The activities of the Tamale FSL include establishing school gardens in 10 public schools, planting fruit trees in 10 urban communities, training 20 Youth Ambassadors who will reach out to youth in youth clubs and the schools introducing new recipes from soya processing and training materials.
Authors: Victor Yakubu, Mohammed Adam & Bintu Bukari
The Tamale Food System Lab (FSL) is partner of the EU-funded Healthy Food Africa Project under its Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Framework Programme with the specific objectives to improve communities nutrition, climate change adaptation and gender equality, improve urban youth’s awareness of the importance of nutrition, food security, gender equality and climate change adaptation and to introduce novel food products in 10 urban and peri-urban communities to provide new livelihoods opportunities for women and improved nutrition and food security.
The activities of the Tamale FSL include establishing school gardens in 10 public schools, planting fruit trees in 10 urban communities, training 20 Youth Ambassadors who will reach out to youth in youth clubs and the schools introducing new recipes from soya processing and training materials. It is against this background that some sub activities such as Baseline data collection and Gender training and Formation and training of School garden clubs among others were carried out during the first 18 months of the project.
