“Building Local Economies in East Africa through Agroecology’’ is a project implemented by Slow Food and funded by the Agroecology Fund with the aim of boosting local economies and improving the livelihood of communities in Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.

Slow Food Uganda in collaboration with Slow Food International is working in Uganda to increase the ability of local communities to produce good, clean, and fair food and support activities that strengthen the positive impact of agroecology in the local territories. Example of such activities includes: developing an academy to create regional coordination linking all Slow Food projects and their practices on agroecology; creation of ecological gardens in schools to support the development of agroecological food systems, awareness-raising and training events on agroecology, dissemination of effective and cost-efficient agroecological solutions through the Slow food academy.