FAGARU Network

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Our action

To create these synergies, a functional network of food security and health stakeholders will be established and their means of action will be strengthened.

To this end, the project will strengthen the capacity of these actors to work in synergy, in particular through training on networking, co-construction practices, and collective intelligence.

In each locality where action is taken, projects that create synergy between network stakeholders will be identified in a participatory manner by network stakeholders with the involvement of communities.

Some examples of possible projects, depending on the region of intervention:

• Developing and disseminating preventive measures among women against the consequences of artisanal gold mining on health and food security.
• Development of backyard poultry and vegetable gardens to strengthen household resilience and improve children’s nutritional balance.
• Community education on good practices in nutrition, healthcare, and hygiene.
• Introduction of appropriate agroecological solutions combining concern for human and environmental health (e.g., ecological market gardening, etc.) in health promotion activities (food diversification, needs at different stages of life and categories at risk of malnutrition, etc.).

Finally, students (from Senegal and Belgium) will be supervised as part of their final year projects to write a thesis on the links between agriculture, nutrition, and health at each of the five project sites.