Food Security & Livelihoods

Food Security & Livelihoods

LEAD food security programs target the specific needs of individuals and households through tailored interventions that promote resilience and graduate households into long term food security. Program interventions promote the following:

Sustainable and intensified agriculture practices to overcome environmental and climate challenges and insufficiency of skills while increasing agricultural outputs is key. Agricultural productivity is improved in part by facilitating increased access to land, water management, selection of the most strategic crops for farmers and linkages to technical information and support services.

Programs also encourage farmers to enter into higher-value crop production and non-farm income-generating activities, such as small-scale processing and trading, which further supports household diversification and livelihood strategies.

LEAD programming facilitates access to markets and services, often by making use of a gendered value chain analysis and approaches through the identification of the most critical structural barriers that limit the productivity of poor farmers, LEAD programs puts priority on understanding the implications and impacts gender has on attaining food security and ensuring that all activities advance gender equality and avoid (even inadvertently) over-burdening women. Programs systematically analyze gender dynamics within the household, ensuring the interventions promote gender equality at all levels.

Our approach promotes appropriate changes in behavior at the community level that includes building a support system for individuals and households to achieve optimal household health and nutrition, focused on vulnerable populations including women, children and people living with HIV and AIDS in resource poor environments.

 

Our approach promotes appropriate changes in behavior at the community level that includes building a support system for individuals and households to achieve optimal household health and nutrition, focused on vulnerable populations including women, children and people living with HIV/AIDS in resource poor environments.