Food security and sustainable agriculture
Helping rural communities and schools adapt to a changing climate and grow their own food.
Climate change is increasing food insecurity in many parts of the world.
It reduces the food available, pushes up prices while cutting incomes and jobs, makes supplies less stable, and lowers food safety. Rural families and the schools that feed their children are among the hardest hit.
Farming for a changing climate
The Riley Orton Foundation works with women, youth, rural farmers and schools to put climate change adaptation technologies into practice and improve production, including:
- Drip irrigation
- Vertical farming
- Shade gardening
- Conservation agriculture
- Agroforestry
Kitchen gardens that feed schools
We work with schools to establish climate-smart kitchen gardens that support lunch and school feeding programs sustainably. Students take part in building and tending the gardens, learning practical farming skills as they grow food for their own meals.
In 2025, a school kitchen garden at Oyiengo JSS provided sustainable meals for over 200 students.
Our goal
We aim to empower smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, and schools to adapt to the changing climate, enhancing both food security and the resilience of the ecosystems they depend on.
