The overall goal of this program is increasing food security through stimulating sustainable production and the creation of an enabling environment for agribusiness development, including skills development for women and youth and improved land governance.
The program activities will result to Greater income security as well as increased access to healthy foods within the population, hence rural incomes and livelihoods increased; and Household food and nutrition security improvement.
Foundation for Children and Women in Development Initiative strongly believes that agriculture can be used as a strategy for alleviating poverty and hunger in rural areas of Uganda. In Uganda, agriculture is the principal driving force of the rural economy.
Hunger and poverty reduction require that the incomes of poor people and the sources from which they derive their livelihoods be enhanced and agriculture is one of the sources poor people can look at.