Supporting efficient food reserves - Critical Points

This Brief is part of the series "How can food reserves best enhance food and nutrition security in developing countries?".

It aims to guide EU delegations to make decisions on the provision of technical and/or financial support to national food reserve programmes. The first step is considering whether food reserves are relevant to improve food and nutrition security, given the specificities of the given country, and is dealt with in the Information Note “Using food reserves to improve food and nutrition security?”.

The second step, addressed here, is checking whether all the building blocks necessary for the efficient use and governance of reserves are or will be in place.