Louvain Coopération is active in four areas: healthcare, access to healthcare, development education, and food and economic security.
While development education is mainly aimed at the Belgian public, Louvain Coopération's three other areas of expertise are carried out in the South (see infographic opposite). Food and economic security activities are developed on three continents.
But what does this area cover?
For the United Nations, food and economic security (FES) corresponds to physical, social and economic access to sufficient healthy and nutritious food for the populations concerned, in order to guarantee them a healthy and active life. Quantity, quality, nutrition and economics are therefore at the heart of the concept.
Louvain Coopération is committed to this approach by structuring its FES activities around four areas: 1) supporting producers or entrepreneurs in income-generating activities; 2) improving and diversifying production processes and sources of income; 3) structuring civil society and training populations; and 4) developing cooperatives and unions. Just as it would be utopian to believe that SAE alone could eradicate poverty, it would be naïve to think that a single solution could be transferred from one country to another. Consequently, while Louvain Coopération's intervention is fundamentally consistent, its work varies from one region to another depending on the context, possible synergies and local dynamics and cultures.