Homegarden Scaling, Africa
The World Vegetable Center, in partnership with local collaborators, is developing appropriate vegetable seed kits along with participatory training systems for the production of nutritious vegetables through home gardens.
Impact and cost-effectiveness of women’s training in home gardening and nutrition in Bangladesh
This study quantifies the impact and cost-effectiveness of training poor rural women in Bangladesh in home gardening and nutrition. We find that the intervention significantly (p < 0.01) increased vegetable production (+16.5 g/person/day), vegetable consumption and the micronutrient supply from the garden.
Making wet compost to fertilize your home garden
This video demonstrates how to make wet compost, or compost tea, to use as fertilizer in your home garden (in Khmer).
Is my compost ready to use?
This video shows how to determine if your compost is ready to use in the garden (in Khmer).
Compost to enrich your garden soil
This video demonstrates how to set up a dry compost heap for home gardens in Cambodia (in Khmer).
Home gardens: Cambodia
This video demonstrates how to set up a 6 x 6 meter home vegetable garden in Cambodia (in Khmer).
They like it!
Lilian's children wouldn't eat the food she cooked. Now she grows vegetables that aren’t bitter, changed her cooking style, and has the kids eating healthy leafy greens every day.
Home gardens, healthy children, happy parents
School Principal Robina teaches her young students to grow vegetables and cook them for school lunch. The children are noticeably healthier, which has made her school very popular among parents.
The effect of women’s home gardens on vegetable production and consumption in Bangladesh
Women’s home gardens are an effective intervention in Bangladesh for increasing the supply and consumption of a diverse range of vegetables in poor rural households, thereby contributing to nutrition security.
Project Profile: Home Garden Scaling, Cambodia
This Feed the Future project aims to develop appropriate vegetable seed kits along with participatory training systems for production of nutritious vegetables in home gardens.