Atoll Foods Future

Theme 1: Sustained use of affordable water efficient technologies and designs. The AFF project concentrates on climate-smart agricultural solutions to food security. This theme focusses on rolling out a mix of technologies appropriate to each country to support food production and consumption.

Theme 2: Local food economies with consistent input supply chains. This theme addresses supply chain issues for fill materials (for Food cubes and other garden technologies) and seeds needed for climate-smart agricultural solutions to food security.

Theme 3: Improved diet quality. Improved diet quality largely focuses on designing resources and education programs (a key part of the project to date), designed to promote healthy eating with the youth.

Theme 4: Increased consumption of locally grown foods. To improve the self-sufficiency of local food production this theme focuses on improving the supply and distribution of produce, as well as local market systems.

Background:

Atoll countries are faced with a range of climate related issues including sea-level rise, an increase in temperature and more intense weather events. Growing food is difficult due to the poor soil quality of atolls, which lack nutrients needed for healthy crops. Limited amounts of freshwater and saltwater inundation have put strain on traditional food systems. In addition, Atoll countries are also challenged by rapidly growing populations and a lack of access to land. All of these factors impact project will target selected informal coastal communities and those that lack access to land. food security and have resulted in an overreliance on imported food. In Fiji, the Atoll Food Futures.

Atoll Food Futures (AFF) is a three-year multi -country project opera ng in Tuvalu, Kiribati and Fiji. Through AFF Live & Learn hopes to improve food production using various methods, with an emphasis on local knowledge and community-based solutions. Building upon the success of previous projects, AFF promotes traditional farming practices and utilizing new technologies to encourage a robust and diverse strategy to food security. This work also includes training with households, community members, and stakeholders on agricultural skills and nutrition.