Program — Food Security
Food Security
We invest in the soil beneath the meal: smallholder agriculture, seed resilience, cold storage, and the market links that let a good harvest become a stable livelihood. We aim to end the season of hunger, not merely the day of it.
Approach
Resilient seed and soil
Drought-tolerant varieties, soil health, and farming knowledge that hold up against a less forgiving climate.
From harvest to livelihood
Cold storage, processing, and market links so that a good season becomes income rather than spoilage.
The lean months
We plan for the gap between harvests — storage and savings that carry a family through the season hunger usually arrives in.
In the field
A harvest that holds
Drought-tolerant seed and a shared cold store turned a precarious cooperative into a reliable supplier — and turned good years into savings that buffer the bad ones.
Closing the gap
Aggregation and storage shortened the distance between field and market, so a season's surplus reaches a buyer before it spoils.
Numbers
- 640,000
- smallholder farmers supported
- +38%
- average yield, partnered cooperatives
- 120
- cold-storage and market hubs