Enhancing Agricultural Production and Improving Access to Food in Mozambique - GCP/MOZ/111/EC
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The outcome of the project was to enhance agricultural production, improve access to food and improve dietary intake and feeding practices. Three specific objectives were defined, corresponding to the three pillars of food security and nutrition, namely ( i ) enhancing agricultural and fisheries production (food availability), (ii) increasing access to food and (iii) improving nutrition. In order to achieve the above results, 16 result components were defined and implemented. The result components overseen by FAO (those regarding seeds, e vouchers, vaccination, post harvest and nutrition) were mainly built around the component of Farmer Field Schools, as the main approach to introducing new knowledge and technologies at household level. This contributed to harmonizing the targeting of beneficiaries, intervention implementation and monitoring and evaluation of expected results. A different approach was used under the result component focusing on nutrition education and home gardens, whereby nutrition education of schoolchildren was implemented through primary schools. Specifically, the technical assistance provided by the project was focused in the following thematic areas: ( i ) enhancing agricultural and poultry production through improved access to inputs and advisory services, improved access to poultry vaccination promotion of home gardens for women and reducing post harvest losses, (ii) increasing access to adequate appropriate food through improved infrastructure and linkages with buyers, investing in social capital building through support to farmers ´ organizations and market information systems and (iii) direct interventions to improve nutrition by diversifying food production and support for food fortification to improve access to essential nutrients and provide nutrition education for adults and children.