Lesotho Food And Nutrition Policy (LFNP) 2016 - 2025 aims to attain optimal nutritional requirements for the improvement of health status among the population of Lesotho, enabling them to contribute effectively to national socio-economic growth and development.
The Policy's objectives include Nutrition-Specific Programming (Objective 1) Nutrition-Sensitive Programming (Objective 2) and Enabling Environment (Objective 3). Objective I aims at ensuring that women, child and school age children and adolescents are appropriately fed and consume a diet that provides adequate nutrients appropriate for their physiological needs; ensuring prevention and control of diet-related non-communicable diseases and ensure a healthy lifestyle; ensuring that all people in Lesotho have adequate micronutrient status, and that nutrition aspects are strengthened in all TB and HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and care programmes. Objective II aims to achieve reliable production, supply and utilisation of a variety of safe, adequate, affordable and nutritious foods at all times, the Government shall aim to promote climatesmart technologies; to ensure that multiple micronutrients are added to staple and other regularly consumed foods; to enact and implement appropriate legislation and other regulatory frameworks to ensure that safe and high quality food is available at all times; to expand the coverage of social protection programmes, target nutritionally vulnerable groups and strengthen the quality of service provision; to ensure that all children in schools get adequate nutrition; to ensure that all households and other institutions in Lesotho can live in conditions of good environmental health. Objective III promotes nutrition capacity building; nutrition research, improvement of institutional framework, to facilitate coordination and harmonisation of all nutrition-related policies and programmes; monitoring and evaluation of nutrition programmes.