National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) 2014-2018.

The National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) 2014-2018 is organized in four interrelated programmes: 1) Sustainable natural resources management; 2) Agricultural production and productivity improvement; 3) Market access and services development, and; 4) Food and nutrition security and disaster risk management. Key Support Services (KSS) are dealt with separately and have been split into two broad categories: KSS – Knowledge support systems and KSS – Institutional Development. Crosscutting issues are an integral part of the whole NAIP. NAIP implementation emphasizes private sector (corporate private sector) led agricultural growth with government providing the necessary facilitatory enabling environment. Food and nutrition security focuses on a number of issues including: affordable food prices, steady food availability, knowledge and skills in processing and preservation of diverse foods, stability of sources of income and the general education for male and female parents and guardians. This component of the NAIP focuses on the chronically food insecure as well as populations vulnerable to and affected by various emergencies and crises linked to the Millennium Development Goal targets of extreme poverty and hunger.