World Vision and Food Plant Solutions

World Vision is partnering with Food Plant Solutions to promote locally available, nutrient-dense, low-cost foods that empower caregivers to rehabilitate malnourished children and strengthen the resilience of their communities.

Food Plant Solutions creates clear, science based resources that explain what nutritious food is, why it matters, and how to grow and use it. Focusing on 'opportunity crops,' - nutrient-dense local plants already thriving in their environments - they equip caregivers and communities to make informed food choices. By drawing on the Food Plants International database, they tailor educational materials that describe how to cultivate and prepare these plants, outline their key nutrients, and explain how the body uses them. This helps families decide what to grow and eat to nourish their households effectively. Food Plant Solutions now supports work in more than 60 countries and offers over 250 free resources.

Dan Irvine, World Vision's Global Director for Health and Nutrition, speaks to the partnership in the video below:

Food Plant Solutions offers an excellent suite of tools and resources which perfectly complement WV's food-based approaches in over 20 countries around the world. In these programmes, we identify local food solutions to address underweight in children. Micronutrient-rich neglected and unerutilised species are a very important opportunity for these children. Together, we're going to bring local food solutions to the plates of needy children around the world.

Learn more about World Vision's work with food-based approaches, such as Positive Deviance Hearth.