Rural women are encouraged to work hard to address food insecurity by setting up income-generating projects given the rising prices of basic foods and commodities.

This advice was given by a farmer, Edla Kandando, who owns both layer and broiler chicken projects at Omitivine Village in the Aminuis Constituency. 

According to Kandando, the owner of the Jaama Chicken Project, food security at the household level should become an urgent matter for rural communities.
 
Kandando, who is now farming more than six hundred chickens, started off on a low note, but today, through this project, she supports her family as well as fellow residents and caters to nearby local schools. We realized that the price of eggs was prohibitively expensive for me; I was never buying eggs in stores because of the prices, because I have four children, and a packet of 30 only lasts a few days before being consumed, so we decided to embark on this project to create food security for our own household, as well as at the village and national levels."

She, however, admitted that running these types of projects is not a walk in the park, especially when one needs modern equipment, which is costly.

Despite the challenges, Kandando is encouraging more women to embark on such projects so they can contribute to the upliftment of their living standards and com