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This project aims to enhance food security in Uganda, aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, focusing on "No Poverty" and "Zero Hunger." The key objectives include digitizing and commercializing smallholder farmers, improving their market access, ensuring product quality through traceability, and boosting household incomes. [...]

The Muni University-Omia Agribusiness Development Group (OADO) partnership operates in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda, an area facing challenges such as land degradation, poor soil health, and climate change. Historically a tobacco-growing region, it now relies on smallholder rainfed agriculture and is adopting high-value horticultural crops. Despite development interventions, [...]

As urbanization progresses, accessing nutritious and healthy foods has become challenging for households and communities due to the complex nature of food systems and poverty. The Urban Food Hives Initiative (UFH) in Uganda aims to build resilient, nutritious, equitable, and regenerative food systems in Kampala, with a focus on the [...]

Producers in the Karamoja region of Uganda, one of the poorest region in the country, face challenges related to persistent insecurity, vulnerability to climate change, illiteracy, poor physical infrastructure and access to services, as well as scarce extension services with an extremely low ratio of 1 extension officer for 1:1 [...]

NGO Development in Gardening (DIG) adapted the Farmer Field School (FFS) model to support the Batwa, an indigenous forest-dwelling community forcibly evicted from their ancestral land in the early 1990s for gorilla conservation purposes. Traditionally hunter-gatherers, the Batwa were displaced without compensation, resettled on marginal lands, barred from entering their [...]

Since most Ugandans live in rural areas and practice farming, raising agriculture incomes a centrepiece of Uganda’s National Development Plan is critical to reducing poverty, boosting prosperity and creating jobs, especially for women and youth. Challenges notwithstanding, Ugandan agriculture has enormous potential to transform the economy and make farming much [...]

Conventional approaches to agricultural extension based on top–down technology transfer and information dissemination models are inadequate to help smallholder farmers tackle increasingly complex agroclimatic adversities. Innovative service delivery alternatives, such as field schools, exist but are mostly implemented in isolationistic silos with little effort to integrate them for cost reduction [...]

This report unpacks and explores farmer-managed seed systems and their contribution to food and seed sovereignty, including the benefits they provide to farming communities as a part of their sociocultural, economic, spiritual and ecological livelihoods. The report highlights, exposes and explores how these systems work. It builds on reports of [...]

This book compiles a set of 26 papers that present the direct, practical experiences and results of a large number of local practitioners and experts that supported the Transboundary agro-ecosystem management project of the Kagera river basin (Kagera TAMP) during the period 2010-2015. The book has been compiled by the [...]

This manual aims to guide TOT on FFS on coffee production; a yearlong FFS curriculum is foreseen. Various group diagnostics are introduced such as voting, spider web, problem periodization and ballot box and a sample AESA sheet is provided on coffee as well as information on the distribution of trees [...]