Assembly/AU/ 7 (X)I Page 13 land policies, the Commission is collaborating with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UN-ECA), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to develop a Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa that will support national, regional and international efforts to formulate and implement sound land policies that strengthen property rights, facilitate investment and guarantee security of access to land for rural and urban poor as a basis for secure livelihoods and improved food security. (c) The Framework for African Food Security and the Pan-African Nutrition Initiative 29. CAADP Pillar III focuses on the chronically food insecure, and on populations vulnerable to and affected by various crises and emergencies. The pillar draws together the central elements of the CAADP vision to ensure that growing agricultural productivity, well-integrated markets and expanded purchasing power of vulnerable groups combine to eradicate hunger, malnutrition and poverty. To operationalize CAADP Pillar III, the AU and NEPAD in collaboration with the African Center for Food Security of the University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN) and the Comite Permanent Inter Etats de Lutte contre la Secheresse dans le Sahel (CILSS) have developed a Framework for African Food Security (FAFS) to guide and assist stakeholders in Africa to simultaneously meet the objectives of CAADP Pillar III and the broader African agriculture development agenda. The framework addresses three important food security challenges namely, inadequate food supply; widespread and persistent hunger and malnutrition; and inadequate management of food crises. The framework aims to provide principles, recommended actions, coordination, peer review, and tools to guide national and regional policies; and strategies, investments, partner contributions and advocacy efforts to overcome these challenges, leading to increased food supply, reduced hunger and malnutrition, and improved food security risk management. 30. Alongside the FAFS is the Pan-African Nutrition Initiative (PANI) intended to address the multi-sectoral and cross-cutting nature of nutrition. It aims to catalyze a process of investment planning, facilitating capacity building and mobilizing resources to address the burden of malnutrition. Through a “Nutrition Lens – NL” approach, the initiative offers a tool for integrating nutritional perspectives and expertise into the mainstream investment planning process. The PANI has been developed as a key and main reference to provide guidance to the various sector players and to bring to bear effective project and programme design as well as tangible results and impacts. The PANI is expected to find full use at REC and country level as food security and nutrition programme implementers tackle food security and nutrition priorities on the ground. (d) Improving Rural Infrastructure and Trade Related Capacities for Market Access 31. CAADP Pillar II aims to accelerate growth in the agricultural sector by raising the capacities of private entrepreneurs, including commercial and small-holder farmers, to meet the increasingly complex quality and logistic requirements of domestic, regional and international markets, focusing on strategic value chains with the highest potential to generate broad-based income growth and create wealth in