FoodLAND is committed to helping promote sustainable and nutrition-responsive farming systems. FoodLAND assumes that this can be achieved basically by strengthening the capacity development, and specifically by
a) empowering farmers and processors through the implementation of capacity-building processes and concrete opportunities;
b) creating or consolidating cooperation and shared knowledge to overcome the lack of coordination among food operators;
c) addressing the inefficient use of resources;
d) trying to address and build resiliency to the high vulnerability of food systems to climate change;
e) enhancing the integration of supply chains by creating commercial and stakeholders’ networks;
f) improving the responsiveness of the production sector to the market demand.
To implement these elements of capacity development, FoodLAND proposed the adoption of specific innovations and designed a set of training materials aimed at providing local farmers and food processors with operational instructions on the adoption and management of the validated innovations. These technology-centred trainings aim at strengthening the participants’ understanding of novel production and post-harvest techniques, innovative tools and systems (e.g., climate-smart/precision agriculture, hydroponics, and integrated aquaculture), new technologies for primary and secondary processing, and supply chain management. Thus, they aim at fostering knowledge and operational capacity to deploy, manage, and maintain the validated technological innovations.
Below is a curated list of training materials created to strengthen the capacities of farmers, processors, and other stakeholders interested in the adoption of the technological innovations developed. Each resource is directly linked to a specific technological innovation developed and validated during the project. These materials are designed to provide practical guidance and foster knowledge transfer, supporting the adoption and scaling of sustainable food system innovations at the local level for primary production, primary processing and secondary processing.
