Eat As Well As YOU Possibly Can...

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Do your best to eat well for YOU and YOUR family. There are benefits, but also problems, including:

• Costs and inflation
• Food insecurity
• Perishability of foods
• Climate change

Absolutely, there are many benefits. Do YOUR very best to eat as well as you possibly can...

Nourishing foods include:

• Fruits & Vegetables
• Dairy & Eggs
• Fish
• Meat, including bushmeat

 Lack of nourishment can result in ill health (e.g. cholera, diarrhoea, malaria, pneumonia) and slow down development for children. YOU and your family need nourishing foods.

To reduce the perishability of food, YOU can:

• Throw out and food which is rancid
• Boil liquids to kill any existing microbes
• Preserve food by burying it
• Preserve food by cooling, curing or heating

Perishable foods include: meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy, leftovers. Non-perishable foods include: rice, flour, spices, oils, processed foods which are uncontaminated.

Food insecurity problems (per unicef.org) are a result of:

• Ongoing inflation
• Low uptake of best practices in early childhood care & feeding
• High burden of environment-related communicable diseases
• Inadequate access to health, water, hygiene & sanitation

It is important to understand possible impact for YOU and your family.

Climate change in Liberia causes many problems and vulnerable to climate change: 

• Due to location it is vulnerable to changing extreme weather
• Liberia already suffers from soil infertility and low crop yields 
• The coastal effects of sea level rise 
• Climate change is expected to impact the economy of Liberia, especially agriculture, fisheries, and forestry.

Will impact food costs and availability for YOU and your family.

Greenhouse growing and "commercial" farming can help YOU:

• Plastic tunnelling
• Farmers cooperate
• Reduces supply costs (eg fertiliser) 
• Selling together in volume

In greenhouses it is important to water your crops deeply and regularly. It is also important to fertilise crops and always watch for pests.