Rural household welfare in Papua New Guinea: Food security and nutrition challenges

Emily Schmidt, Peixun Fang and Kristi Mahrt

No 3, Papua New Guinea food policy strengthening working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Papua New Guinea continues to encourage a policy focus on food and nutrition security. The PNG National Nutrition Policy (2016-2026) and Nutrition Strategic Action Plan (2018-2022) (NSAP) set a path to improve coordination, secure sufficient funding, and improve technical capacity of nutrition-focused pro gram implementation. As policy prioritizes improved nutrition outcomes, it is important to understand the cost that households face of securing a higher level of nutrition. Ensuring a healthy diet that meets nutrition standards is relatively expensive in PNG. The analysis presented in this paper, which uses detailed household food and non-food consumption data suggests that 4/5 of households in the survey sample live below the healthy diet poverty line (which sets a calorie threshold and defines healthy diet nutrition targets). That is, these households do not have the income available (or do not consume sufficient food and non-food goods) to meet their basic needs which includes securing a nutritious diet that meets food based die tary guidelines.

Keywords: income; funding; policies; surveys; households; capacity development; food; agriculture; nutrition; market access; government; food security; weather; consumers; poverty; diet; social safety nets; Papua New Guinea; Oceania; Melanesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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