Sowing Diversity = Harvesting Security – Annual Report 2019

The Sowing Diversity = Harvesting Security (SD=HS) program helps empower indigenous peoples and smallholder farmers to reclaim their role in contributing to food security and to strengthen their adaptive capacities. The program collaborates with other stakeholders towards more crop diversity in order to secure a sustainable and gender-just food production system that serves everyone. The 2019 report highlights the following key outcomes of SD=HS, as it entered Phase II: (1) the program directly reached 33,600 farmers and indigenous people in eight countries, (2) SD=HS established and supported 374 Farmer Field Schools, (3) the program trained 7,300 smallholder farmers and indigenous people, over 50% of them are women, and, (4) SD=HS made avalable 496 new varieties of over 20 crops to Farmer Field Schools.