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Policy measures for strengthening food and nutrition security in the Pacific Island Countries

Food matters to Pacific Islanders. Throughout the region, family farming and fishing is a way of life, cultural meaning, and a source of enduring food security which has ensured the health and wealth of Pacific Island communities. However urbanization and the transition of the population out of subsistence production have introduced a number of challenges and opportunities for the food sector – and to households, as both consumers and agricultural producers. This toolkit introduces a number of specific policy strategies and tools for responding to these challenges and opportunities: from pricing policies combined with targeted measures to reduce the incentives to consume food items contributing poor nutrition outcomes; to targeted food supply measures to improve access to healthier substitute food items among at risk population groups such as school children; to measures to facilitate increased investment in productivity enhancing technologies; to methods for improving the development and co-ordination of multi-sector interventions among food sector stakeholders.

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Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Author: T. Martyn, S. Rogers.
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Organization: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Year: 2016
ISBN: 978-92-5-109559-1
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Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Report
Full text available at: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6605e.pdf
Content language: English
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