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Expertise and Capabilities

With its food technology solutions as a base, MM infuses its small-business knowledge and its substantial project design, planning, implementation and M&E skills, together with key partner capabilities, to deliver programs with lasting impacts in the target communities, including:

• empowerment of women and youth,
• improved nutrition and health outcomes,
• alleviation of poverty through local economic benefit with no profit leakage,
• increased income to smallholder farmers who grow soybeans locally,
• environmental sustainability through delivery of whole protein with much decreased land, energy and water usage (compared to the animal-protein chain)

Global Installations (Existing + Committed)

Malnutrition Matters offers project design / management and general support for technical and non-technical aspects of the technologies and the production of various foods. Key capabilities, based on two decades of implementation are:

• food product development and nutrition,
• distribution and sales,
• local partner selection and entrepreneur recruitment,
• best practices in deploying and scaling food technologies,
• capacity building in local organizations, governmental and non-governmental,
• development of business guides and training material,
• delivering training for local NGO's, small businesses and first-time entrepreneurs (including training of trainers),
• support for incubation of micro-enterprises, including simple business tools both technology-based and paper-based.
  
  

MM, together with its partners, can offer technical services including: customer surveys / household surveys, (both nutritional and economic), market assessments, food product acceptance surveys (including organoleptic testing).

Our global technical expertise includes skills in:

• equipment design and testing,
• fabrication and technology transfer,
• training,
• business model development and entrepreneurship,
• project design and management and M&E,
• logistics and quality control.
  
  

We have developed a global network of professional associates and affiliated agencies in Canada, Europe, USA, India, Kenya, Myanmar, Ghana and South Africa who provide installation and training services, or other consulting for food-processing technologies, technology assessment, equipment design and technical support for SoyaKit, VitaGoat and SoyCow installations as well as SolarFlex and Heat Pump food dryers.

MM offers the technology transfer expertise necessary for setting-up local fabrication or assembly of sub-systems of the food technology, or of setting up local training and service centers.

For a complete picture of MM’s capabilities, see the MM Capabilities Statement