How We Work Towards Food Security

 

 

 

ADRA's food security programs breathe life into frail and struggling communities. Emergency food aid meets short-term needs of refugees, internally displaced persons, and disaster survivors. Long-term solutions-such as teaching skills to increase food production, marketing techniques, land rehabilitation, and education on how to meet the nutritional needs of adults and children-provide food for life.

 

Millions of people don't know where their next meal will come from due to food shortages. ADRA's Food Security programs focus on long-term solutions to end hunger permanently. This may include training farmers in new techniques or providing resources such as seeds and tools to increase crop production. ADRA also provides food aid (such as rice, maize, beans, or nutritional biscuits) in emergencies such as drought, famine, natural disasters or war.

 

Food Security As a Key Component of ADRA Ghana’s Core Portfolio

Food security is the single most important challenge to every human society, and it lies at the heart of ADRA’s human development efforts.

 

ADRA Ghana strives to reduce starvation and hunger by addressing immediate food needs of the target population as well as working on long-term solutions to food security. ADRA does this by first assessing the food needs of the target population and the various factors that contribute to food insecurity. This process includes an analysis of the availability of national food resources to the population, access of food to the target population, and utilization. It then develops an integrated program to solve the problem and to prevent it from rising again. This approach combines agricultural programs with health, nutrition and sanitation interventions