Smart Farming, Healthy Food (2020–2025) is a public-private partnership project to develop sustainable and climate-resilient smallholder vegetable production and supply systems in the coastal districts of Bangladesh.
Supported by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and implemented through a partnership between Solidaridad, East-West Seed (Knowledge Transfer), and the Bangladesh Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), the project is building the capacity of farmers on climate-smart agriculture to increase farm productivity and improve farmers’ resilience through adaptation and mitigation measures.
Smart Farming, Healthy Food is supporting 25,000 vegetable farmers (65% women) to adopt climate-resilient production systems, and to establish global sustainability standards to improve productivity and quality. This is being done through:
(1) Sustainable and climate-resilient smallholder vegetable production,
(2) Improvement in the input and output market system, and
(3) Creating an enabling environment for climate-resilient and sustainable vegetable production and supply systems through the development of a climate-smart Bangladesh GAP (Good Agricultural Practices) curriculum and capacity building of local extension officers.
A midterm evaluation of the project was conducted in March 2024 to assess results, learn from the approach, and plan improvements for the remaining implementation period.