Safeguarding emergency agriculture livelihoods and access to nutritious food of vulnerable food insecure farming families
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| Countries | Afghanistan |
| Start date | 15/06/2021 |
| End date | 14/09/2022 |
| Status | Completed |
| Donor | Denmark |
| Recipient / Target Areas | Afghanistan |
| Budget | 2 686 498 |
| Project Code | OSRO/AFG/112/DEN |
| Objective / Goal | The objective of the project was to provide season-critical support for vulnerable smallholder farming families by assisting wheat cultivation package and nutrition-sensitive vegetable cultivation / home-gardening package. |
| Beneficiaries | 244 679 |
| Activities |
The project planned to improve the food security and nutritional status of 22 000 vulnerable households by providing season-sensitive and time-critical emergency support through the distribution of wheat cultivation packages and nutrition-sensitive home gardening packages. The project aimed to achieve this through two outputs:
Households were supported through the provision of emergency livelihood assistance packages, such as improved wheat seeds, fertilizer, vegetable seeds and home gardening tools. Distributions were complemented by technical trainings on wheat variety cultivation, vegetable cultivation, integrated pest management and climate-resilient crop management. Furthermore, the project delivered awareness raising sessions on COVID-19 to all implementing partner staff and beneficiaries to promote preventive measures.
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Additional information is available here: https://www.fao.org/publications/card/fr/c/CB8480EN/ |