A project beneficiary family poses for the camera showing their chickens caged infront.
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Authors
Rezaul Haque
Issue Date
30/01/2015
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en
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Food , Agriculture
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Food and Nutritional Security for the Resource Poor Farmers in Jamalpur and Faridpur Districts (FoSHoL) IA12100304BAN
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The project is working to increase the food and nutritional security of resource poor farmers through diversifying smallholder farming systems and livelihood opportunities. In Bangladesh, thousands of families live each day in poverty and are unable to meet their basic food needs. Despite some average increase in cereal crop production, the level of household food security and nutrition of the resource poor farming community is inadequate. The project has been enabling resource poor farm families to improve their food, nutrition and livelihood security through transferring appropriate farming technologies and knowledge, establishing rural extension services, agro-processing, increasing access to services, resource and markets, raising awareness on domestic nutrition management. FoSHoL operates in Jamalpur and Faridpur Districts. The project is implemented with the financial support from the European Commission (EC). Since its inception in May 2005, the four-year project has been supporting 7,500 small and marginal farm households by taking a skill-sharing approach complemented by consensus building to enable the target, women and men, to become socially and technically resourceful and attain year round food security. The FoSHoL-Practical Action project is being implemented in 79 villages of 16 upazilas (sub-district) of five districts where farming families lacked on farm production, processing and marketing skills, opportunity and knowledge to be self-reliant.
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