FOOD SECURITY

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The project will create employment opportunities and raise the purchasing power of rural groups, particularly women, improve feeding and dietary practices through a pilot nutrition education program for high risk groups, increase efficiency in marketing and storage of foodstuffs, and reduce the impact of pest attacks on food production. The project components include: (a) micro-projects to support: (i) commercial cash-generating group investments; (ii) non-commercial social-type investments by community groups which are non-cash generating; and (iii) infrastructure investments such as on-farm and village storage, watering points for livestock, fish ponds, and rural tracks; (b) locust control in the North and Extreme North Provinces; (c) early warning for drought and other causes of food shortfalls, and a market information system over a three-year period; (d) construction and renovation of market infrastructure in rural and urban communes; and (e) formulation of a national nutrition education strategy based on the development and implementation of a pilot nutrition education program for high risk children and women.