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Promoting nutrition-sensitive agricultural diversification in Eastern Africa - GCP/SFE/001/MUL

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Africa is the world’s youngest continent, with more than half of the population under25 years of age. Unleashing the capacity of young women and men to effectivelyparticipate in the modernization of the agricultural sector is imperative for enhancedresilience, improved food security and poverty reduction. Rural youth employmenthas been identified as a major national and regional priority in Eastern Africa.Aquaculture and poultry production are agricultural areas with the potential to boostnutritious food production, livelihood diversification and income generation.Sustainable, integrated and innovative practices to enhance youth entrepreneurshipwere needed, as well as supporting mechanisms to enable farmers to producenutrient-dense foods for schoolchildren, the community at large and domestic andregional markets. Against this background, the project aimed to promote greaterdiversity and intensification of the poultry and aquaculture value chains, to improvenutrition and offer better job prospects for young people in four recipient countriesin Eastern Africa: Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. Lessons learned and goodpractices derived from the four baby projects were shared with other countries in thesubregion: Djibouti, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia and United Republic of Tanzania.

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