Our Food Security Program

Food security is at the heart of rural poverty. Some of the main constraints for Lao are: an extremely limited access to markets, low productivity, the cause and effect relationship between poor nutrition and low food security, weak rural agricultural services, low crop yields and no market diversification. Within this context, ADRA's aim is to help Lao PDR work towards the Millennium Development Goal 1 (End Poverty and Hunger). Our program enables this by partnering with communities and the government in rural areas with an integrated approach that focuses on sustainable improvements to livelihoods, land management, access to markets, increased and improved productivity, and improved nutrition.

Our Food Security Project

MokMai Intergrated Program
Based on ADRA Lao’s experience and the participatory assessment, it was determined that year 3 of MKWASH would be used as an opportunity to move into working with some of the poorest villages and households in Xiengkhuang Province, in the areas of health, education and food security. Our Mok Mai Integrated Programme is committed...Readthewhole story

WATER PLANT (recently completed)
In the mountainous region of the northern part of Laos, traditional shifting cultivation agriculture is undergoing drastic transitions. New government policies stopping traditional cultivation and the rapid expansion of commercial agriculture with its mass deforestation is terminating traditional cultivation agriculture. Up until now, villagers in the...Read the whole story

PLANT (recently completed)
Our PLANT project, Participatory development of Livelihoods through advanced Agricultural and Non-timber forest management Techniques, operates in Long District of Luangnamtha Province. An intergrated approach that focuses on securing peoples livelihoods and food security through agricultural...Read the whole story

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"Agriculture is where climate change, food security and poverty reduction intersect." said Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).