Food, Water and Nutrition

CARE aims in provision of farming techniques, marketing and nutritional education to enhance right to food, water and nutrition.

Our Approaches

Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS)

This participatory model enhances women’s equitable participation in agriculture by getting them the resources, support and information they need to invest in their farms, businesses, families, and communities.

Participatory Scenario Planning

This enables stakeholders including women and different vulnerable groups to have better access to seasonal climate forecasts from meteorological services and local.

Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA)

VSLA Has proven to be an effective way to increase women’s control over assets and bring women into the realm of financial inclusion and have been proven to accelerate their economic empowerment.

CARE’S SUPER Principle

Sustainable, Productive, Equitable and Resilient to enhance food and nutritional security.

Gendered Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment (GCVCA).

Women Empowerment framework and social action and analysis tool: agency, relation and structure.

Community Score Card

A governance tool that improves participation, decision making, transparency and accountability.

Around 45% of death among children under 5 years of age are linked to under nutrition. These mostly occur in low and middle income countries like Tanzania. According to the united nations World Food Programme, in 2020 approximately 2.7 million children under the age of five in Tanzania were estimated to be stunted (chronically malnourished), while around 385,000 children in the country suffered from wasting (acute malnutrition).

An estimate of two billion people worldwide do not have regular access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food. Around 25% of global population does not have clean water, and 1.7 billion people do not have adequate sanitation, such as private toilets or latrines.

We as CARE Tanzania aims at providing modern farming techniques, improving access to markets, land and resources, promoting nutritional education and public awareness that will empower rural communities in our country to eradicate this challenge ( wholistic approach consideration – integrating).

Food, Water, and Nutrition Projects

School vegetable gardens at Palangawanu Primary School - Njombe Photo: Edward Charles | CARE Tanzania

01. Shamba Darasa Imara na Ustadi

The project aims to build household resilience to climate shocks, increase household food and nutrition security, increase household income, and promote gender equality.

Shamba Darasa Imara na Ustadi project

02. Scale Up Farmers Field and Business School

The project aims at increasing production, resilient to climate change, nutrition, income, gender equality and access to profitable market through the value chain of soybean and sunflower for women.

Scale Up Farmers Field and Business School project