دورية أكاديمية
Policy and Strategic Responses to Food and Nutrition Security in Ethiopia.
| العنوان: | Policy and Strategic Responses to Food and Nutrition Security in Ethiopia. |
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| المؤلفون: | Brhanu GA; College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Amhara, Ethiopia., Ayele ZB; College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Amhara, Ethiopia., Gebreselassie SG; School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| المصدر: | Food and nutrition bulletin [Food Nutr Bull] 2023 Dec; Vol. 44 (4), pp. 240-248. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 26. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: Sage Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7906418 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1564-8265 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 03795721 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Food Nutr Bull Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: June 2015- : Los Angeles, CA : Sage Original Publication: Tokyo, United Nations Univ. |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Nutritional Status* , Food*, Humans ; Ethiopia ; Nutrition Policy ; Government |
| مستخلص: | Background: Food and nutrition insecurity continues to be one of the persistent challenges in Ethiopia. The country has been responding to the challenges in various ways to foster sustainable development. Objectives: The objective of the study is to assess national food and nutrition security policy and strategic responses. Method: A qualitative review of policies, strategies, programs, guidelines, and a government commitment, document was conducted. Interviews with experts from food and nutrition-implementing governmental and nongovernmental organizations were also employed. Thematic analysis with description was used. Results: The results of the study revealed that global initiatives stimulated Ethiopia to progressively take various strategic directions to address the ongoing food and nutrition challenges. In addition to various policy directions, the country has been implementing nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs under the multisectoral approach. The concepts and practices of food and nutrition security shifted from simply balancing the demand and supply of food to a broader and more inclusive food system approach with the involvement of multiple actors. However, more has been said than done. The policy, strategic objectives, and initiatives have not been adequately translated into practices. Actions toward ensuring food and nutrition security, on the other hand, are constrained by institutional, environmental, technological, and emerging priorities like an outbreak of a pandemic and political instability. Conclusion: The study concluded that available policy and strategic intents have sufficiently addressed food and nutrition challenges in documents and need to be fully translated into practices. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| فهرسة مساهمة: | Keywords: food; nutrition; policy; response; security Local Abstract: [plain-language-summary] Plain language titleEthiopia’s Policy and Strategies to Ensure Food and Nutrition SecurityPlain language summaryEthiopia is facing food and nutrition insecurity problems that require multidimensional action. We studied how the country is responding to the challenges through national food and nutrition security policies and strategies. We found that global initiatives stimulated Ethiopia to progressively take various strategic directions to address the ongoing food and nutrition insecurity problems. The country has devised nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programs under the multisectoral approach, which incorporates policy, strategies, program, guidelines, and a political commitment document. The concepts and practices of food and nutrition security have evolved from balancing the demand and supply of food to a broader and more inclusive food system approach with the involvement of multiple actors. However, the country did not fully translate the policy response into the ground. Interventions to ensure food and nutrition security are challenged by institutional, environmental, technological, other priority agenda, and political instability. Based on the study, we conclude that the country has a fertile policy environment that needs to be translated into practices uniformly across all regions. |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20231026 Date Completed: 20231216 Latest Revision: 20240212 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20240213 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/03795721231202559 |
| PMID: | 37880952 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 1564-8265 |
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| DOI: | 10.1177/03795721231202559 |