This Strategy is aimed at strengthening food systems in developing countries. The vision is to promote, within sustainable frameworks, local production of nutritious food that is processed and sold locally and regionally, thus increasing the incomes of small-scale food producers, stimulating local job creation throughout the value chain, and expanding access to healthy food.
There is an emphasis on increasing local climate-resilient food production, increasing local value creation and income for food producers, reducing malnutrition and malnourishment and reducing the extent of hunger crises, as outlined in the implementation section of the Strategy. The Strategy is guided by the role of women, persons with disabilities, and youth and young adults. The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) actively works on value chain developments through its partners, especially in southern Africa, where bottlenecks have been identified in value chains and targeted initiatives are being implemented. Examples of such bottlenecks may include a lack of storage facilities, credit, local refinement possibilities or market access. Norad collaborates with the private sector to solve these challenges.
