Agriculture

She says her livelihood has improved greatly because she can now pay her children’s school fees in better boarding schools, cater for basic needs and afford food for her family.

The OLUM model is providing hope to refugees in Adjumani, empowering them to take control of their food security and livelihoods

Today, she distributes sunflower seeds to farmers and buys their harvest for oil pressing.

Plastic bottles, which would typically take a decade to decompose, can now be reused as valuable tools in drip irrigation systems.

The four-acre model is seen as the magic bullet for smallholder farmers who constitute the majority of the farming population in Uganda

Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, northern Uganda farmers’ rigidity in traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing, and low penetration by private soil testing actors in remote areas have limited the accessibility of soil testing. The costs associated with […]

In the face of climate change and economic challenges, hybrid maize has become a vital tool for farmers in Lira, offering not only greater yields and income but also greater resilience against the shifting climate.

Amolatar is one of the districts participating in the Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project

In Uganda’s eastern district of Kapchorwa, women farmers, just like male farmers,  have historically depended on erratic rain-fed agriculture, a practice that often left them at the mercy of unpredictable weather patterns. However, a remarkable transformation is underway as some of these women discover and embrace groundwater harvesting for farming. They dig deep wells to […]

Over 25 million people in DRC face acute food insecurity and South Ubangi is not an exception

As awareness about the potential of this hidden resource grew, local farmers and agricultural organizations began to experiment with groundwater

For many years, the residents of Lobule Sub County in Koboko district endured torrent life due to dry long spells that adversely affected their agricultural output.  Women were especially hardest hit as for various reasons, much of the burden of fending for the family rested on their shoulders while men took the backseat. The situation […]