Latin America and the Caribbean

This project consists of a platform to identify and support initiatives that come "from the heart of the community" and have an important and sustainable development potential linked to food security, nutrition, and markets. It aims at supporting creative and innovative initiatives that leverage the community's ancestral knowledge, that empower women and value elders’ wisdom, and that will help translate the rich community's cultural heritage, values, and products into sustainable socio-economic development opportunities.

This solution comes in the form of a low cost, portable, rainwater harvesting system for refugee camps and off grid settlements. Rainwater is the cleanest source of naturally occurring water, and by allowing families to collect it from their own roof, they can maintain a clean source of water right at their doorstep. Although rainwater is naturally clean, the project can service ancillary products and recommend a three-step filtration process to remove any detritus that may get washed off of the roof.

This project seeks to connect home grown farmers to schools to enhance school meals and nutrition by building an entire demand and supply network using technology and a reliable network and data management platform that assures transparency, traceability, and data permanency, while positioning WFP as a strategic player for school feeding.

A Do Tank of Private Sector solutions for the creation of Employment with Dignity in Latin American BOP communities. Its mission is the inclusion of Latin America’s vulnerable populations into the formal economy through AI micro work. By investing in training and recruiting these people to perform data annotation tasks will help them generate income and develop the digital skills they need to springboard them up the Employment Integration Ladder.

Deliver valuable and user-friendly information on good nutrition to families in Peru. Following 3 years using different channels to promote good nutrition and healthy eating habits, they seek to create a new product that continues to improve the nutrition of households in Peru, not least in a challenging post pandemic context. The project is a technological bridge between accurate information and families with nutrition needs.

Offers a solution using Growboxes and Waterboxes to grow trees and vegetables using less than 90% of water if compared with drip irrigation while achieving a survival rate of the planted materials of at least 90%. A technology that uses simple boxes to grow a productive tree and surrounding plants considerably reducing water usage and hence making farming possible in dry areas.

A tool powered by blockchain technology to create dynamic digital cooperatives specifically for the most marginalised groups -female smallholders and youth - who have limited profiles in global food value chains increasing increase their financial independence, food security, and incomes scaling-up their on-farm diversification products and facilitating market access, payments, and digital records utilising blockchain.