AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS IS A POTENT FORCE IN REDUCING POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
ANF supports smallholder farmers by providing them with access to credit, quality inputs, and technical assistance, while promoting sustainable agroecological practices aimed at achieving food security, reducing vulnerability, improving incomes and livelihoods of rural families.
FOOD SECURITY PROJECTS
In Nicaragua’s dry corridor food security initiatives involve pig rearing, the use of biodigesters, biointensive gardens, and production of basic grains. El Mogote and La Manzana Project supports 30 families by providing inputs and materials to improve sorghum production and to establish backyard gardening with different vegetables to improve their food security and nutrition.
INCOME GENERATION PROJECTS
Income generation projects involve promoting crops like honey, coffee, cacao and dragon fruit with a reliable and stable market. El Castillo Coffee Project benefits 25 families with the delivery of coffee pulpers, sieves, materials, and tools for a proper postharvest coffee handling, which will improve producers’ incomes by providing access to a higher paying market in exchange of a higher quality coffee.
FROM SEEDS TO SMILES
The From Seeds to Smiles project promotes agricultural development as a way to alleviate poverty among 1,000 smallholder red bean farmers in the northern dry corridor of Nicaragua by increasing their productivity and ensuring a consistent and affordable delivery of beans to ANF’s feeding programs which will provide nutritious meals to 32,00 at-risk children and 8,00 vulnerable adults.
AGRICULTURAL TRAINING CENTER
Smallholder farmers receive intensive training workshops each year led by our agriculture specialists with the objective of transferring low-cost technology to improve the farming conditions in Nicaragua’s rural communities.
