Family livestock farming & food and nutrition security

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In Africa, improving the potential of family livestock farming allows livestock keepers to feed their families and improve their well-being.

Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Belgium carries out its mission through the 4 multidimensional concepts that are poverty, household resources, livestock functions and food and nutritional security. This way, we can reverse the vicious cycle of poverty and turn it into a virtuous circle of sustainable human development.

Indeed, thanks to the strengthening of their capacities, livestock keepers’ families optimize the various functions of their herd, which enables them to improve their food and nutritional security.

Through concrete examples, discover in this infographics the links between the improvement of family livestock farming’s potential and the improvement of household food and nutrition security in Africa.

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