ABSTRACT
Strategies for addressing the hunger challenge should offer more than a few scattered recommendations. They should set out clear goals. They should describe stepwise plans of action designed to reach those goals. Strategic planning requires an orderly process. Although many guidelines are available with respect to how planning should be done, perhaps the simplest is that it should move from vision to mission to strategy to tactics. One has to begin with a clear and agreed-upon idea about what the planning effort is for. Some people assume planning requires a strong central authority and must be about commands issued from that center. Moreover, planning relating to nutrition often has been treated as a technical issue, comparable to, say, building a bridge across a river. Conventional top-down planning has experts and officials in capital cities make decisions for distant villages. Data about food security and related matters are assembled to give the experts a better understanding of local situations.
