Food Security and Climate Adaptation
With low investment and income generation, her family’s diet has improved. Providing income opportunities in Colombia PWRDF partner ECLOF Colombia is providing training, technical assistance and new opportunities in rural communities, such as the “Happy Hen” program that enables farmers to provide chickens with space to graze freely and a shed to guarantee their safety. Esthela Palacios is a participant. She lives with her family on a farm that includes a small shop where she sells her corn and milk from her two dairy cows. Through the “Happy Hen” training, she learned how to produce organic fertilizers and implement good poultry practices and biosecurity protocols in COVID-19 prevention. “My hens are very pretty, behave well and are already starting to lay their first eggs,” says. With low investment and income generation, her family’s diet has improved. 10
