To enhance food security and nutrition, the Cambodian government implemented robust nutrition policies under the National Strategy for Food Security and Nutrition (NSFSN) 2014-2018 and the Second National Strategy for Food Security and Nutrition 2019-2023. [...] The nutrition strategy aims to strengthen the food environment (i.e., the places and ways in which food is sold to and accessed by people) and consumer behaviours to enable healthier food choices and promote diversified, nutritious, and sustainable food production. [...] This is due to the increasing frequency and severity of climate-related natural hazards, including drought, flooding and tropical storms, combined with the population’s weak adaptive capacity and lack of mechanisms providing farmers with ‘climate-smart’ adaptation options, which has significant implications for food production and agricultural productivity, and therefore the health and nutrition s. [...] Findings This section presents the contexts of respondents living in the study sites and key findings about awareness of and access to nutrition information, spending on food, food production, managing food during lean times and production impacts, and formal and informal barriers to food production and nutrition consumption. [...] In some cases, village and commune chiefs and councillors were proactive about mobilising people to attend information-sharing and training sessions on nutrition and in collaborating with schools, hospitals, NGOs and other institutional actors to facilitate the dissemination of this information: An NGO came to work in the village which focuses on raising awareness and providing training on food an.
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Table of Contents
- CDRI Working Paper Series No. 148 3
- Ang Raksmey Ananya Cumming-Bruce Chhaing Marong 3
- Bunnath Zoe Sidana So Lyhong and Ngin Chanrith 3
- CDRI - Cambodia Development Resource Institute 3
- Phnom Penh September 2024 3
- Editorial Committee 4
- 2024 Cambodia Development Resource Institute CDRI 4
- Disclaimers 4
- Citation 4
- CDRI 4
- Table of Contents 5
- 1. Introduction 5
- 2. Literature review 5
- 3. Methodology 5
- 4. Findings 5
- 5. Discussion 5
- 6. Conclusion 5
- 7. Recommendations 5
- 8. Limitations and areas for further research 5
- Appendix 5
- References 5
- CDRI Working paper series 5
- List of figures and tables 6
- Acknowledgements 7
- List of abbreviations 8
- Executive summary 9
- 1. Introduction 11
- 2. Literature review 13
- 2.1. Understanding food security and nutrition 13
- 2.2. Socio economic factors affecting food security and nutrition 14
- 2.3. Food security and nutrition and gender equality 15
- 2.4. Food security and nutrition climate change and resource governance 17
- 3. Methodology 20
- 3.1. Study areas 20
- 3.2. Data collection 21
- 3.3. Data analysis 22
- 4. Findings 23
- 4.1. Contexts 23
- 4.2. Awareness and access to nutrition information 23
- 4.3. Spending and food 27
- 4.4. Food production 28
- 4.5. Managing food during lean times and production impacts 31
- 5. Discussion 34
- 6. Conclusion 37
- 7. Recommendations 38
- Community Engagement 38
- Social Assistance 38
- Nutrition Education and Gender Equality 38
- Climate change adaptation and disaster risk management 39
- 8. Limitations and areas for further research 39
- Appendix 40
- References 41
- CDRI Working paper series 49
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