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To address the four facets of food security, you have to develop women led interventions because women are the chief custodians of all most everything in the food chain, from the creation of seed banks, tilling the land, selection of best indigenous cultivars of crops to the design of pre and post harvesting technologies.
There is this conduit between the youth that addresses food security in that most of the women farmers prefer mostly working whether their mothers, any program with a women and youth project element will always succeed because women and youth are always early adopters of proven methodologies of farming once its successful its replicable to a larger audience. Almost 75% of work done in the farming circles is always performed by women.
The success of most livelihood programs should hinge on women farmers.
Themba Phiri