Plant-based - Local - Sustainable
F O O D
Mission:
Economically empower women and youth with technology and training to support sustainable small-scale production of affordable, nutrient-dense, plant-based food in communities with high rates of malnutrition and poverty.
Malnutrition Matters' Goals
Empowerment of Women & Smallholder Farmers
Sustainable Micro-Enterprise: Rural and Urban
Affordable, Improved, Plant-based Nutrition: Rural and Urban
Ten-fold reduction in GHGs, land & water use
Impact Achieved
Over 300,000 food consumers have received servings of affordable soymilk or yoghurt for an extended period
Over 5,000 primarily women entrepreneurs produced or are producing high-protein food in their communities
Cumulative profits for the entrepreneurs are over $4M, with no profit leakage to outside interests
Over 3,000 tons of carbon emissions have been saved
Local farmers have sold 2,500 tons of soybeans = annual output from over 1,000 smallholder farms
