Nutrition from innovation and taste from waste
Featured in this month's Farming Matters magazine, Bioversity International partners LI-BIRD and Princeton intern Jacob Zucker tell us about how homegardens provide nutrition to households in Nepal.
From a situation of widespread undernutrition, consuming fresh vegetables all year round has now become a reality for many Nepali households thanks to their expanding home gardens. But the stories they tell show that the benefits of home gardens are not limited to improving household nutrition. The gardens also help to empower women and conserve biodiversity, two much needed conditions for better family and community nutrition on a broader scale.
Read the full article in Farming Matters by our LI-BIRD partners and Bioversity International intern Jacob Zucker