FOOD & AGR ORG OF THE UNITED NATION

Published purpose

The project works to improve equitable access to gender-sensitive and nutritious food for populations from ten of the poorest villages in the Minya Governorate affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Project activities include: (1) reducing COVID-19 related barriers to carrying out smallholder horticultural production and agro-food processing activities and enhancing food system resilience during the COVID-19 crisis, as well as present environmental and future climate change challenges; (2) providing rural women of different ages and socio-economic groups, as well as their households and communities, with improved access to efficient climate-smart agriculture practices and technologies; and (3) providing technical and financial support for the establishment or strengthening of agri-food enterprises in the horticulture value chain.