Project Title: Building resilient, nutritious equitable food systems in Kampala and Soroti

Context:

Urban farming in Uganda was born out of the political and economic crises of the 1970s and is widely practiced in Kampala today. Vegetable production and livestock keeping—primarily poultry, dairy cattle, and pigs—are the dominant components of UPA systems, along with the cultivation of cassava and other staple crops in peri-urban areas.

The Urban Peri Urban (UPA) sector has deep roots in the urban food system and is practiced across low- to high-income classes and has strong participation from women in the production arena. The sector contributes to nutritional and food security, and the vitality of the informal market, as well as helping to reduce the urban waste stream through productive reuse of organic waste as livestock feed and an input to vegetable production. Despite its important role, UPA is subject to many constraints, which mostly revolve around a lack of adequate space for agriculture in the urban core and the loss of valuable cropland to urban expansion in peri-urban areas.  

Urban Food Hives are ecosystems that support regenerative, equitable, and nourishing food systems of the future.

PROJECT AIM:

Promote access to safe, healthy foods by strengthening agroecological farming, urban food linkages and marketing, access to capital for food producer groups led by women and youth, and private sector engagement, while advocating for secure land rights. 

PARTICIPANTS:

  • Youth and women that are already engaged in urban farming activities.
  • 50 households and 2 groups composed of 15 – 30 members

 EXPECTED RESULTS:

  • Improved nutrition of urban households, therefore nutrition security
  • Increased awareness for what nourishing food diets 5/ Embedding climate smart technology
  • Enhancing technical capacities and access to appropriate technologies/inputs for youth, women, and urban poor households for scaling up urban farming

PARTNERS:

Implementing Partner:

  • Community Integrated Development Initiatives (CIDI)

Consultancy Partner:

  • JERO Farm

FUNDED BY:

  • Oxfam US

BUDGET:

  • €108,887

PROJECT DURATION

  • 3 years (2021-2024)

GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE:

 Kampala and Soroti

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