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ACDI/VOCA is a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. that encourages and supplies economic opportunities for companies and communities, whilst promoting sustainable practices. NAFAKA is a project in Tanzania, in which it is believed that by increasing the incomes of smallholder farmers in Tanzania, food security will improve and by increasing access to food, malnutrition will decrease. To do so, they are working in Morogo, Dodoma and Manyara to improve competitiveness of rice and maize on the market by improving relationships, giving rise to greater domestic trade and regional trade, as well as increasing awareness of the value of nutrition in rural households by encouraging women to partake in development. The strategies include “association”, which joins together farmers, resulting in economies of scale thereby improving their chances on the market. The NAFAKA project comes under the Feed the Future Initiative, which is backed by USAID. It is a $30 million development project working specifically to increase production and revenue in the rice and maize value chains. This is a key example of how NGOs backed by government aid can succeed in guiding development and increasing food security. The project itself as well as the NGO has no other goals but to benefit the farmers and their families. By increasing their access and competitiveness on the market, these farmers have a better chance of increasing their incomes and standards of living and ultimately, their food security. If they are given the opportunities that ACDI/VOCA says they are providing them with, they should also have food security well into the future because they have been given the ‘push’ they need to be able to increase the quality of their cro...

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...the question is whether or not the problem of world hunger is significant enough. How will it be possible to convince governments to give money to NGOs who have no political motives? How will NGOs be able to communicate with each other to create an adequate platform that can serve as a networking system? The probability of that is that the Internet will play a key role. Another question is who will convince governments of the importance of feeding the world over improving their own economies?

Although it has already been made clear that everyone in the world can be fed, it is just as important to understand who can feed the world. Although NGOs are not generally recognized as having the capability to tackle such an enormous challenge, it is clear from the investigation that they have the right aims and goals to do so; they just need the funding they deserve.

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