FAROF Continue to support interventions targeted towards locally available products.

The aim is to find a sustainable solution through the use of tailor-made plans aimed at creating healthy habits.

The CEO of FAROF- (Amb. Eunice A. Aimofunmeh) and CEO of LUTAM farms (Mrs. Uchechukwu Okoli) has agreed to strengthen partnership in reducing the rate of malnutrition in Nigeria through the introduction of the super cereal meal called the Wonder Food Cereal, a composition of locally available food, such as vitamin A maize, orange flesh sweet potatoes, soya and groundnut.

Key Findings

Evidence from program implementation indicates that the Wonder Food Cereal produced by Lutam Farms Limited is highly effective in addressing Acute Malnutrition (MAM) among children under five, thus addressing hinden hunger a major cause of malnutrition.

• In 2023, a total of 34 children were treated at Nasarawa PHC and Rafingusa PHC in Kaduna State.
• In 2024, the intervention scaled significantly, reaching 1,550 children.
• In 2025, the program is targeting to reach over 2,000 children with the Wonder Food Cereal.

Program data shows that:

• Children with MUAC <10.5 cm (moderate acute malnutrition) achieved full recovery within 4–7 weeks using Wonder Food Cereal.
• In cases requiring extended nutritional support, recovery to ≥12 cm MUAC was achieved within 8 weeks.

These results demonstrate the strong potential of locally produced, biofortified complementary foods as an effective, scalable solution for combating child malnutrition at the community level.

Recommendation:

Indigenous food for treating malnutrition should be encourage, adopting the use of meals like the Wonder Food Cereal to prevent and treat malnutrition in children, pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, while it should be adopted by the Nigeria state governments, NGOs running nutrition programs and other individuals who wishes to have a healthy meal..