Youth to Lead in Feeding the Future

Nascent Solutions holistic approach to malnutrition, education, food security and poverty, has been validated by the approach taken by the US government’s newly launched Feed the Future global food security program. Our programs have always emphasized most of the principles spelled out in the government’s program for advancing global food security, which include:

* Comprehensively address the underlying causes of hunger and under-nutrition
* Invest in c-led plans
* Strengthen strategic coordination
* Leverage the benefits of multilateral institutions
* Make sustained and accountable commitments

We have also made youth and women the focal point of our programs because, while we believe firmly in the old adage which says “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime,” we are in total agreement with US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton when she adds to that proverb by saying: “If you teach a woman to fish, she’ll feed her whole village.”

To ensure the future of food security, our programs are engaging youth in the process of food production right from the elementary school level. This will foster in them a love of the land, an abiding knowledge of the food production process and turn food cultivation into a natural habit rather than a hobby. Our multi-pronged approach not only ensures sustainable food security; it is the most viable pathway to gainful employment for rural women and youth, the break to the destructive migration to hopeless lives in the cities, and a tried and tested method for getting out of the smothering embrace of rural poverty.