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Project ID: | 00071663 | Description: | MDTF MWI CL1 FAO FOOD SECURIT |
Fund: | Start Date *: | 16 Jul 2009 | |
Theme: | Sustainable Economic Dev. |
End Date*: | 31 Dec 2013 |
Country: | Malawi | Project Status: | Financially Closed |
Participating Organization: | FAO - Food and Agriculture Organizat |
About
Project Title: One Family One Fruit Tree Malawi has high prevalence of malnutrition due to micronutrient deficiency, especially among under-5 children and those under 10 years of age. Little has unchanged despite various initiatives that government has undertaken over the past years. The other critical major micronutrient deficiency is nutritional anaemia with prevalence rate of 80 percent in preschool children, 47% among pregnant women and 58% in school- age children.
Factors associated with the high levels of malnutrition are multiple and interrelated including, inadequate quality and diversity in the diet; limited access to food; institutional and capacity constraints for effective nutrition programmes and service delivery; and inadequate knowledge and skills for adoption of optimal nutrition practises at household level, mainly due to a lack of resources for community based nutrition education programmes.
Under Theme 1 of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF): Sustainable economic development and food security, and subscribing to increased agricultural productivity at household level and enhanced conservation of natural resource base, Cluster1 proposes to implement a project that will promote diet diversification, through fruit production and utilisation at household to improve nutritional health of household members. The project will demonstrate approaches that can reduce the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies and associated diseases in communities through application of basic food security interventions.
Objectives of the project are to:
Implementation Strategy The proposed project will cover 20,000 households, in Machinga ADD covering Balaka, Machinga and Mangochi districts and 25, 000 in Kasungu ADD covering Kasungu and Mzimba districts. Each household will be provided with one fruit tree of their choice to plant near a water drainage site on the homestead, to encourage inclusion of fruit in the diet to reduce micronutrient deficiency which affects child development and health. The project will work with community leaders through existing agricultural extension structures. Extension staff will work in partnership with the nutrition subject matter specialists within the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security to sensitise, and initiate the “one household one fruit tree” campaign in the selected EPAs. After distribution and planting, the extension staff will monitor the management of the trees by the households, by following up and encouraging households to take good care of the seedlings up to bearing stage. The project will have an understanding with the beneficiary that the beneficiary would pay back to the project the full cost of the fruit tree seedling if it dies due to negligence.
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