Food And Nutritional Security

Families have many challenges pertaining food security as many families sometimes goes without food due to various reasons that include poverty. The cost of food has increased whereas most households can not afford nutritional food. 8 out of 10 families within Rusinga Island cannot afford nutritional food. Access to traditional vegetables and anti acid kales is proving to be a challenge today.
MBCC therefore builds the capacity of communities to help establish smallholders communities that are actively involved in conservation agriculture and climate friendly farming to help improve on food security, nutritional security and sustainable food systems within rural family set-up and in smaller urban centre. The target is to use the available space well for valuable production of food for subsistence purposes.
Through smallholders communities MBCC will train the community members and equip them with the necessary skills and take them through an intensive practical processes before supporting the smallholders farmers to initiate the projects at their homes. The approach will be based on the MBCC SCALII Model and will ensure the use of family labour to work on the kitchen gardens for those in the villages and urban farming for those in smaller urban set-up and fishing beaches along lake Victoria.
The smallholders communities are trained to pool their food products together especially the cereals to help in the events of food shortages. This will help to enhance a 365 days available of food for the majority of the families.

Aim of this program:
To improve on the nutritional security within the families in the rural set-up along the fishing beaches of lake victoria.
To provide adequate food for families for subsistence purpose ensuring no child goes hungry or misses a meal
To contribute to the global food security and sustainable food systems by addressing the productivity and financial sustainability of smallholders as an international priority measured by indicator 2.3 of Sustainable Development Goal number 2