Fruits for Families
Project Community
The target community for this project is small and marginal families living in remote villages. There are underprivileged families who face a wider scale lack of access to nutrition and food diversity. Members from low-income tribal and indigenous families in various remote regions of the junction of Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Madhya Pradesh.
These are the families with low income and not able to ever increase food prices, thus not able to access and consume recommended and even bare minimum fruit diversity. Even if fruits are available to them the quantity is not good and quantity is never enough to fulfill the nutritional requirements. Various government schemes either provide supplementary nutrition or for providing micro-nutrition supplementation programs which are not sustainable as they are fully dependent on funding from international donations or continued support.
Contrary to this all such remote regions used to have one or other kinds of fruits which were sufficient to provide desired nutrients, but with time and poor marketability, they are slowly-slowly removed from the list of community list. There are many fruit plants that can be grown with limited external input.
Therefore, EEF has planned to work on these issues of poor access to nutrient needs of the poor community through a long-term sustainable solution for access to fruits.
Objectives and Actions
Improved access to diverse fruits and nutrition for underprivileged resource-poor indigenous families in remote regions.
Improved fruit diversity basket of an indigenous community in rural India.
New generations are able to recognize the traditional fruit richness of different regions in India.
Outcome
Small and marginal indigenous families have homestead gardens with multiple fruit plants, leading to increased participation of fruits in a balanced diet.
Indigenous families have around the year access to seasonal fruits with the lowest possible food milage.
An improved rural ecosystem with enriched food diversity.
Traditional fruit diversities of specific regions are revived.
Quality seedlings and planting materials are available to small & marginal families.
