National Action Plan for Food and Nutrition 2011-2015

Nutritional state of society has shown a trend that is getting better, this is shown by the lower prevalence of malnutrition among children under five or infants with low weight. Cases of malnutrition among children under five as measured by the prevalence of underweight children under five, and malnutrition are used as an indicator of hunger, because it has strong links with the state of food insecurity in society. Another indicator of hunger is an average rate of energy consumption in the population under 70 percent of the nutritional adequacy. These conditions have a significant impact on the achievement of other goals, such as child mortality and access to education.

This action plan aims to become a guide in implementing food and nutrition development for government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, private institutions, society and actors at national, provincial and district / city. Minister of Planning / Head of Bappenas stated there are five pillars of food and nutrition development, including: (1) Improvement of public nutrition (2) the accessibility of food, (3) quality and food safety, (4) clean and healthy lifestyle behaviors (PHBS); and (5) institutional food and nutrition. Furthermore, the provincial government will develop regional action plan for food and nutrition (RAD-PG) with the district and the city this year as a follow-PG preparation of the NPA.

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