Documents/MGDS/1: Agriculture & Food Security/1.2: Food Security

1.2: Food Security

Make Malawi a hunger-free nation.

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Medium Term Expected Outcome: The medium term expected outcome is that food will be available for all Malawians in sufficient quantities and qualities, at affordable prices. Key Strategies -- Main strategies include: * Improving agricultural productivity; * Implementing policies to improve the functioning of maize and other food crop markets; * Implementing policies that do not distort the market and which reduce dependency on food aid; * Putting in place an effective early warning system;. * Promoting income generating activities; * Improving the coordination and management of food aid and imports; and * Improving the ability to import and distribute food through better domestic regional connectivity, and * Construction of steel bin silos in strategic areas to improve medium to long term food storage capacity.

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