Our Initiative

WHY

Our education and empowerment Initiative is in response to the urgent need to finally face the unacceptable global failure in tackling the prevailing food and nutrition insecurity in a systematic, sustainable, resilient and responsible mode.

Surely, much is being done but the question remains: Why such hunger and malnutrition in the world at such magnitude and persistence in this day and age?

Current geopolitical developments have propelled food and nutrition insecurity center-stage as global security challenge. We believe that structural impediments also pose significant obstacles to alleviating world hunger and extreme poverty. The way food systems are articulated, policy options elaborated and adopted be in farming practices, crop selection, stapling, trading and funding training, all contribute to the prevailing and chronic food and nutrition insecurity.

In this context, we believe in the merit and value of focusing on meeting African capacity training needs specifically and concretely. These must be fulfilled in a cross-sectoral and collaborative way and in coherence with environment and socio-economic sustainable priorities.

Reducing nutrition and food insecurity is to be made measurably and in a resolute, resilient and sustainable manner.

WHAT

Tackling the prevailing food and nutrition insecurity is a multifaceted, multidimensional and multi sectoral undertaking. Our Initiative focuses on a long-term, sustainable approach by way of supporting and enhancing capacity development for Food Security in Africa (FSA).

Three programs have been designed in order to enhance and develop such capacity. They are articulated in three structures. These are FSA ACADEMY, FSA DATA and FSA CAPITAL.

HOW

In supporting capacity development, four principles guide our involvement:

  • Community-anchored education and knowledge sharing
  • In-field training based on local realties
  • Human rights-compliant operations and partnerships
  • Transparency and efficiency

WHO

Our team is composed of young graduates of Sweden academia with complementary background, training and qualifications. Our modest undertaking in facing food and nutrition insecurity in Africa is structurally more “brain intensive” than “capital intensive”. Indeed, we aim at fulfilling a catalyst role in promoting common sense, in-field designed capacity development programs.

Our team is led by Andrea Lundh, an agronomist and researcher who is a passioned advocate for fostering food security in low-income countries.

Peter de Jounge, our treseurer, is well-versed in international business development and attentive to global markets and relations. He is a marketing executive at Tetra Pak since 2020, having worked in Spain, Vietnam, England and in Sweden.

Ylva ‘s passion and experience are rooted in farming: Having grown up on a farm, she pursued her training and professional experience close to her natural and childhood environment and priorities.
Ylva, qualified as an agronomist, discovered her penchant for community work quite early. Having been active in associative live during her student years, she continues to devote time and efforts for the cause close to her heart: sustainable food systems and farmers’ rights.

Our Initiative is born in Sweden but conceived for a global reach.

It is no coincidence if the food security initiative is designed and launched in Sweden.
Like many OECD member countries and especially its fellow Scandinavian nations, Sweden holds a generally established, consistent and coherent track record in development work and precisely in agriculture considered indeed as a formidable and efficient tool in alleviating poverty. Sweden also has a strong history of cooperative movements, which have played a vital role in fostering sustainable development and empowering local communities.

Such track record justifies the formidable credit Sweden enjoys among beneficiary nations, UN institution, fellow aid agencies and donor foundations.

This image is reinforced in the Global South by the historic fact that Sweden does not carry the burden or stigma of a former colonial power. This feature helps stakeholders to focus on the goal of fighting hunger while raising awareness on food security’s longer-term objectives with no distractions or diversions.

Our team operates in partnership with other NGO’s, leading Universities and multilaterals institutions.

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