With a growing gap between food supply and demand driven by a rapid population growth, alongside the constraints faced by scarce natural and water resources, climate change effects and humanitarian crises, the NENA region faces increasing risks to food security and nutrition.  

Food Security and Healthy Diets for all Regional Priority (RP2) works to accelerate the transformation towards sustainable markets, trade and consumption through knowledge, action and investment by focusing on trade, enabling policies, food safety and quality, food loss and waste, and advocacy for nutrition with gender-responsive approaches.  

RP2 programme is aligned with “Better Nutrition”, focusing on food security in all its dimensions, improved nutrition, and the associated elements of trade and food safety, adding a specific focus to address the nutritional needs of a rapidly growing urban population while meeting the specific needs of women and other marginalized groups. The availability of timely, high-quality data serves as a cross-cutting accelerator, enabling evidence-based decision-making and enhancing the impact and coherence of RP2’s diverse interventions.