Agriculture and food security
We promote sustainable and inclusive agricultural systems by strengthening skills, market access, and climate resilience through partnerships that tackle hunger and malnutrition while supporting the most vulnerable communities.
AVSI’s agriculture and food security interventions target countries with high levels hunger and poverty.
Through public private partnerships with stakeholders, AVSI has developed/championed climate-smart and gender-mainstreamed approaches that have empowered smallholders and agripreneurs to become key contributors to food systems, socio-economic transformation, and environmental conservation.
Context-specific rural development and strategic investment in agriculture are powerful tools for ending poverty and hunger, and achieving community-led sustainable development.
- We support the empowerment of farming communities, better access and sustainable management of natural resources, technologies and services to increase their productivity and income generation.
- We collect and share information on access to market, innovations and technologies and socio-economic development.
- We strengthen the capacities of all key stakeholders to ably respond to shocks to their agricultural livelihoods and build resilience of their food systems
- We engage in broad partnerships for targeted and cordinated actions towards achieving common goals of eradicating hunger and malnutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture and responsible consumption
- We have a focus on inclusive agriculture-driven economic growth by targeting and empowering women, girls, youth and marginalised communities.
- We know that agriculture has an important role to play in combating climate change; our approach values climate-smart innovations, promotes digitisation and value chain growth to help vulnerable communities adapt and thrive
Documents
Some examples
News
Pubblications
Baseline multisector survey: Insights from agricultural cooperatives (FR)
- Date 16.12.2025
- Countries Burundi
- Sectors & Areas Agriculture and food security
Lessons from the field: insights and best practices from the Isoko Irama project (FR)
- Date 03.12.2025
- Countries Burundi
- Sectors & Areas Agriculture and food security
Multisectoral Survey Report – Demba and Dibaya | Education and Humanitarian Needs (FR)
- Date 26.11.2025
- Countries Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Sectors & Areas Education, Agriculture and food security, Child protection, Energy, Environment, Livelihood, economic strengthening, vocational training and job creation, Nutrition, Human rights, democracy and peace, Health, Water and sanitation, Climate change, Women empowerment, Migration, Emergency
Multisector Survey in Kayanza and Ngozi provinces, Burundi (FR)
- Date 19.09.2025
- Countries Burundi
- Sectors & Areas Education, Agriculture and food security, Energy, Environment, Livelihood, economic strengthening, vocational training and job creation, Nutrition, Health, Water and sanitation, Migration, Climate change, Women empowerment