Healthier lives and more resilient livelihoods through sustainable vegetable gardening: Integrated Agricultural Association (I.A.A) carries out experiment, builds collaboration, planting kitchen gardens and promotion activities to raise awareness of the role of vegetables for improved health and rural poverty alleviation.

Vegetables can alleviate poverty by creating new jobs and new sources of income for farmers and landless laborers, improve health by providing essential micronutrients lacking in diets, enhance learning and working capacities of adults and children through improved diets and health, and improve the sustainability of food production practices through mixed cropping. The Organization’s development work focuses on smallholder empowerment, developing and promoting safe production practices, reducing postharvest losses, and improving the nutritional value of vegetables. It increases smallholder farmer income and improve the quality of life as it is a major source of cash money for many families. Vegetable production provides an opportunity for poor rural population to come out of poverty, as it is a major source of fast income for most of the families. It’s generate income and jobs for smallholder farmers and landless especially the youths and women. It has many advantages over most other agricultural enterprises. In 2023, Integrated Agricultural Association (IAA) distributed over 25,000 packets of vegetable seeds in Northwest and West regions of Cameroon, which is enough to grow over 400,000 servings of food rich in vitamin, minerals, energy and fibre for malnourish households and the society as a whole.