Peace Corps

Community members will learn and adopt techniques to improve household nutrition and family income generation potential by increasing agricultural production. Volunteers and their work partners will:

• train 1000 community members in integrated agricultural techniques and integrated pest management practices
• train 1000 community members in commercially viable alternative rotational crops
• train 500 small-scale agricultural producers on transformation of plant products
  

Community members will receive training and apply beekeeping, fisheries, and animal husbandry techniques that increase household nutrition and family income generation.  Volunteers and their work partners will:

• train 1000 community members in beekeeping, honey production and marketing, and elaboration of hive byproducts
• train 500 community members in fish farming and marketing
• train 500 community members in large and small animal husbandry techniques
• train 500 small-scale agricultural producers on transformation of animal products (beef jerky, cheese, yogurt, ham, etc.)
  

Small-scale agricultural producers will increase family income through implementing improved agribusiness and marketing practices.  Volunteers and their work partners will:

• train 500 agricultural producers in basic agribusiness and marketing practices
• train 250 community members in basic mathematical procedures used to calculate costs of production, bookkeeping, analyze price cycles, trends, inflation