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Country work linked to national programmes and the national source register. Country pages show only work that a programme record supports.
Food Nexus · Programme portfolioProgramme portfolio, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Food Nexus country applications are the national parts of its work on food and agriculture, each linked to a national programme and the national source register. A country page shows only work that a programme record supports, and the national institutions own the question, the data and the decision.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Plains, deltas and basins, the corridors that carry food to ports, and how far each division sits from one, shown for South Asia as an example geography for this subject.
Crop, livestock and aquaculture production systems.
Availability, affordability and nutrition.
Soil health, land degradation and productivity.
Water and energy demand in production.
Refrigeration, logistics and food safety.
Precision agriculture, biotechnology and technology safeguards.
| Instrument | Usually held by | Evidence it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Strategic grain reserves | Food or agriculture ministry, reserve agency | Stock levels, release rules, price triggers |
| Export and import measures | Trade ministry | Domestic balance, world prices, partner reactions |
| Shock-responsive social protection | Social protection ministry | Targeting data, triggers, financing |
| Agricultural insurance programmes | Agriculture ministry with insurers | Yield or index data, basis risk |
| Nutrition programmes | Health ministry | Dietary and anthropometric surveys |
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Country ownership | The principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. |
| National portfolio | The set of programmes, projects and evidence a country maintains in the Nexus network, each with its owner, status and records. |
| Country systems | A government's own budget, procurement, financial management and reporting systems, used by donors when they deliver through them. |
| Acute food insecurity | Food insecurity severe enough to threaten lives or livelihoods at a given time, classified in five phases by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.