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 Promoting agricultural cooperatives, unions and associations among small farmers
for enhancing input quality, marketing performance and market access.
 Developing and promoting online platforms and e-trade applications in the Member
countries to improve market access of producers and to enhance competitive power.
6. Promotion of intra-OIC agricultural trade/ Reducing barriers to trade
 Promoting intra-OIC agricultural trade through tariff reductions, Non-traiff
measures(NTMs) and bilateral arrangements/partnerships among the Member
Countries across different product segments of food and agriculture
 Strengthening and implementing multilateral trade arrangements (e.g. TPS-OIC -
Trade Preferential System among the Member States of the OIC)) with a view to
strengthening the OIC-wide food systems and reducing the risk of food crises
particularly for the vulnerable member countries, taken into consideration the
existing smaller/regional preferential trade arrangements.
7. Human and institutional capacity
 Improving the institutional and human capacity of farmers, farmer organizations,
relevant government agencies and other possible stakeholders through introducing
innovative management and organizational systems.
 Developing strategies for the long-term skill development in agriculture sector
through proper education systems and training centers.
 Enhancing the capacity of the Member Countries in collection, management and
dissemination of food security data with a view to designing sound and evidence-
based food security policies.
 Strengthening IOFS to conduct research and development activities in food sector
across the OIC and raise awareness of opportunities and challenges in the OIC
regarding food security
8. Monitoring and evaluation of food security
 Encouraging Member Countries to take steps towards establishing an integrated
comprehensive online database for agricultural statistics.
 Fostering better understanding of the specific gaps and the required actions in a given
country’s food system through encouraging member countries that have been most at
risk to conduct in-depth studies at the country/regional level.
 Supplementing internationally agreed food security indices with detailed monitoring
and rating of the Member Countries
 Developing consistent and comparable KPIs for monitoring food system stability to
develop early warning systems at the OIC level
9. Adaptation and mitigation strategies for reducing the adverse effects of climate
change, man-made disasters,etc.
 Developing emergency assistance mechanisms at the national level to mitigate the
adverse effects of food crises and natural disasters and strengthen intra-OIC
cooperation to that end.