera

tive

Farm

ing,

Sm

all

Irri

gatio

n, F

ertil

izer

and

See

ds

Tran

spor

tatio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.9

Prom

ote

cont

ract

farm

ing

prac

tices

MoL

RM, M

oAD

, D

DC

, VD

C, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O, N

CD

B

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s en

gage

d w

ith b

uyba

ck

guar

ante

e of

pro

duct

sN

A25

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.1

.1.1

0

Dis

sem

inat

e ag

ricul

ture

in

nova

tions

thro

ugh

the

med

ia p

latfo

rms (

radi

o,

new

spap

ers,

TV

etc

.).

MoA

D, D

oA

Mul

ti-m

edia

sour

ces

utili

zatio

n en

gage

d in

dis

sem

inat

ion

of

mes

sage

s (ab

out t

he

new

dev

elop

men

ts

in a

gric

ultu

ral s

eed,

te

chno

logy

, bre

ed a

nd

met

hods

of p

rodu

ctio

n)

Mes

sage

s D

isse

min

ated

Th

roug

h M

ultip

le M

edia

100%

Incr

ease

in

Cov

erag

e20

25A

gric

ultu

re In

form

atio

n an

d C

omm

unic

atio

n C

ente

r

Out

put -

4.1

.2In

com

e of

live

stoc

k ra

isin

g fa

rmer

s inc

reas

ed w

ith

impr

oved

agr

ibus

ines

s pra

ctic

es

% o

f far

mer

s abl

e to

do

uble

thei

r inc

ome

from

ag

ribu

sines

s of l

ives

tock

pr

oduc

t

NA

50%

2025

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.1

Base

line

surv

ey o

f sm

allh

olde

rs o

n th

eir

lives

tock

pro

duct

ivity

and

in

com

e in

all

dist

ricts

MoL

D, D

LS

Benc

hmar

k of

pro

duct

ivity

(in

clud

ing

anim

al

husb

andr

y pr

actic

es a

nd

inco

me)

of s

mal

lhol

der

farm

ers e

stab

lishe

d

NA

75 D

istr

icts

2020

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.2

Esta

blish

reso

urce

cen

tre

for b

reed

impr

ovem

ent

MoL

D, D

LSN

o. o

f res

ourc

e ce

ntre

s fo

r bre

ed im

prov

emen

ts

esta

blish

edN

A7

stat

e 20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.3

Incr

ease

rais

ing

of sm

all

lives

tock

(goa

t, pi

gs a

nd

poul

try)

MoA

D, D

LS, M

oLD

% o

f far

mer

s rai

sing

addi

tiona

l num

ber o

f sm

all

lives

tock

indi

vidu

ally

and

in

gro

ups

NA

100%

2025

Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent P

olic

y, 20

64;

Poul

try

Polic

y, 20

68Ra

ngel

and

Polic

y, 20

68;

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

and

Mar

ket D

evel

opm

ent P

rogr

amm

e,Li

vest

ock

Dev

elop

men

t Ser

vice

Pr

ogra

mm

e (C

ow, B

uffal

o, G

oat

and

othe

r),

Live

stoc

k Se

rvic

e Tr

aini

ng C

entr

e;Li

vest

ock

Serv

ice

Exte

nsio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e.Li

vest

ock

Hea

lth S

ervi

ces

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.4

Incr

ease

rais

ing

of la

rge

anim

als (

such

as c

ow,

buffa

lo) a

s priv

ate

firm

MoL

D, D

LS, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O, N

CD

Bno

of p

rivat

e fir

ms

esta

blish

edN

A15

0020

25Li

vest

ock

Hea

lth S

ervi

ces

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.5

Prio

ritiz

e al

loca

tion

of

a po

rtio

n of

mat

chin

g an

d co

mpe

titiv

e gr

ant t

o th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s fr

om e

ach

dono

r fun

ded

proj

ects

MoA

D, M

oF, N

PC

No.

of g

rant

rece

ivin

g sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s N

AA

ll sm

allh

olde

r fa

rmer

s

2025

Ann

ual P

roje

ct R

epor

ts%

of t

he to

tal g

rant

s di

sbur

sed

for t

he

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

10%

of t

he T

otal

G

rant

exc

lusiv

ely

targ

eted

for t

he

smal

lhol

der

farm

ers

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.6

Prom

ote

scie

ntifi

c m

anag

emen

t and

use

of

publ

ic p

astu

re la

nds

MoL

D, D

LS, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

OIn

crea

se p

astu

re a

reas

us

ed fo

r gra

zing

10

,000

Ha

20,0

00 H

a20

25

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.7

Prov

ide

acce

ss to

ani

mal

he

alth

serv

ices

(bot

h pr

even

tive

and

cura

tive)

MoL

D, D

LS

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s ac

cess

ing

anim

al h

ealth

se

rvic

es o

ffere

d by

the

Live

stoc

k Se

rvic

e C

ente

rs,

Vete

rinar

y H

ospi

tals

, an

d Lo

cal P

arav

ets i

n al

l di

stric

ts

NA

75 %

20

25

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

;Li

vest

ock

Hea

lth S

ervi

ces

Prog

ram

me

;Pr

ojec

t for

Com

mer

cial

A

gric

ultu

re a

nd T

rade

(PA

CT

);A

gro

Busin

ess P

rom

otio

n an

d M

arke

t Dev

elop

men

t Pro

gram

me;

Rani

Jam

ara

Kula

riya

Irri

gatio

n Pr

ojec

t (sy

stem

mod

erni

zatio

n,

agri

cultu

re p

rogr

amm

e),

Fish

ery

Dev

elop

men

t Pro

gram

me

Act

ivity

4.1

.2.8

Subs

idiz

e ru

ral p

arav

et

serv

ices

MoL

D, P

riva

te

Sect

or P

arav

ets

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s ac

cess

ing

para

vet s

ervi

ce

at a

min

imiz

ed c

ost

NA

75 %

2025

Out

com

e - 4

.2A

gric

ultu

ral i

nves

tmen

ts in

crea

sed

in th

e sm

all

farm

s%

of a

gric

ultu

ral

inve

stm

ent i

ncre

ased

NA

100

%20

25

Out

put –

4.2

.1A

cces

s of s

mal

l far

ms t

o th

e in

stitu

tiona

l fina

nce

serv

ices

incr

ease

d

% o

f far

mer

s acc

essin

g m

ultip

le-s

ourc

es o

f fin

anci

al re

sour

ces

NA

100

%20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.1

Supp

ort s

mal

lhol

der

farm

s with

inst

itutio

nal

cred

it se

rvic

es

MoA

D, M

oF, N

RB,

DoC

oop,

NC

DB

% o

f bor

row

ers a

cces

sing

inst

itutio

nal c

redi

t ,N

A50

%

2025

Nat

iona

l Agr

icul

ture

Pol

icy,

2004

Nat

iona

l Coo

pera

tive

Polic

y, 20

69;

Mic

ro E

nter

pris

e D

evel

opm

ent

Prog

ram

me

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.2

Mak

e pr

iorit

y se

ctor

le

ndin

g m

anda

tory

to

reac

h th

e sm

allh

olde

r fa

rms

AD

B/N

, MFI

s, N

RB,

Com

mer

cial

Ban

ks,

NC

DB

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s se

rved

by

the

finan

cial

in

stitu

tions

; N

A50

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.3

Redu

ce in

tere

st ra

te o

f ag

ricul

tura

l loa

ns ta

rget

ed

to th

e sm

allh

olde

rs

AD

B/N

, NRB

C

omm

erci

al B

anks

, N

CD

B, ,

MFI

s

Com

mer

cial

ban

k po

licie

s pro

vidi

ng

favo

urab

le tr

eatm

ent f

or

the

agri

cultu

ral s

ecto

r lo

ans t

arge

ted

for t

he

smal

lhol

der p

rodu

cers

12%

6%

2018

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.4

Incr

ease

acc

ess o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s to

the

conc

essio

nal l

oans

AD

B/N

, MFI

s, N

RB,

Com

mer

cial

Ban

ks,

NC

DB

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s ac

cess

ing

conc

essio

nal

loan

s at 6

% in

tere

st

Prov

isio

n ex

ists

100

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.5

Sim

plify

lend

ing

proc

edur

es

AD

B/N

, Com

mer

cial

Ba

nks,

NC

DB,

M

FIs,

NRB

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s ab

le to

take

loan

on

grou

p gu

aran

tee

basi

sN

A25

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.6

Prov

ide

ince

ntiv

e to

the

farm

ers f

or in

vest

ing

and

re-in

vest

ing

deci

sions

fo

r the

inte

nsifi

catio

n of

ag

ricul

tura

l act

iviti

es

MoA

D, A

DB/

N, N

RB

Com

mer

cial

Ban

ks,

NC

DB,

MFI

s

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s us

ing

thei

r ear

ning

s and

lo

ans f

or th

e ex

pans

ion

of

thei

r agr

icul

ture

bus

ines

s

NA

25 %

2025

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.7

Prom

ote

grou

p sa

ving

s an

d cr

edit

serv

ices

NC

DB,

SC

Gs

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s jo

inin

g sa

ving

s and

cre

dit

grou

psPr

actic

e ex

ists

100

%20

25N

atio

nal C

oope

rativ

e Po

licy,

2069

Act

ivity

4.2

.1.8

Mob

ilize

coo

pera

tives

to

supp

ort a

gric

ultu

ral v

alue

ch

ains

MoA

D, D

oCoo

p,

NC

DB

% o

f coo

pera

tives

su

ppor

ting

valu

e ch

ain

activ

ities

(with

supp

ort

for t

rain

ing,

fina

nce

and

mar

ketin

g)

NA

25 %

2025

Nat

iona

l Coo

pera

tive

Polic

y, 20

69;

Mic

ro E

nter

pris

e D

evel

opm

ent

Prog

ram

me;

Nat

iona

l Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent

Boar

d (S

peci

al M

ilk P

rodu

ctio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e)

Out

put -

4.2

.2Sm

all f

arm

s pro

tect

ed a

gain

st th

eir i

nves

tmen

t ri

sks o

n ag

ricul

tura

l pro

duct

ion,

pro

cess

ing

and

mar

ketin

g

% o

f far

mer

s pro

tect

ed

by c

rop

and

lives

tock

in

sura

nce

cove

rage

N

A10

0 %

2025

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.1

Incr

ease

the

num

ber

of fa

rmer

s obt

aini

ng

insu

ranc

e fo

r the

secu

rity

of th

eir c

rops

and

liv

esto

ck p

rodu

ctio

n an

d en

terp

rise

in c

ase

of

failu

re

MoA

D, I

nsur

ance

C

ompa

ny, N

CD

B%

of f

arm

hou

seho

lds

insu

red

Prac

tice

exis

ts10

0 %

20

25C

rop

and

Live

stoc

k In

sura

nce

Polic

y


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.2

Tailo

r fina

ncia

l pro

duct

s to

the

need

of s

mal

lhol

der

farm

ers

Fina

ncia

l In

stitu

tions

, NC

DB

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r bo

rrow

ers a

cces

sing

cred

itN

A50

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.2

.2.3

Prom

ote

stre

ss to

lera

nt

crop

var

ietie

s and

bre

ed

to m

itiga

te th

e ad

vers

e eff

ect o

f clim

ate

chan

ge to

sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s

MoA

D ,

MoL

D,

Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO,

NC

DB

No.

of r

esea

rch

activ

ities

co

nduc

ted

to p

rom

ote

and

deve

lop

stre

ss to

lera

nt

crop

var

ietie

s and

the

lives

tock

bre

ed

NA

Stre

ss to

lera

nt

varie

ties o

f maj

or

cere

al c

rops

2025

Out

com

e –

4.3

Inco

me

of sm

all f

arm

s dou

bled

with

acc

ess t

o di

vers

ified

em

ploy

men

t opp

ortu

nitie

s

Inco

me

of y

outh

s dou

bled

as

a re

sult

of e

arni

ngs

doub

led

from

the

mul

tiple

em

ploy

men

t sou

rces

NA

Dou

bled

inco

me

2025

Out

put –

4.3

.1U

nem

ploy

ed sm

all f

arm

you

ths e

arni

ng in

com

e w

ith a

cces

s to

new

em

ploy

men

t opp

ortu

nity

in th

e fa

rm, o

ff-fa

rm a

nd n

on-f

arm

sect

ors

% o

f you

ths e

ngag

ed in

the

farm

, off-

farm

and

non

-fa

rm a

ctiv

ities

NA

100

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.1

Mak

e ag

ricu

ltura

l sm

allh

olde

r agr

icul

ture

in

com

e lu

crat

ive

AD

B/N

and

oth

er

Bank

s, N

CD

B, M

oAD

;

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r fa

rmer

s attr

acte

d to

w

ork

on a

gric

ultu

re d

ue

to su

bsid

ized

inpu

ts,

tran

spor

t sub

sidy,

equi

pmen

t sup

port

and

bu

y ba

ck g

uara

ntee

of

out

put a

t a p

re-s

et

Min

imum

Sup

port

Pric

e

NA

100

%20

25La

bour

and

Em

ploy

men

t Pol

icy,

2012

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.2

Enco

urag

e sm

all s

cale

ag

ro-p

roce

ssor

to

enha

nce

effici

ency

of

thei

r pro

duct

ion

proc

ess

with

the

appl

icat

ion

of

alte

rnat

e en

ergy

sour

ces

AEP

C, D

CSI

, C

TEV

T, M

oAD

, WB,

N

CD

B

% o

f sm

all s

cale

agr

o-pr

oces

sors

switc

hing

fr

om th

e ap

plic

atio

n of

m

anua

l ope

ratio

n of

the

proc

essin

g w

ork

to th

e m

echa

nize

d w

ork

NA

50 %

2025

Agr

o Bu

sines

s Pro

mot

ion

Polic

y, 20

06; N

atio

nal Y

outh

Pol

icy;

Im

mig

ratio

n Ru

les,

1994

;A

gro

Busin

ess P

rom

otio

n an

d M

arke

t Dev

elop

men

t Pro

gram

;Pr

ojec

t for

Com

mer

cial

A

gric

ultu

re a

nd T

rade

(PA

CT

),N

epal

Tra

de In

tegr

atio

n St

rate

gy

(NT

IS) 2

010;

Nat

iona

l Dai

ry D

evel

opm

ent

Boar

d (S

peci

al M

ilk P

rodu

ctio

n Pr

ogra

mm

e);

Seri

cultu

re D

evel

opm

ent

Prog

ram

me;

Indu

stri

al E

ntom

olog

y,A

gric

ultu

re In

form

atio

n an

d C

omm

unic

atio

n C

ente

r

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.3

Agr

icul

tura

l wor

kers

ha

ving

opp

ortu

nitie

s for

ye

ar-r

ound

wor

k in

the

farm

, off-

farm

and

non

-fa

rm se

ctor

s

DC

SI, C

TEV

T,

MoA

D, M

oCPA

, M

oYS,

Priv

ate

Sect

or

Ente

rpri

ses

No.

of n

ew e

mpl

oym

ent

oppo

rtun

ities

gen

erat

ed

in th

e fa

rm, o

ff-fa

rm a

nd

non-

farm

sect

ors a

nnua

lly

NA

20,0

00 Jo

bs20

25


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.4

Enga

ge w

omen

in th

e in

com

e ge

nera

ting

activ

ities

(IG

As)

MoA

D, D

aDC

, C

TEV

T,D

CSI

% o

f wom

en in

volv

ed in

th

e IG

As (

at th

e fa

rm, o

ff-fa

rm a

nd n

on-f

arm

leve

ls)N

A50

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.5

Enha

nce

busin

ess

plan

ning

and

man

agem

ent

capa

city

of t

he

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

MoA

D, D

CSI

, NC

DB

No.

of s

mal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

trai

ned

in b

usin

ess

plan

ning

and

man

agem

ent

for t

he e

stab

lishm

ent

and

oper

atio

n of

new

en

terp

rise

s ann

ually

NA

as p

er n

eed

2025

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.6

Prot

ect s

elf-

empl

oyed

en

trep

rene

urs b

y ta

xing

im

port

of t

he p

rodu

cts

that

com

pete

with

loca

l pr

oduc

tion

MoF

, MoA

D,

MoC

Smal

lhol

der p

rodu

cers

pr

otec

ted

with

taxe

s lev

ied

on th

e im

port

com

petin

g w

ith lo

cal p

rodu

cts

NA

Prot

ectio

n Po

licy

2025

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.7

Enga

ge sm

allh

olde

r fa

rmer

gro

ups i

n pr

oduc

ing

NT

FPs a

nd

MA

Ps o

n th

e le

aseh

old

and

com

mun

ity fo

rest

ar

eas

MoA

D, M

oFSC

, NPC

, PO

, Kri

shak

San

jal

No.

of s

mal

lhol

der

farm

ers’

grou

ps e

ngag

ed

in p

rodu

cing

NT

FPs a

nd

MA

Ps in

the

com

mun

ity

and

leas

ehol

d fo

rest

are

as

NA

500

Gro

ups

2025

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.8

Build

cap

acity

of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers f

or

oper

atin

g ag

ro- t

ouri

sm

busin

ess a

s an

alte

rnat

e so

urce

of i

ncom

e

MoC

TCA

, MoA

D,

NPC

, PO

, Kri

shak

Sa

njal

No.

of s

mal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

trai

ned

on a

gro-

tour

ism

ac

tiviti

es

NA

3,75

0 Pe

rson

s20

25

Act

ivity

4.3

.1.9

Prom

ote

prod

uctio

n an

d tr

ade

of h

igh

valu

e ag

ricul

tura

l pro

duct

s

MoA

D,

,FN

CC

I,MoT

CA

C,

IFA

D

% o

f far

mer

s eng

aged

in

the

prod

uctio

n an

d tr

ade

off-s

easo

n ve

geta

bles

, se

eds,

yak

chee

se, a

pple

, m

edic

inal

her

bs, g

arlic

, ho

ney

and

NT

FPs

NA

50 %

2025

Hig

h Va

lue

Agr

icul

ture

Pro

ject

in

Hill

and

Mou

ntai

n A

reas

(HVA

P)

Out

put –

4.3

.2In

crea

sed

acce

ss o

f sm

all f

arm

s to

land

and

oth

er

prod

uctiv

e na

tura

l res

ourc

es

% o

f hou

seho

lds h

avin

g in

crea

sed

acce

ss to

pr

oduc

tive

natu

ral

reso

urce

s

NA

100

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.1

Mak

e th

e la

nd la

w

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

sens

itive

MoL

RM, M

oAD

, M

oLJP

A, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

Law

ena

cted

to p

rovi

de

addi

tiona

l lan

d ac

cess

to

the

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers

NA

Law

Ena

cted

2025

Nat

iona

l Lan

d U

tiliz

atio

n Po

licy,

2069

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.2

Leas

e fo

rest

are

as to

the

smal

lhol

der g

roup

s for

th

eir e

ngag

emen

t in

the

larg

er si

zed

prod

uctiv

e ac

tiviti

es

MoF

SC, M

oAD

No.

of l

ease

d fo

rest

ar

eas p

rovi

ded

to th

e sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s’ gr

oups

for a

gro-

fore

stry

ac

tiviti

es

NA

500

Gro

ups

2025


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.3

App

ly la

nd u

tiliz

atio

n pr

ovis

ion

for t

he

tran

sfer

of f

allo

w la

nd

to th

e cu

ltiva

tors

on

a co

ntra

ctua

l bas

is

MoL

RM, M

oAD

, M

oLJP

A, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

Law

s and

regu

latio

ns

intr

oduc

ed a

nd a

pplie

d fo

r tem

pora

ry le

asin

g pr

actic

es

NA

Law

ena

cted

2025

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.4

Util

ize

was

te la

nd fo

r pr

oduc

tive

purp

ose

MoL

RM, M

oAD

, D

oA, N

CD

B

% o

f sm

allh

olde

r far

mer

s br

ingi

ng fa

llow

land

(p

ublic

and

priv

ate

land

in

clud

ing

river

bed

) br

ough

t und

er c

ultiv

atio

n

NA

10 0

%20

25

Act

ivity

4.3

.2.5

Esta

blish

dat

abas

e w

ith

disa

ggre

gate

d fig

ures

on

the

cont

ribut

ion

of

smal

lhol

der f

arm

ers i

n pr

oduc

tion

and

thei

r in

com

e le

vels

MoA

D

Base

line

info

rmat

ion

avai

labl

e fo

r com

pari

son

of p

rogr

ess a

fter t

he

impl

emen

tatio

n of

the

NA

P, 2

025

NA

Base

line

Repo

rt20

18

PILL

AR

– V

ZERO

FO

OD

LO

SS A

ND

WA

STE

Out

com

e - 5

.1Fo

od a

vaila

bilit

y fo

r util

izat

ion

incr

ease

d w

ith th

e co

ntro

l of l

oss a

nd w

aste

in th

e fo

od c

hain

% o

f foo

d ch

ain

acto

rs

bene

fitin

g fr

om in

crea

sed

utili

zatio

n of

food

due

to

redu

ced

food

loss

and

w

aste

NA

100

%20

25

Out

put -

5.1

.1K

now

ledg

e an

d sk

ills o

f the

food

cha

in a

ctor

s im

prov

ed in

con

trol

ling

loss

and

was

te o

f foo

d

% o

f foo

d ch

ain

acto

rs

trai

ned

to c

ontr

ol lo

ss o

f fo

odN

AA

s per

nee

ded

2025

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.1

Con

duct

a st

udy

to

iden

tify

maj

or fo

od lo

ss

poin

ts, c

ause

s and

the

mag

nitu

de o

f los

s at

diffe

rent

leve

ls of

food

su

pply

and

util

izat

ion

chai

ns

DoA

, DFT

QC

, MoA

D,

MoL

D, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

, Con

sum

ers

Stud

y co

nduc

ted

on m

ajor

fo

od lo

ss a

nd w

asta

ge

area

s in

the

supp

ly c

hain

s N

ASt

udy

Repo

rt20

20

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.2

Esta

blish

dat

abas

e an

d m

onito

r ann

ual l

oss t

o de

velo

p an

d im

plem

ent

loss

con

trol

pla

nsD

oA, M

oAD

, MoL

DM

onito

r pos

t-ha

rves

t ha

ndlin

g lo

ss o

f var

ious

co

mm

oditi

es

NA

Mon

itorin

gSy

stem

will

be

in

plac

e20

20


Pilla

rs, O

utco

mes

, Out

puts

and

Act

iviti

esC

olla

bora

ting

Age

ncie

sIn

dica

tors

Base

line1

Targ

etTa

rget

Yea

rRe

late

d Po

licy/

Stra

tegy

and

Pr

ojec

tsRe

mar

ks

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.3

Cre

ate

awar

enes

s am

ong

all s

take

hold

ers a

bout

the

way

s of r

educ

ing

food

lo

ss/w

asta

ge

MoA

D, D

FTQ

C,

MoL

D, I

FAD

, K

rish

ak S

anja

l, PO

, Tr

ansp

orte

rs, T

rade

rs,

Con

sum

ers

% o

f sta

keho

lder

s [H

arve

ster

s, Pr

oces

sors

, St

ore

keep

ers,

Tran

spor

ters

, Tra

ders

(w

hole

sale

r, re

taile

rs,

food

ven

dors

etc

.), a

nd

Con

sum

ers]

kno

win

g th

e te

chni

ques

of m

inim

izin

g lo

sses

in th

e fo

od su

pply

ch

ain:

NA

100%

2020

MO

AD

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.4

Trai

n fa

rmer

s to

redu

ce

post

-har

vest

loss

DoA

, MoA

D, M

oLD

, IF

AD

, Kri

shak

San

jal,

PO

No.

of f

arm

ers,

trai

ned

on

the

met

hods

of r

educ

ing

post

-har

vest

loss

of

vario

us a

gric

ultu

ral a

nd

lives

tock

com

mod

ities

NA

as

per

nee

ded

2025

MO

AD

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.5

Trai

n pr

oduc

ers,

stor

ekee

pers

, tra

nspo

rter

s an

d tr

ader

s for

zer

o-lo

ss

food

han

dlin

g m

etho

ds in

st

orin

g th

e fo

od c

rops

and

liv

esto

ck p

rodu

cts

DoA

, MoA

D;

MoL

D, I

FAD

, AD

B,

Tran

spor

ters

, Tra

ders

, C

onsu

mer

s

No.

of p

rodu

cers

, sto

re

keep

ers,

tran

spor

ters

and

tr

ader

s tra

ined

NA

18

,750

Per

sons

2025

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.6

Dev

elop

gui

delin

e on

fo

od w

aste

pre

vent

ion

tech

niqu

es fo

r diff

eren

t le

vels

of th

e va

lue

chai

n

DoA

, MoA

DG

uide

line

on th

e fo

od

was

te p

reve

ntio

n te

chni

ques

dev

elop

edN

AG

uide

line

2020

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.7

Ado

pt N

eKSA

P as

a fo

od

secu

rity

mon

itorin

g to

ol

at th

e na

tiona

l lev

elM

oAD

, NPC

, WFP

NeK

SAP

mon

itorin

g to

ol

adop

ted

for n

atio

nal f

ood

secu

rity

asse

ssm

ent

Info

rmat

ion

of

Sele

cted

Dis

tric

ts

in u

se75

Dis

tric

ts20

18

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.8

Dis

sem

inat

e th

e gu

idel

ines

wid

ely

thro

ugh

diffe

rent

med

ia

DoA

, MoA

D, K

rish

ak

Sanj

al, P

O

Key

mes

sage

on

prev

entin

g fo

od lo

ss

and

was

te d

isse

min

ated

th

roug

h di

ffere

nt m

edia

(T

V, F

M, P

oste

rs,

Pam

phle

ts, N

ewsp

aper

et

c.) a

mon

g al

l val

ue c

hain

ac

tors

han

dlin

g fo

od

NA

Use

of M

ultip

le

Med

ia fo

r M

essa

ge

Dis

sem

inat

ion

2020

Act

ivity

5.1

.1.9

Trai

n co

nsum

ers o

n th

e te

chni

ques

of f

ood

pres

erva

tion,

pro

cess

ing,

an

d m

inim

izat

ion

of lo

ss

durin

g th

e co

nsum

ptio

n pr

oces

s (e.

g. d

ue to

th

row

ing

of le

ftove

r foo

d)

DFT

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Annex – III

Estimation of Output-wise Cost

Pillars, Outcomes and Outputs Estimated Cost

PILLAR - I 100 % EQUITABLE ACCESS TO ADEQUATE, NUTRITIOUS AND AFFORDABLE FOOD ALL YEAR ROUND

Outcome - 1.1 Nepal’s Constitutional Rights to Food Sovereignty materialized with increased access of all people to food

Output - 1.1.1 Laws to ensure rights to food sovereignty formulated and enforced 2,828.5

Output - 1.1.2 Increased access to inputs for the production of food crops 24,758.1 Output - 1.1.3 Increased access to livestock products 19,789.4 Output - 1.1.4 Increased access to production infrastructure 20,945.2

Output - 1.1.5 Linkage between the research and extension services strengthened 11,257.6

Output - 1.1.6 Women’s role in productive activities enhanced 11,288.3

Output - 1.1.7 Cultivation of crops promoted by their suitability to different ecological conditions 21,679.5

Outcome – 1.2 Adequate affordable nutritious food available for equitable utilization

Output - 1.2.1 Household incomes of the poor enhanced for food affordability 6,660.5

Output - 1.2.2 Food distribution system strengthened to ensure local availability 8,105.4

PILLAR - II ZERO STUNTED CHILDREN LESS THAN 2 YEARS OF AGE Outcome - 2.1 Nutrition sensitive agricultural system promoted

Output – 2.1.1Local food production system diversified with focus on unconventional nutritious crops, fruits, vegetables for their increased consumption

7,221.8

Output – 2.1.2 Local production of animal source products enhanced for consumption by the smallholder family members 6,638.2

Outcome - 2.2 Enhanced access and utilization of safe, nutritious and diverse food among the poor households followed by improved health and nutrition services

Output – 2.2.1Strengthened capacity of farmers, mother groups and small cooperatives on the storage and processing of food including their preparation and preservation at the community level

10,130.0

Output – 2.2.2

Nutrition education related information disseminated applying food based dietary guidelines and healthy diet practices with the promotion of health, agriculture and social protection services

9,060.0

Output - 2.2.3

Food based nutrition related advocacy and capacity building competence of the frontline workers, agriculture extension workers, social workers and health professionals enhanced at all levels

9,072.0

Output - 2.2.4 Nutrition services improved with integration of health services 4,580.5


Pillars, Outcomes and Outputs Estimated Cost

Output - 2.2.5 Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition practices improved with special focus on improving the dietary diversity 4,840.0

Outcome - 2.3 Enabling environment created for multi-sector coordination for coherent, functional and concerted actions for nutrition at all levels

Output - 2.3.1Institutional as well as human resource capacity of the government sector functionaries improved for addressing the issue of food and nutrition security at all levels

3,020.0

PILLAR – III ALL FOOD SYSTEMS ARE SUSTAINABLE Outcome - 3.1 Sustainably managed productive natural resources for food productionOutput - 3.1.1 Watershed safeguarded against deterioration 1,066.27

Output - 3.1.2 Farm water and soil managed by retaining their contributions to productive uses 567.5

Output - 3.1.3 Farmers’ capacity strengthened to cope with the adverse effects of climate change and natural disasters 1,258.7

Output – 3.1.4 Land reform practices applied 490.0 Outcome 3.2 Quality and safety standards maintained in the food chains

Output - 3.2.1 Food handling system founded with national quality and safety standards 457.1

Output - 3.2.2 Access to food chain markets improved 1,010.5 PILLAR – IV 100 % INCREASE IN SMALLHOLDER PRODUCTIVITY AND INCOME Outcome – 4.1 Productivity of crop and livestock increased to double the income of smallholder farms

Output - 4.1.1 Income of smallholder farmers increased from the adoption of agribusiness crop production practices 14,278.2

Output - 4.1.2 Income of livestock raising farmers increased with improved agribusiness practices 10,109.5

Outcome - 4.2 Agricultural investments increased in the small farms

Output – 4.2.1 Access of small farms to the institutional finance services increased 7,194.5

Output - 4.2.2 Small farms protected against their investment risks on agricultural production, processing and marketing 3,585.7

Outcome – 4.3 Income of small farms increased with access to diversified employment opportunities

Output – 4.3.1Unemployed small farm youths earning income with access to new employment opportunity in the farm, off-farm and non-farm sectors

7,692.6

Output – 4.3.2 Increased access of small farms to land and other productive natural resources 8,064.5

PILLAR – V ZERO LOSS OR WASTE OF FOOD

Outcome - 5.1 Food availability for utilization increased with the control of loss and waste in the food chain

Output - 5.1.1 Knowledge and skills of the food chain actors improved in controlling loss and waste of food 1,833.1

Output 5.1.2 Access to control infrastructures preventing loss and waste in the food chain improved 3,016.9

Total 242,500.0


Annex - IV

Priority Framework and Information Systems Complementing to the Implementation Process

Following frameworks are expected to contribute to the coordination of implementation process of NAP as they also prioritize increased production and the development of markets for food and nutrition security.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): The formulation of SDGs has set an agenda for eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable development by 2030 under its 17 Goals framework. Its successful accomplishment requires achievement of progress on the economic, social and environmental fronts. Under its 17 Goals, 169 targets are set emphasizing on poverty reduction, access to employment, better management of natural resources, development of supportive infrastructures, creation of alternative avenues for economic growth, coping with the effects of climate change, promotion of the social inclusion process, and establishment of accountable governance system leading towards sustainable development process. In order to accomplish success over these targets, mobilizing support of related stakeholders from public and private sectors and the CSOs is necessary.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Despite frequently troubling political instability coupled with the absence of locally elected representatives and the prolonged transition of peace process, Nepal’s performance can still be considered effective for the progress it could attain against most of the MDG indicators. According to the MDG Progress Report, 2013 the government took remarkable strides in achieving success closer towards the indicators like reduction of poverty and hunger, increase in the school enrolment rate and decrease in the Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR). The progress is noticeable on women empowerment, environmental sustainability and global partnership for development. However, the task is not yet over and further efforts are required for enhancing production, improving governance to address the issues of disparity and inequality in food distribution, creation of new employment opportunities, and adaptation to the climate change risks.

Within the MDG period, Nepal successfully narrowed down its poverty level from 42 percent (recorded in 1990) to 23.8 percent (in 2013). This decline indicates positive sign of progress. However, its retention and even achieving more progress, requires greater emphasis on enhancing domestic production. It is necessary because the current foundation of reported progress is largely based on remittance sent by the Nepalese youths working abroad which may simply be a transitional phenomenon. To avoid the risk of going down to the spiral again the country needs to increase investment in productive agriculture to maintain food security and also to control the likely occurrence of malnutrition.

The Goals set under the MDGs and SDGs are as follows:

Table – 1: Goals Set by the MDG and SDG FrameworksMDGs (2000-2015) SDGs (2016-2030)Goal-1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Goal-1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere

Goal-2: Achieve universal primary education

Goal-2: End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture

Goal-3: Promote gender equality and empower women

Goal-3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Goal-4: Reduce child mortality Goal-4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all


MDGs (2000-2015) SDGs (2016-2030)Goal-5: Improve maternal health Goal-5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girlsGoal-6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

Goal-6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Goal-7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Goal-7: Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all

Goal-8: Develop a global partnership for development

Goal-8: Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for allGoal-9: Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovationGoal-10: Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal-11: Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal-12: Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal-13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impactsGoal-14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable developmentGoal-15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity lossGoal-16: Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal-17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development

Multi-sectoral Nutrition Plan (MSNP): The MSNP for reducing malnutrition has been prepared under the lead of NPC engaging related government agencies. It serves as a common results framework for improving nutrition outcomes; and setting out plans of action for implementing nutrition-sensitive policies and strategies for the key sectors of development, including agriculture and food security, public health, and education. Its objectives are to reduce the prevalence of stunting among children under five to below 29 percent, to reduce the prevalence of underweight to below 20 percent; to reduce the prevalence of wasting among children under five to below 5 percent, and to reduce under-nutrition among women 15–49 years of age (BMI<18.5kg/m2) by 15 percent. It has identified gaps and future needs to implement the plan effectively.

The total cost of MSNP for the activities extended over five years is approximately $193 million. This is equivalent to an annual cost of approximately $39 million or a per capita annual cost of just over $1. It has proposed nutrition-sensitive approach dedicated to support food security. It also aims at strengthening governance to reinforce nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches. The Plan emphasizes on strengthening of multi-sectoral nutrition information system to track the progress of MSNP implementation, with links to existing food security early warning system.

The poor are not simply waiting for hand-outs; they are looking for economic opportunities, food on their table, and a safe home for their families; like all of us.

Kanayo F. Nwanze, IFAD President, Keynote Statement for a Sustainable Food Future, December 7, 2015


It has emphasized establishment of basket fund expecting to receive support from the government and other development partners. The NPC has been designated as in-charge of releasing funds to the sectors of development including the districts. It expects to meet the funding gap from both domestic and external sources.

Scaling-Up Nutrition (SUN): SUN is a global movement uniting all national leaders, civil society, bilateral and multilateral organizations, donors, businesses, and researchers in a collective effort to improve nutrition. The World Bank (WB) is the donor convener for SUN in Nepal. SUN’s priority commitments in Nepal are to implement and scale up evidence-based, cost-effective nutrition-programmes under the MSNP and FSNP by strengthening their related components with the links established with early warning system for food security. SUN has a Multi-Partner Trust Fund. It supports civil society organizations (CSOs) to establish sustainable as well as inclusive civil society alliance on nutrition.

Nepal joined the SUN Movement in May 2011. It has appointed the Head of the Social Development Division, NPC Secretariat as the SUN Focal Point. High Level Nutrition and Food Security Steering Committee meetings are hosted by the NPC. These meetings are chaired by the Vice Chairman of the NPC and the WB is SUN Donor Convener.

2nd International Conference on Nutrition: Nepal is signatory to ICN2 Framework for Action and Rome Declaration on Nutrition which was jointly organised by FAO and World Health Organization (WHO) in November 2014. The conference was able to bring the global attention on addressing malnutrition in all its forms. It reaffirms the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food, consistent with the right to adequate food and the fundamental right of everyone to be free from hunger. It highlights the importance of nutrition policies should promote a diversified, balanced and healthy diet at all stages of life. It also focuses on coordinated action among different actors, across all relevant sectors at international, regional, national and community levels, which needs to be supported through cross-cutting and coherent policies, programmes and initiatives, including social protection, to address the multiple burdens of malnutrition and to promote sustainable food systems.

Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS), 2015: Nepal’s agricultural sector was not performing so well than today when the Agriculture Perspective Plan (APP) was launched in 1995-96. Improvements have taken place over the years since then influencing the living standards of people relatively better with respect to enhanced productivity, infrastructure development, food security, and poverty reduction. However, the challenge of food deficit is still to be overcome.

Nepal’s agricultural growth is about 3 percent per year. It is highly variable also. The country’s productive youth labour force has mostly overlooked this sector due to the attraction towards foreign jobs. This has been a growing trend in the recent years. The remittance sent by these job holders occupies more than 25 percent of GDP. It has generated scope for increased capital formation and local investments in the country.

APP was based on a narrow view of technology focused on green revolution which was inappropriate for large parts of the Nepali agro-ecology. As a result, leading stakeholders such as producer farmers, private sector entrepreneurs, and the cooperatives were less involved than expected in its implementation. The ADS has been prepared in the foundation of these lessons obtained from APP. It emphasizes on improved governance, effective participation of stakeholders, providing land access to producers, decentralized research and extension services, and the promotion of agri-business.

ADS plans to promote agri-business and non-farm rural development activities relatively to agriculture side by side. Strengthened linkages between agriculture and other sectors of development in the economy have been considered critical to the reduction of poverty. Accordingly, it plans to develop non-farm activities based on agriculture as fundamental element for growth of the rural economy. It emphasizes on the balanced development of the rural economy with increased opportunities for employment generation. In these contexts, ADS considers development of the agricultural sector in its composite structure encompassing not only the production sectors (crops, livestock, fisheries


and forestry) but also the processing sector, trade and other services (such as storage, transportation, finance, marketing, research, and extension).14

The ADS emphasizes on the growth of agricultural sector with promotion of inclusiveness (both social and geographic). Sustainability (both in terms of natural and economic resources) is its priority. Participation of private sector and cooperative sector are emphasized. Connectivity to market infrastructure (e.g. agricultural roads, collection centres, packing houses, market centres) has remained its concern. The support measures like information infrastructure and ICT, power infrastructure (e.g. rural electrification, renewable and alternative energy sources) have remained its concern too. These inclusive, multi-sector, and connectivity-based growth approach are expected to enhance food and nutrition security, reduce poverty, improve access to markets generating equitable income of the rural households, while strengthening the farmers’ rights.

Source: ADS (2015), Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) 2015 to 2035, Government of Nepal, MoAD, Singhadurbar, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Figure 1: Strategic Framework Followed by the Agricultural Development Strategy, Nepal

ADS moves with a vision for self-reliant, sustainable, competitive, and inclusive agricultural sector that drives economic growth and contributes to improve livelihoods with food and nutrition security leading to food sovereignty enshrined in the Nepalese Constitution. Various indicators and targets set to monitor progress towards its vision are as follows:

14 ADS (2015). Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) 2015 - 2035, Government of Nepal, Ministry of Agricultural Development, Singhadurbar, Kathmandu, Nepal.


Table 2: Indicators and Targets for ADS Vision

Vision Indicators Existing Situation (2010)

Target Short Term (5 years)

Target Medium Term (10 years)

Target Long Term (20 years)

Self-reliance Self-sufficiency in food grains

5% trade deficit in food grains

0% trade deficit 0-5% trade surplus 0-5% trade surplus

Sustainability

Year-round irrigation 18% coverage 30% 60% 80%

Soil organic matter 1% 2% 4% 4%Ha of degraded land 3.2 million ha 2.88 million ha 2.56 million ha 1.6 million ha Forest cover 40% 40% 40% 40%Agricultural land productivity (AGDP/ha) $1,804 $2,302 $2,938 $4,787

Agribusiness as % of GDP 10% 12% 14% 20%

CompetitivenessAgricultural trade balance

Trade deficit $350 million

Trade deficit $310 million)

Trade deficit $181 million

Trade surplus $690 million

Agricultural Exports $248 million $418 million $704 million $1,999 million

Inclusiveness

% of farm land solely or jointly owned by women 10% 15% 30% 50%

% of farmers reached by agricultural programmes 12% 17% 22% 30%

Agricultural Growth

Average annual growth of AGDP 3% 4% 5% 6%

Livelihoods

AGDP/ Agricultural labour $794 $979 $1,206 $1,833

Poverty in Rural Areas 27% 21% 16% 10%

Food and Nutrition Security

Food Poverty 24% 16% 11% 5%Nutrition- Stunting 41.5% 29% 20% 8%- Underweight 31.1% 20% 13% 5%- Wasting; 13.7% 5% 2% 1%- Women with low BMI

18% 15% 13% 5%

Source: ADS (2015), Agriculture Development Strategy (ADS) 2015 - 2035, Government of Nepal, MoAD, Singhadurbar, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Annual cost estimated for the ADS is NRs. 50.2 billion. Of this, 89 percent is expected to be mobilized from the government source and donor support, while the remaining 11% is expected to be mobilized from private sector. Around 37 percent of the total programme cost is allocated for Flagship Programmes.

Food and Nutrition Security Plan (FNSP): The MoAD prepared FNSP as a national programme for food and nutrition security. It complements to the activities proposed under the MSNP. It helps to accelerate reduction of maternal and child under-nutrition problems in Nepal.

Major objective of the FNSP is to reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty among the poorest households. It emphasizes sustainable agriculture base for the improvement of their livelihoods. It targets poorest households identifying them as hard-core poor, ultra poor and medium poor. Major activities covered by the FNSP are: human nutrition, field crops, horticulture, livestock, forestry and fisheries development. It highlights the need for responsive interventions with wider geographical coverage. Enhanced communication and networking with accelerated speed of delivering the services are its priorities.


Information System – NeKSAP: Nepal Khadya Surakshya Anugaman Pranali (NeKSAP) is one of the established food security monitoring system implemented in Nepal. It is working in collaboration with WFP and the MoAD. It covers 72 out of 75 districts (excluding three districts of Kathmandu Valley) remained in the country. It applies household as well as area based classification systems. Its smallest unit of analysis is VDC.

NeKSAP determined household level classification on the basis on survey conducted every three months in a year. Seventeen indicators are applied to assess the magnitude of food security condition or an area. They are: food consumption; livelihood change (and coping strategies); acute child malnutrition (6-59m), wasting as per the prevalence of Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM); crop production situation; food stock at household level; stock of main staples in key markets (food availability in the market); employment opportunities within and neighbouring districts; income through sales: NTFP, cash/high value crops, and small enterprises; income: meat, milk, egg, fish, honey; market price of main staple like rice, wheat flour, and others; remittances; human disease incidence, and epidemics; water supply for drinking, sanitation; out-migration (stress induced); civil security (social violence, and bandh/blockade); climatic hazards: floods, landslides, dry spell, snowfall, hailstorm , and strong wind; and the disasters caused by earthquake and fire. These indicators represent four dimensions of food security Viz food availability, food access, food utilization and stability. Based on these indicators, the food security condition of an area is categorically classified into five phases such as: (a) minimal food insecure area, (b) moderately food insecure area, (c) highly food insecure (or crisis) area, (d) severely food insecure (or emergency) area, and (e) humanitarian emergency/famine (or declared famine) area. These categories guide the magnitude of support to be provided, accordingly.

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