Over the years, Food for Peace has learned that improving food production is often not enough to protect poor people from hunger. It is essential to teach them alternative ways of earning income, which can be used to buy food and other essential items for maintaining health. Many Food for Peace programs are developing innovative ways of increasing household earnings.

Food for Peace has succeeded because it integrates different program components, so that they compliment each other, rather than work in isolation from each other. Thus, mother-child health, agricultural improvements, infrastructure, market orientation, water and sanitation, education and training, and strengthening local government work together and contribute to building a better future in the communities where Food for Peace works.

	“Food can be a powerful instrument for all the free world in building a durable peace.” President Dwight D. Eisenhower Nursery Business ◀ This farmer has started his own nursery business using knowledge acquired from participating in Food for Peace activities in Mozambique.
Access to Markets In exchange for receiving a ration of food, these people in Nicaragua are building a road that will help them reach local markets, where they can sell their produce for extra income. ▶

Sunflower Oil ▲ A woman demonstrates how she produces sunflower oil, after receiving training from a Food for Peace activity in Mozambique. She and her fellow group members sell this oil in local markets, thereby increasing their income.   Comparing Markets ▲ A Food for Peace project in Mozambique provides farmers with the most recent commodity prices at nearby markets, enabling them to make better decisions about where and when to sell their produce.

Fish Farming ◀ Fish farming is a way to supplement both diet and income. Here, a woman in Mozambique catches fingerlings to stock a new pond that she and other fish farmers have just constructed.

Cash Crops Farmers in Rwanda have learned to produce profitable chili peppers in addition to their staple crops. By selling to processors through cooperatives, these farmers have substantially increased their household incomes. ▶ Beekeeping ▲ This man in Peru raises bees, selling the honey for extra income. Food for Peace’s beekeeping programs are successful in many countries.

Livestock Recipient A family in Kenya shows off the heifer they received from a Food for Peace program. Milk supplements their diet and can also be sold in markets for additional income. Offspring can also be sold on the market for even more income. ▼

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