Reduce Food and Nutrition Insecurity in West Africa

The Program to support Food and Nutrition Security in West Africa (PASANAO) aims at improving the capacities of ECOWAS and its member States to ensure food and nutrition security for the West African population.It has three specific objectives:to improve information systems on food security at the regional level, to better apprehend issues related to markets, household incomes and nutrition,to back the design and the implementation of public intervention instruments for ECOWAS and member States, to limit food insecurity and respond to crises,put into force innovative operations to enhance the food and nutritional situation of the most vulnerable groups.PASANAO is the first program to be set up^by the Regional Agency for Agriculture and Food (RAAF), based in Lomé. It directly benefits to building the Agency’s operational guidelines and procedures.