Areas of operation
- Soroti
- Hoima
- Lwengo
- Amuria
- Buliisa
- Nwoya
- Gomba
- Katakwi
- Kikuube
- Rakai
- Sembabule
- Yumbe
- Pakwach
- Kyotera
- Bukedea
Target categories of beneficiaries.
- Smallholder Farmers
- Women and the Youth
- Urban Dwellers
- Learners in primary Schools
What We Do
- a) Organize communities into strong farmer organizations and cooperatives.
- b) Capacity building of smallholder farmers in collective marketing and value addition.
- c) Provision of business development services, to the smallholder farmers by channeling them through their farmer organizations.
- d) Provide sustainable agriculture training and technologies to the target beneficiaries.
- e) Promotion of school feeding programs among the beneficiary primary schools.
- f) Promotion of urban farming technologies.
- g) Awareness creation on climate change impacts and adaptation through:
What we have achieved so far:
- 318 functional Farmer organizations and 8 cooperatives have been established.
- Over 38,160 smallholder farmers have benefited from collective marketing by selling produce worth UGX. 5,239,398,640 per year.
- 75% of the farmer organizations have a formal memorandum of understanding with strong off-takers that have the required capacity to guarantee meaningful prices and market. These also provide credit services to the smallholder farmers and so far they have accessed financial resources to a tune of over UGX. 549,950,000.
- Over 106,000 women and 44,000 youth have been supported to engage in income-generating activities such as apiary, piggery, horticulture, and goat rearing.
- Over 17,284 learners in 16 Primary schools have acquired knowledge of good agronomic practices through the school feeding programme.
- 17,925 Households have been enrolled in VSLAs-Village Savings and Loan Associations.
- 257,426 trees planted for climate change and over (Rakai, Kyotera, Wakiso, Yumbe/BidiBidi, Soroti, Karamoja).