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Empowering youth to engage in responsible investment in agriculture and food systems

Engaging young women and men in an agricultural sector characterized by an ageing labour force is crucial to ensure sustainable food security, reduce youth unemployment and combat unplanned migration. By harnessing their innovative potential, utilizing new technologies and techniques and taking advantage of new opportunities in emerging value chains, young...
Côte d'Ivoire - Malawi - Mozambique - Namibia - South Africa - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
Mobile Pastoralists: The Challenge of Livestock Markets in Karamoja Uganda

This article explores livestock markets and the use of pastoralist mobility to gradually enhance the growing cattle economy in Karamoja, Uganda; cases are provided in this article of the best practices in the livestock trade and communities, involved both inside and outside of Karamoja. The challenges and recommendations that can lead to the...
Uganda
2019 - The Global Forum on Agricultural Research and Innovation GFAR

Guidelines
Field guide to improve water use efficiency in small-scale agriculture

The case of Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda
Enhancing water use efficiency requires actions at all levels, from agricultural practitioners to scheme managers, and up to the policy-makers. The objective of this Guide Book is to show practical measures to improve water use efficiency in small-scale agriculture based on case studies from Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda. The...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Policy guide to improve water use efficiency in small-scale agriculture

The case of Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda
Enhancing the productivity and efficiency of agricultural water is key to increase food production and respond to the growing food demand, while at the same time preserving healthy and sustainable ecosystems. Even more so in drought- and desertification-prone areas, whereby agricultural production is negatively affected by climate change, erratic rainfall...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Exploring inclusive palm oil production

ETFRN news 59
This ETFRN News edition brings together 24 articles and interviews from around the world that reflect on the following questions: How do such actions and their impacts differ between different smallholder types and organizations? How do they differ between countries, regions and corporate contexts? What are the effects of various...
Brazil - Cameroon - Colombia - Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana - Honduras - Indonesia - Nigeria - Papua New Guinea - Peru - Sierra Leone - Solomon Islands - Uganda
2019 - Tropenbos International

Case study
Field guide to improve water use efficiency in small-scale agriculture

The case of Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda
The role of irrigation in gearing agriculture development towards a broader economic growth is undeniable. Accordingly, irrigation is growing into key operational strategy for governments and their agencies to increase agricultural productivity, thus combatting food insecurity and boosting overall growth. While agriculture absorbs rural workforce, generates income and increases food...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Policy brief/paper
Policy guide to improve water use efficiency in small-scale agriculture

The case of Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda
Agriculture is still the engine of growth in the overall economic well-being in an increasingly globalized world. Therefore, many countries aspire the economic development through agriculture, thus making it the most important driver in water exploitation. While the demand is rapidly growing, water resources are becoming limited that leads to...
Burkina Faso - Morocco - Uganda
2019 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Case study
Improving women farmers’ access to quality seeds in Uganda

Small-scale farmers, particularly women, face challenges that affect their seed sovereignty such as lack of access to quality seed, the infl ux of fake seeds in the markets, and increasing pressure from multinational corporations. With all these challenges it is diffi cult to increase production and productivity to achieve food...
Uganda
2019 - ESAFF

Technical paper
e-Agriculture Promising Practice

aWhere’s agronomic and weather based tips for smallholder farmers
aWhere delivers agricultural intelligence to farmers, farm managers, crop consultants and researchers all over the world. The company aims at making agronomic and weather data available to farmers through intermediaries such as research centers, governments, information companies, mobile network operators and non profit organizations which can integrate the data into...
Ghana - Kenya - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Report
Resilience analysis of Karamoja, Uganda 2016

The region of Karamoja, located in the northeast of Uganda, is the poorest and least developed region in the country. Historically, Karamoja has been a pastoral area; crop production, which is less reliable there, has recently emerged as an important source of household food and income in some areas. Although...
Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Video
Promoting Decent Rural Youth Employment in Agriculture

This video describes the Integrated Country Approach, an FAO’s youth project in Uganda which provides strategic technical support to government of Uganda in developing youth inclusive National Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment in Agriculture. The project also supports evidence generation, dialogues and training. Through capacity building, the ability of...
Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Video
Promoting decent rural youth employment in agriculture

This video describes the Integrated Country Approach, an FAO’s youth project in Uganda which provides strategic technical support to the government of Uganda in developing youth inclusive National Policies and Strategies for Youth Employment in Agriculture. The project also supports evidence generation, dialogues and training. Through capacity building, the ability...
Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Blog article
The real seed producers

Small-scale farmers save, use, share and enhance the seed diversity of the crops that feed Africa
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...
Ethiopia - Mali - Senegal - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2018 - AFSA

Fact sheet
Country factsheet on small family farms: UGANDA

The Smallholder Farmers’ Data portrait is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers across the world. This Factsheet generates an overview on how small family farmers in Uganda live their lives by using the Data Portrait, putting an emphasis on the constraints they face, the...
Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Miscellanea
Smallholders data-portrait

The updated dataset on Small Family Farms across the world
The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait of the ESA Small Family Farms Team is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers, bringing out the characteristics of family farms across the world. It is designed in such a way that differences between countries and regions can be...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Ghana - Guatemala - Indonesia - Kenya - Malawi - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Panama - Tajikistan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO

Case study
Constructing markets for agroecology

An analysis of diverse options for marketing products from agroecology
The purpose of this study is to explore whether and how products from agroecological production systems are being valued in markets. The study is based on a meta-analysis of 12 case studies (Benin, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Namibia, Uganda), mainly from...
Benin - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Brazil - Chile - China - Colombia - Ecuador - France - Kazakhstan - Mozambique - Namibia - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
The determinants of crop yields in Uganda: what is the role of climatic and non-climatic factors?

It is widely accepted that crop yields will be affected by climate change. However, the role played by climate in affecting crop yields vis-a-vis non-climatic stresses, is often unclear, limiting decision choices around efforts to promote increased production in light of multiple stresses.
Uganda
2018 - Agriculture & Food Security

Policy brief/paper
Ending hunger in the Horn of Africa

Moving from rhetoric to action
Food insecurity and poor nutritional status remain widespread problems in the Horn of Africa (HOA). A multi-pronged nutrition-sensitive approach to development has been shown to be the best route for sustained reductions in undernutrition. One of the objectives of this report was to review Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) coordination...
Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - South Sudan - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Journal article
La trajectoire d’institutionnalisation de l’agriculture biologique en Ouganda, success story de l’Afrique subsaharienne

Cet article analyse la progressive institutionnalisation de l’agriculture biologique en Ouganda depuis les années 1990, marquée par l’existence de 200 000 producteurs certifiés biologiques, un mouvement national, ainsi qu’une politique dédiée en cours d’élaboration. Cette success story s’explique par une agriculture au départ « biologique par défaut » (absence d’utilisation d’intrants chimiques de synthèse) et...
Uganda
2018 - Université Paris-Est

Article
The Future of Uganda is in Danger: Stop Land Grabbing!

An increase in land grabbing has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
Due to land grabbing, native forests and local biodiversity are being lost, people are being evicted from their homes and forced to give up their lands, along with all the other problems linked to the large-scale use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Some individual cases are reported in the booklet “Let’s...
Uganda
2018 - Slow Food
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