Healthy Foods for Consumers Initiative is registered charity/non-government organization (NGO) which was initiated in 2004 focusing on food and nutrition security, diversification and value addition adoption in selected rural areas of Nigeria.
Good health and long life with quality food consumption is our crucial summit. Emphatically you are what you eat, which means that what you eat today will tell of your health the next day/future. Information is very important of which the consumers could utilize if available on the daily basis. Consumers should make more efficient eating habit through the activities of HeFCi for good health and sustainable living.

Vision
To promote the adoption of healthy and adequate food consumption habits for long life as well as income generating opportunities from plant and animal in an ecological and sustainable environment.

Mission
Develop resources and dissemination of information that will assist consumers in making better food choices thereby embracing ecologically, socially and economically acceptable food consumption pattern based on the principles of organic agriculture.

HeFCi specific objectives

• Ensure that consumers understand the importance of healthy and adequate food consumption by knowing the source of what they eat (production system used- organic or inorganic) and the type of processing methods they undergo.
• Assist the consumer to identify some of the functional foods (understanding the medicinal foods, especially fruits and leafy vegetables) that are becoming extinct and encourage planting and replanting.
• Design and implement food production diversification and value addition that will address health, social and economic challenges(targeting farmers, women, youths, prisoners in agriculture) and market outlets
• Facilitate extension education conditions for the targeted vulnerable groups (school children, youths, women, pregnant and breast feeding mothers, diabetic and HIV/AIDS patients) on community diet remedy.
• Improve health and livelihoods of the rural dwellers through promotion of organic/ecological friendly agriculture among farming communities.
• Promote gender equity in access to food.

Strategies

• Conduct workshops to promote required information/develop capacity of consumers and vulnerable groups on resource management, using extension education strategies.
• Conduct training workshops for farmers, processors and those who prepare school meals.
• Develop market outlets for organic products.
• Network with government agencies and non-governmental organizations.
• Mobilize resources for facilitating Healthy Foods for Consumers Initiative activities.

student and those who train them

Target Groups

• School children and those who prepare school meals.
• Youths
• Farmer’s group
• Women
• Elderly
• Vulnerable groups (HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Hypertensive and diabetic patients etc.)
• Prisoners

Nature of HeFCi

• Charity/Non-governmental Organization (NGO)
• Non-partisan
• Contributing towards healthy and adequate food consumption for good health and long life
• Contribute to resource oriented development
• Working on community development eco-friendly/organic agricultural diversification and value addition
• Work as coordinator and facilitator of related programmes

Contact Us
The project Coordinator
Prof. Nkiru T. Meludu (PhD)
Healthy Foods for Cosumers Initiative
c/o Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
University of Ibadan
E mail: nkiru_m@yahoo.com
Hefci.contact@gmail.com