In September 2013, Oxfam in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia started a 4-year EC-funded project titled "Improving Regional Food Security through National Strategies and Small Holder Production in the South Caucasus", aiming at the improvement of food security and nutrition in the South Caucasus as a result of governance processes which include the representation from small-holder farmers. The three envisaged results of the project are as follows:
1) National management of the availability, access and nutritional content of food;
2) Legislation to support local food production and consumption and;
3) Representation of women and men small-holder farmers in food security policy and strategy development process.
The Project adopts the FAO classification of food security as its conceptual framework which addresses the four pillars: availability, accessibility, utilization and food stability. The project carried out the Baseline Research from May-September 2014, and identified the need to conduct regional nutritional survey and review of institutional mechanisms, policies and programmes in place in order to strengthen the utilization pillar of food security in the South Caucasus.

Oxfam in Georgia, together with its implementing partner - the Biological Farming Association Elkana, is calling for experienced research companies to carry out national nutritional studies and respective policy analysis in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

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