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Transforming Food Systems through Nutrition-Sensitive and Climate-Adaptive Social Protection Systems

Somalia’s National Pathway stems from 7 subnational dialogues centered around the identified priorities of: sustained productivity and supported market access favoring small and medium enterprises, impacts of food systems on human displacement, mitigation and risk reduction of climate change impacts, shock-resilient and nutrition-sensitive social protection, youth and women’s engagement, and digitalization of food systems.

The country’s food systems governance directly falls under the Food Systems, Nutrition and Climate Change Council was established under leadership of PM’s office in 2023, including a technical Food Systems Core empowered to better coordinate stakeholders, enhance agricultural labour market regulation, and strengthen evidence-based decision making to better coordinate on the FST agenda. Collaboration includes partnerships with UN agencies (FAO, WFP, UNICEF), international organizations (World Bank, IFAD), and local actors such as academia, private sector, women and youth networks.

• Strenghtening nutrition-sensitive and climate-adaptive social protection programs will improve the rural population’s food security and accelerate Somalia’s food system transformation.
• Developing government capacity to leverage data and multi-stakeholder collaboration to operationalize the pathway for food system transformation.
• Scaling up social protection measures to provide inclusive and equitable coverage for food security, financial access, and climate smart agricultural livelihood.

Co-chaired by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation

• Improved social safety net coverage for rural populations and those whose livelihood are dependent on the local food system through scale up of nutrition-sensitive and climate-adaptive social protection programs
• Operationalized National Food Systems Pathway and Climate Change Council with enhanced institutional capacity in evidence-based governance, management, and multi-stakeholder coordination when developing policies on sustainable and resilient food systems