This project will help train 100 women in hard to reach rural areas to become food and self sufficient by learning organic farming and home gardening at their backyard. This training help them send their children to school and address hunger. Women will establish group agroforestry orchards under our #SeedlingsOnWheels initiative, we will form group farms and tree propagators in the villages and on the group farms and fruit trees' gardens to address food insecurity and deforestation.
Villages in Northern Nigeria were totally cut off from the outside world, they were forced to vulnerable situations such as food insecurity and loss of livelihood due to desertification and loss of-biodiversity, this has caused an increase in multi dimensional poverty in the villages which equally resulted to herders farmers unending conflicts.
Village groups are then offered with materials at cheaper prices to construct tree propagators to improve the current low local supply. The groups will sell propagators to their community to increase revenue. They will also supply propagators to group members, as the trees grown will generate a sustainable income since produce of fruit trees are in high demands locally.
Increased crop production and crop diversity will lead to improved access to nutritious food for each village which invariably reverse menace of desert encroachment and loss of habitat. Women become empowered and learn new skills of food production at their backyard. Reduction in hunger helps improve livelihoods and increase economic security in rural areas. Conflicts and armed banditry will be reduced and women will have money to send their children to schools.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
