Food Basket Foundation International: Profile, mission statement and activities

• Published in: Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 286 - 290
• Main Author: Akinyele, Isaac O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne, Australia Blackwell Science Pty 01.12.1999
• Subjects: Africa; Food Basket Foundation International; Food Security; Nigeria
• ISSN: 0964-7058; 1440-6047
• DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-6047.1999.00124.x

The Food Basket Foundation International (FBFI) is an indigenous non‐governmental organization (NGO) which was set up to assist low income families, especially those from vulnerable groups, achieve nutrition security on a sustainable basis. The Foundation was formed in 1988 by a group of professionals in nutrition, communication, medicine, the social sciences (economics, sociology, psychology), law and agriculture, based on the recognition that governments’ efforts at providing basic needs to the poor and guaranteeing them opportunities to adequately feed themselves and their families contained a missing link between program planning and implementation. Food Basket Foundation International was registered in March 1989 under the Land Perpectual Succession Act CAP 98. The fundamental objective of the FBFI is to create appropriate awareness among members of the public in an effort to influence government policies and programs to sustain the development of the grassroots. In addition, the Foundation initiates, and cooperates with, community‐based organizations to bring about social and economic changes based on improvement in the traditional systems with which people are familiar for the attainment of food and nutrition security within a sustainable livelihood system.