Agriculture and Food Security (AFS)

“Putting a regular examination on availability of sufficient food and financial resources, access to nutritious food, and utilisation including access to water for people to live active and healthy lives”

The Food Security Program aims to promote food security through grassroots food security initiative development, training and promotion of agriculture and livestock, survey/research, advocacy and policy follow-up.

The Food Security Program pursues a holistic approach to significantly improve lives and contribute achievements of results on nutritional health, agricultural and livestock production and livelihoods, income generation (economic development) and food value chains, surveys and research including socio-cultural considerations.​

EPDA’s response

EPDA puts its know-how in addressing food and nutrition insecurities by providing information that can help decision making as well as supporting and promoting sound agriculture and livelihoods efforts at both grassroots and national levels in order to contribute towards improving production of nutritious food by engaging stakeholders at different levels. EPDA also promotes food value chains from farm-to-spoon and ensuring farm-based sustainable production. It also focuses on halting the conversion of wetlands and forests landscapes into agriculture areas, proposing and promoting effective climate change adaptation/mitigation measures as well as climate smart agriculture systems in order to reduce the economic and social impact of land degradation through farming, natural disasters and thereby fostering access in rural areas to basic resources and infrastructure services. Recognizing the important role played by rural women and youth in agriculture and nutrition, activities and indicators are tailored in a gender-sensitive manner to balance production systems at rural and semi urban localities.  The organization seeks to promote in-service and inter-services capacity building in order to ensure equitable transfer of to food production technology, knowledge and productive assets for all.