TA-6584 MON: Managing the Risks of Food Security in Mongolia during the Covid-19 Crisis
TA-10099: STRENGTHENING FOOD SECURITY POST-COVID-19 AND GLOBAL FOOD AND FERTILIZER PRICE CRISES-FIRM 1 FOR INTEGRATED FOOD SECURITY INFORMATION AND RESPONSIVE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT
- The knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) will strengthen post-coronavirus disease (Covid-19) food security and global food and fertilizer price crises in Mongolia. The TA will enhance Mongolia’s institutional capacity to respond to food insecurity risks by developing an integrated food security information and response system, and support institutional reforms to develop modern and resilient food supply chains. In addition, the TA will prepare an investment strategy to strengthen food supply chain logistics.
- Ensuring a resilient recovery from COVID-19 is a priority agenda for both the Government of Mongolia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The TA will support the implementation of the National Movement on Food Security and Food Safety launched in 2022. Support to food security is aligned with strategic priority 3 on sustainable agribusiness under the country partnership strategy for Mongolia, 2021-2024, support its recovery from COVID-19. The TA us aligned with ADB’s Strategy 2030 and its operational priority of accelerating the progress in increasing agricultural productivity and food security. The TA also supports ADB’s plan to provide at least $14 billion from 2022 to 2025 to a comprehensive support program to ease the worsening food crisis in Asia and the Pacific and improve long-term food security.
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MonConsult is aligned with the following impact: Mongolia’s food security and food safety enhanced. It will strengthen food security following COVID-19 and the global food and fertilizer price crises in Mongolia. The TA will have the following outcome: resilience strategy and management of food insecurity risks improved. It will have three outputs:
- Integrated food security information and response system established,
- Institutional capacity to develop modern and resilient food supply chains strengthened, and
- A draft comprehensive investment strategy to strengthen food supply chain logistics prepared.
