Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture

Overview

Introduction

This Intervention Logic (IL) has been elaborated to help clarify the EU's objectives in the area of Food Security, Inclusive Growth, Sustainable Agriculture, Nutrition and Resilience, and translate them into a hierarchy of expected effects/results. The reconstructed IL is based on a faithful interpretation of EU policies on development cooperation in the thematic areas of food and nutrition security and sustainable agriculture (FNS&SA) and on the new EU Consensus for Development.

These goals should be seen as highly interconnected and integrated; combined, they represent the EU's planned contribution to the achievement of SDGs in the field of FNS&SA (primarily SDG 2, but also SDGs 1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16), and the five key themes of Agenda 2030 and of the EU Consensus for Development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.

Overall Objectives

The overal Objectives (OO, also referred to as the impact) of EU action in the filed of FNS & SA are to:

Foster inclusive growth
Contribute to sustainable agriculture
Improve nutritional status
Increase systemic resilience to food crises and climate change

Specific Objectives

The Specific Objectives that will contribute to these broader OO are captured by the following Outcome Statements:

Enhanced rural diversification (including job creation and income diversification)
More inclusive value chains
Increased use of land, infrastructure, services and markets
Increased sustainable production and productivity of agriculture, husbandry and fisheries
More sustainable and inclusive natural resource management
Reduced food loss and waste
Adequate dietary intake
Improved hygiene, childcare add feeding practices
Women empowered to participate in decisions about the use of productive resources and HH income
Increased uptake of basic healthcare and social services
Improved prevention of, and preparedness for, food crises
Improved FSN & SA governance
Increased investment in agriculture
Increased application of learning, innovation and improved technologies in FNS & SA

Outputs

The Outputs that are expected to lead to the above-described outcomes either on their own, or, more likely, in combination, are diverse but can clustered into the following categories:

Rural infrastructure (re)constructed/delivered (transport, energy, water and irrigation, internet connectivity, housing, food storage, etc.)
Increased access to productive inputs/tools/equipment
Strengthened agricultural and rural services available
Marketing services available
Capacities of (*beneficiaries) for (*topic) developed
Increased awareness of e.g. family planning, nutrition, sanitation and hygiene, environmental protection and DDR
Social capital developed
Improved access to nutritious food (e.g. diversified foods, micro nutrient content of food, good safety)
Improved coverage of basic services (health, education, WASH, safety nets)
Disaster and risk reduction plans developed
Improved food stock management systems
Up-to-date information, data and statistics available (markets, nutrition, food security, resilience, production, etc.)
Multi-stakeholder platforms established
Policies, legislation, regulations and action plans, etc. developed
PFM reform plans and strategies developed

For each of the Result areas identified in the IL i.e. impact, outcome and output levels, a series of potentially relevant indicators has been identified. The usefulness of a given indicator will vary from country to country and action to action and will depend on the availability of reliable and credible data sources or sources of verification. The main responsibility for indicator selection lies with the implementing partners, OMs can provide support and guidance in this task.

For each of these results at least one indicator will have to be identified. Note that there is no ideal number of indicators to measure progress towards achievement of a stated result; it will depend on the result and the context.