FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOOD

This program focuses on strengthening household food supply through improving food availability and on-farm- income for rural widows/People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), poor farmers, orphans and vulnerable population through the application of Bio-intensive Agriculture. Bio-intensive Agriculture is a sustainable form of agriculture that promotes biodiversity and provides biological cycles. JAM trains farmers on the use of locally available bio-resources with minimum use of external inputs. Community Training: This involves training on animal husbandry, agricultural techniques such as organic farming, compost making, double-digging, raised beds, sunken beds, modern planting techniques, seed banking, post-harvest management, pest and disease management, soil conservation to the target groups/ populations in Homa Bay county. JAM ensures that technology promoted and used are economically viable, must be environmentally friendly, culturally acceptable and improve social equity for more sustainable development process. The above techniques are applied in the areas of both crop and animal production. This has seen the great sustainable farming among the vulnerable population in the target communities in the areas of African Leafy vegetables, bananas, cassava, orange flesh sweet potatoes, cereal production among others.