| ID: | 86058 |
|---|---|
| Country: | Solomon Islands |
| Title: | Solomon Islands - Pacific Islands Rural and Agriculture Stimulus Facility (PIRAS) - November 2022 |
| Description: |
Margareth Ege is a member of the Tirokoqu Association in Tirokoqu Village on Gizo Island, Western Province. She received seeds, seedlings, labour-saving tools, including a wheel borrow, shade cloth and other inputs from PIRAS that helped her improve her garden plot. Margareth also benefitted from training offered on various aspects of agricultural production, such as food processing, preservation techniques and nutrition awareness, as well as gardening techniques, nursery management, seedling production, composting, soil, pest and disease management. PIRAS targets women and young farmers who were impacted by COVID-19-related lockdowns and trade disruptions. Kastom Garden worked with the community to improve their food security by supporting family nutrition and encouraging self-reliance and sustainable, organic food production. To do so, extension workers have helped the women return to the basics of growing local food crops and to understand how these nutritious foods help combat non-communicable disease. PIRAS is a collaboration between the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Australian Government that supports food system and economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in the Pacific. Working through local implementing partner, Kastom Garden Association, the programme prioritizes strengthening food self-reliance, improving local nutrition and developing sustainable, equitable agricultural livelihood opportunities for 30 island communities in Solomon Islands’ Western, Choiseul and Central provinces. |
| Size: | 18.95 MB; 5472 x 3648 pixels; 463 x 309 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1448 x 965 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Barbara Gravelli |
| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Barbara Gravelli |
| Categories: | New from Asia and the Pacific |
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