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Cabinet Committee of National Food Security Policy
Malaysia's cabinet committee coordinates strategies and action plans on food security across short, medium and long horizons. An executive committee beneath it coordinates five thematic clusters.
Institutional set-up and structure
Established by Cabinet in 2020 and chaired by the Prime Minister, with the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security as secretariat. It began with eleven members and four clusters; six further members joined in 2022 and a strategic communication cluster was added. The executive committee coordinates clusters covering availability, accessibility, food safety and nutrition, stability and sustainability, and strategic communication.
Mandate and decision-making power
Its mandate is to coordinate strategies and action plans addressing food security in the short, medium and long term, towards a holistic and sustainable national food security policy built on availability, accessibility, food safety and nutrition, and stability and sustainability.
The Committee is tasked with the following roles (building blocks):
Agenda setting: deciding on goals and strategic priorities
Policy formulation and decision making: coordinating policy development; deciding and enacting policies
Implementation: coordinating policy and programme delivery
Who is involved
Government: the Prime Minister's Office; agriculture and food security; finance; rural and regional development; plantation and commodities; investment, trade and industry; economy; and science, technology and innovation
Non-state actors are not members.
Evidence base: policy documents only, 2026. Last updated: September 2026.
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