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How might we better connect food production and consumption? Read the challenge brief

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Mission #1 Connecting communities Find out more...

Livelihoods Security enhance mobility and empowerment between Rural and Urban people

Food Consumption is heavily depend on Livelyhood situation. Empowering producers and increase of food production capacity of the farmers support the food consumtion and growth of food business lead strong market linkages results improved livelyhood.
This is important to link the rural producer group with the urban consumers. This wil lead the farmers to develop improve technology, market price and market demand that helps the producers to produce more effectively and earn money. However this income will lead them to meet their livelyhoods needs and support family for proper consumption. Not only these but also farmers get more access to information and access to ensure the food security, health services and technology and price of the comodity that they produce. But it will never happend if there is no balanced realtionship between the supplier and consumer as per their requirement. Most of the case the farmers are exploited by the midlle man and the middle man take the advatages of prices due to more information about the prices of urban market. The food consumtion behavior of urban population is much higher than rural people due to solvency and livelyhoods security. Pregnent women and new mother are the most vulnerable group victim of these food insecurity and livelyhoods. Wide raneg of participation of the farmers in the market enhance them to aware more about maternal health, child health, education and other livelyhoods means. So it is important to develop capacity of the farmers, provide information realted to production, creat access to finance and update on market information and linkages enahce the food production and best realtionship with the urban consumers.
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March 28, 2011, 10:15PM
Inspiring thoughts Mahmud. Capacity building is indeed a significant factor here.
MAHMUD HOSSAIN's reply to Meena Kadri's comment
April 26, 2011, 03:40PM
yes true in reality we have indepth capacity assessment of the community people and also market assessment thsu demand and supply can work together. Also in capacity building we try to bring the private sector thinking about the sustainability
April 11, 2011, 08:31AM
In one of my project experience that we successfully made that is we trained the rural forest dependent and tribal commuity on handicrafts thus they can sell and utilize their income for their livelihoods.
you can see it in the website linked below;
http://www.irgltd.com/Our_Work/Projects/Bangladesh/Highlight-Bangladesh.html
April 11, 2011, 08:28AM
Thanks yes very true, A intense capacity need assessment and as well market assessment should conduct and then develop capcaity according to the market requirement and then linked with private sector.
Thanks for the point.
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