Nutrition & Resilience:strengtheningfamily farmers

In recent years, natural and man-made shocks and crises have increased

Crises disrupt livelihoods of farming families’ and trigger malnutrition

Nutrition gives families

better chances to successfully withstand crises

FAO works with farming families to strengthen their nutrition and resilience to shocks, through capacity building, input distributions and social protection

Understanding the causes of malnutrition helps finding solutions in times of crises

Under FAO guidance, emergency

and development actors from different

sectors are working together

to support family farmers’ resilience

FAO supports family farmers’

agricultural activities that can withstand crises

FAO supports the

production of local foods with high nutritional values to support family farmers’ nutrition

FAO provides nutrition educationto help farmers decide

which foods to produce and consume

Extension workers

trained by FAO in nutrition & resilience are supporting farming families on the ground

FAO helps farming families diversify their sources of food & income

to improve resilience and nutrition