Project summary
The project improves food security and farming development in two Afro-Bolivian communities of Coroico – Tocaña and Muruata – to tackle maternal and child malnutrition and hunger, both made markedly worse by Covid-19. It works with people in the Bolivian Yungas, among the most vulnerable in the country, offering them a way to improve their living conditions by drawing on their own natural resources.
Areas of work
- Setting up family vegetable gardens and smallholdings to grow vegetables and raise chickens.
- Strengthening the role of Afro-Bolivian women and their participation in the community.
- Training and technological innovation aimed at the independence of rural women.
- Community participation for sustainable, equitable development.
Results
- 60 Afro-Bolivian women running family vegetable gardens and smallholdings.
- Greater consumption of vegetables, eggs and meat in the families taking part.
- Progress on gender equality within the local farming sector.
