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Food Security

Having regular access to enough safe and nutritious food is critical for normal growth and development. This need is exponentially heightened when living with a complicating disease, raising children, or carrying or nursing a baby. Over a quarter of the world’s population are severely or moderately food insecure and, ironically, most are small scale farmers.

Ensuring that farmers have adequate household food security regardless of their income, access to markets, or state of their farmland is central to our program. DIG regularly adapts our model to best support our farmers, in whatever unique context they find themselves in.

DIG’s program begins and ends with seeds. Seeds are the foundation for food security and we not only put actual seeds in our farmers’ hands, but by the end of our program, the farmers themselves become seeds for continued growth and expansion.

Farmers take their enhanced knowledge to their broader community. Our model ripples outward on onward, without any additional cost or intervention.

DIG’S intentional design embeds a path to dignity and increased social status for our uniquely vulnerable communities, and ensures scale.

86%

the average reduction of household food expenditures DIG trained farmers get from their gardens.

11

The average number of meals DIG trained farmers source from their gardens weekly.

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Stories From the Field: Food Security
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With your support we can grow our capacity to equip uniquely vulnerable families with the skills and experience to meet their own needs and improve their well-being through gardening.

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