Sustainable Agriculture Nepal Project #67114

Nourishing Nepal: Food Security and Income Farming

by Educate the Children

Nourishing Nepal: Food Security and Income Farming

Summary

Educate the Children (ETC) and program partner Save the Earth (STE) will provide a range of practical, sustainable agricultural programs in two wards of Ramdhuni Municipality and three wards of Barahachhetra Municipality, Nepal beginning in summer 2026. Through our various horticultural and livestock programs, we will help women farmers in rural Nepal produce greater quantities of more nutritious food - thus improving food security, nutrition, and household incomes.

$30,000
total goal

$29,847
remaining

5
donors

6
monthly donors

1
year

Challenge

Food insecurity and malnutrition are still common problems in Nepal. As recently as 2022, 52% of the country's children were living in moderate to severe food poverty. Unsurprisingly, impoverished households suffer the most. Before ETC started working in our current project area, 50%+ of households there lived at or below the poverty line and 25%+ could not produce more than half a year's worth of food. Many families had to borrow money to buy food and were mired in poverty and cyclical debt.

Solution

ETC works to alleviate all three interrelated problems - food insecurity, inadequate nutrition, and lack of income-generating opportunities - through our Sustainable Agricultural Development program. We provide a variety of trainings and resources to help women in rural Nepal raise greater quantities of more nutritious food, both for their own families' consumption and to sell for additional household income. The end results are improved food security and nutrition and increased earnings.

Long-Term Impact

The skills and knowledge gained through ETC's sustainable agricultural development work do not expire or wear out - they last indefinitely and can be shared with family, friends, neighbors, and community members. Food security, nutrition, and household incomes all improve, both relatively quickly and for many years to come. It's a real win-win-win situation! We will start working in this new project area (located to the immediate north of where we have been working since 2020) in summer 2026.