Providing supplies and technologies to strengthen local food security

Food security is an extremelyimportant issue to countries around the world. FAO publishes a report each year and zero hunger is listed as the second goal in the UN Sustainable Development Goals announced in 2015. After COVID-19 began to sweep the world, many countries adopted border control measures for people and goods. This further affected the food supply chain and impacted vulnerable countries and groups even more severely in terms of food security. Hence, we focused on vulnerable groups and provided aid through the increased production of long shelf-life vegetables and fruits; provided seeds, seedlings, and agricultural materials free of charge; implemented a purchase program that provides guidance to farmers for producing agricultural products and distributes the products to remote areas; and provided subsidies to farmers for agricultural materials and seedlings.