Food & Nutrition Security

Food and nutrition security is when all individuals have reliable access to sufficient quantities of affordable, nutritious food to lead a healthy life. Food and nutrition security has four dimensions that encompass both chronic and transitory (acute) situations:

Availability:
Sufficient food must be produced on a consistent basis and then delivered/imported.
Access:
Food may be produced and available for consumption, but it does no good if it can't reach the people who need it. There must be sufficient resources to obtain appropriate foods for a nutritious and culturally suitable diet.
Utilization:
Food must be prepared and consumed appropriately based on knowledge of basic nutrition and handling, as well as the availability of adequate water and sanitation to prevent foodborne disease.
Stability:
Availability, access, and utilization of food.

At NiViM, we aim to achieve this through the promotion of sustainable agricultural practices amongst tribal and forest dwellers community. We conduct the following activities :

Promotion of fruit-bearing and nutritional values plants in rural and urban areas during birth day and traditional celebrations in schools & society.
Training for traditional tribal and villagers to evolving scientific, eco-friendly and hygienic methods of harvesting.
Awareness & training for Non-timber Forest Produce (NTFP) collectors to the eco-friendly collection, processing, storage and marketing techniques particularly on Mahua, Honey & Gum for JF MC,VDC committees, farmers club (FC) and SHG members in the vicinity of forest and tribal.
Awareness and action campaign for farmers and local staff of line departments about organic manure, organic farming for crops and vegetables.
Discussion with focus group (Pregnant mother), adolescent girls, parents, mother in-law to aware them about daily nutritional requirement for their child to prevent malnutrition.
Evaluation of available resources for food at community level to fulfill their self employment and allied business based on forest and agriculture.