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Spotlight:
Protecting and Improving Food and Nutrition Security
of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Lesotho and Malawi:
- assisted communities with improved
and appropriate agricultural production technologies - Result:
household food availability has greatly increased;
- food diversification strategies
introduced - Result: families have access to a more varied diet;
- bio-intensive method of “key-hole”
gardening introduced in the semi-arid target area - Result: enabled
beneficiaries to produce vegetables all year round in a sustainable
manner;
- prominence given to capacity
building empowered and instilled self reliance in beneficiaries -
Result: various ways identified to enhance livelihoods and improve
food and nutrition security, health, education and social welfare;
- through various interventions,
school enrolment and retention increased, child abused cases
decreased, home based care for people living with HIV greatly
improved and care in community child care centers enhanced.
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Contact:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle
Terme di, Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.
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