In the municipality of Batallas (Bolivia), 90 women from the communities of Karhuiza, Huayrocondo and Cutusuma are leading a project that brings together food security and women’s empowerment.
By setting up family vegetable gardens with greenhouses, irrigation systems and worm composting beds, the participants are building up the growing and selling of vegetables, improving their families’ nutrition and strengthening their role in the community.
The project, funded by Malaga City Council with the support of the Servicio Integral Agropecuario Boliviano (SIAB), also promotes action to reduce gender inequality and to tackle domestic and sexual violence.
