participation of all stakeholders including Public, Private, Civil Society, NonGovernmental Organizations (NGO), Communities, and Academia in collaboration with international community in the management of forest resources. 54. While numerous issues could be considered to address sustainable forest management, implementation of this policy by the Government and its partners will focus on ten priority areas namely:- Community Based Forest Management; Indigenous Forests, Forest Reserves, and Ecosystem Management; Forest Plantations and Estates Management; Forestry Regulation and Quality Control; Forestry Knowledge Acquisition and Management; Capacity Development for Forestry Sector; Biomass Energy Development; Development of Forest Based Industries; Regional and International Cooperation; and Financing Mechanisms. Sustainable Forest Management will ensure continuous provision of forest goods and services, increased forest cover and climate change management. National Agriculture Policy 2016 55. The development ambition for the National Agriculture Policy (NAP) is agricultural transformation. Such a transformation is necessary to enable all Malawian households to better meet their desires for prosperity and economic security, whether by continuing to pursue agriculture-based livelihoods or through engaging in other sectors of the economy. For the moment, food production primarily for the dietary needs of one’s own household dominates the agricultural activities of most Malawians. The NAP seeks to ensure that such production is done as efficiently as possible. 56. However, the longer-term ambition for the NAP is the transformation of the sector into one in which Malawi’s farmers engage in considerably more specialized and more productive agricultural production according to the comparative advantage of each, but within the context of an overall more diversified agricultural sector, involving a much broader range of food and non-food crops and other agricultural products, with increased reliance on markets by both farming and non-farming households to earn incomes and to meet the food needs of their members. A key consideration to realizing this ambition of agricultural transformation is the place of smallholder farming in such a development pathway. That smallholder farming will need to be the principal focus of public 14