National Food and Nutrition Security Strategy 2013-2021 (ENSAN)

Peru's National Food and Nutrition Security Strategy 2013-2021 (ENSAN), approved by Supreme Decree No. 021-2013-MINAGRI and published on December 28, 2013, established the national strategic framework for guiding public interventions aimed at achieving food and nutrition security for the Peruvian population by 2021. It was developed through a participatory process led by the Multisectoral Commission on Food and Nutrition Security, involving public institutions, subnational governments, and organizations connected with food production and access. The strategy adopted five complementary dimensions: availability, to promote a sufficient and timely supply of safe and nutritious food; access, to improve the economic, physical, and social conditions enabling people to obtain food; utilization, to encourage adequate food consumption, nutrition education, food safety, and access to basic services; stability, to reduce the vulnerability of food supply and access to climate-related, economic, and social risks; and institutional arrangements, to strengthen multisectoral and intergovernmental coordination, results-based management, and monitoring of public interventions. It incorporated approaches based on the human right to food, territorial development, risk management, gender, interculturality, the life cycle, sustainability, and social inclusion. Its priorities included linking agricultural and fisheries production with food supply, addressing the needs of vulnerable populations, reducing food insecurity and malnutrition, and strengthening institutional capacities. The strategy was a policy planning and guidance instrument rather than a stand-alone cash transfer or subsidy program. Its implementation was subsequently linked to the National Food and Nutrition Security Plan 2015-2021. Since its planning horizon ended in 2021, it should be classified as completed, without treating that date as evidence of formal repeal of the approving decree.