PLUMAS: Empowering women through egg farming
The Dry Corridor is a region that has been identified by the United Nations in need of immediate assistance due to its alarming rates of poverty, water scarcity and food insecurity. This region Is partially located in Guatemala, a country where food insecurity and chronic malnutrition are already a challenge, having the sixth-highest rate of chronic malnutrition in the world and the highest in Latin America.
Driven by our purpose of ‘Feeding the Future’, Trouw Nutrition SCA with the support of the Community Development Project Initiative of Trouw Nutrition Global and in collaboration with the NGO Good Neighbors Guatemala initiated the PLUMAS project in 2017. PLUMAS aims to empower women in the community of La Fragua, within the Dry Corridor, to produce eggs – an extremely rich but very affordable source of protein.