Myanmar
Myanmar Enhanced Food Security Project (EFSIP)
Duration: 36 months
Start Date: 1 July 2007
End Date: 30 June 2010
Donors: ADRA NZ
Location: Hsi Hsiang, Southern Shan State, Myanmar
08/09 Budget used over 09/10: NZ$84,541
For farmers living in isolated communities of the Southern Shan State of Myanmar the limited options for survival involved the production of poppy plants used in the lucrative Opium trade.
Once opium cultivation was banned, farmers struggled to farm new crops as they had only ever known poppy cultivation. Combining this with poor land quality, farmers and their families regularly experience severe food shortages and malnutrition.
This project provides livestock loans and appropriate knowledge and skills to the beneficiaries and ensures that they are able to manage the livestock reproduction. The households who receive livestock are encouraged to extend their knowledge and skills to their neighbours. Village Development Committees are formed in each village to coordinate the village development, ensuring that there is continued support both during and beyond the project timeframe.
This project is supporting 350 rural households in 12 Villages through sustainable livestock husbandry skills and loan packages, school enrollment and attendance programs and improving community assets by developing water service points and vital infrastructure.
