The programme develops productive and disaster resilient systems for food production and improved livelihood security taking a systems approach and addressing the market and resource management blockages that undermine food security and livelihood wellbeing in order to:

• To improve access of poor people living in fragile rural environments to technologies, skills and natural resources that contribute to food security and sustainable livelihoods; and
• To strengthen the capacity of vulnerable people to cope with risks due to natural and man-made hazards including impacts of climate change, through improved access to technologies and decision making processes on disaster risk reduction (DRR).