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Rearing crickets for food and feed
People who traditionally eat insects, such as grasshoppers, termites, white ants or crickets catch them in the wild when they are in season. In some places there are now fewer edible insects because the environment has been damaged. Rearing insects on your farm can provide proteins throughout the year. Edible...
Uganda
2023 - Access Agriculture
Artículo de boletín informativo
Africa: The NARO PAH-safe fish smoking kiln
Greater support is needed for the adoption of a safe and effective fish smoking technology, associated with numerous positive socio-economic outcomes
Smoking fish is one of the most common methods of food preservation among fishing communities in Uganda. The most common species that fishing communities smoke include Nile Perch and Tilapia. However, one of the main hazards associated with traditional smoking methods is the risk of cancer due to Polycyclic Aromatic...
Uganda
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
The challenges of being a female farmer in Uganda
Nambiro Fatuma is a single mother of 4 kids that fully depend on her. She, on the other hand, depends on her income that comes from a family farm owned by her father. “I produce bananas, maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes, mangoes and avocados…” she says. “I once thought about starting a poultry...
Uganda
2023 - Food Security Center
Artículo de boletín informativo
Profile: Amplifying women’s voices
Amplifying women’s voices: Margaret Nakato’s important work in organising women in small-scale fisheries in Uganda has received international recognition. Margaret Nakato, Executive Director of the Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT), Uganda, was awarded the prestigious Margarita Lizárraga Medal for the biennium 2020-2021, at the launch event of the International Year of...
Uganda
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de boletín informativo
Uganda: A well-deserved award
During a virtual ceremony in 2021, the FAO Director-General, presented the Margarita Lizarraga Medal, to Margaret Nakato. During a virtual ceremony on the 19th of November 2021, the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu presented the Margarita Lizarraga Medal, to Margaret Nakato of the Katosi Women Development Trust in Uganda, whom he praised...
Uganda
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Artículo de blog
''Who says my land cannot be productive? A farmer’s journey to a forest full of food security!''
We are Magdalene and Gillian, trainers working for Kulika Uganda. We are passionate about seeing that people engaged in agriculture adopt sustainable farming practices which are easy to implement and have benefits for the people and the planet.
Kulika is a non-government organization working with rural communities to empower people to build...
Uganda
2022 - Barefoot Guide Connection, Agroecology Knowledge Hub and Family Farming Knowledge Platform.
Hoja informativa
Identikit of the East African youth agripreneur in the digital space
Food and Agricultural Organization’s Integrated Country Approach for boosting decent jobs for youth in agrifood systems carried out a digital readiness assessment of youth in agribusiness in partnership with the Eastern Africa Farmers Federation and youth-led organizations in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda.
Over 360 young male and female entrepreneurs engaged through...
Kenya - Rwanda - Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Artículo de blog
Talking Books provide an innovative solution to reach rural communities in Uganda
Programme uses ‘talking book’ audio players to share knowledge on women’s land rights
In partnership with Amplio, a US based nonprofit social enterprise, the pilot project has adopted these easy-to-use gadgets to engage around 8,000 people, sharing stories and ideas on women's land rights and their benefits for households and communities.
The Talking Books were developed by Amplio to reach remote, under-served rural populations that...
Uganda
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Creating resilient livelihoods for youth in small-scale food production
A collection of projects to support young people in achieving sustainable and resilient livelihoods and food security
This publication showcases initiatives that have been successfully implemented to help youth build resilience in the agrifood system, despite the severe consequences of climate change and formidable social and economic challenges. It aims to inspire potential policies and programmes by portraying key needs, challenges and initiatives, as well as lessons...
Afghanistan - Brazil - Colombia - Ecuador - El Salvador - Guatemala - Honduras - Kenya - Madagascar - Senegal - Thailand - Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Prácticas
Local Poultry Paravet Training Manual
To secure technical support in developing small animal sub sector in West Nile region, in 2012, the Agency For Accelerated Regional Development (AFARD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Africa Institute for Strategic Animal Resource Services and Development (AFRISA) a not-For-Profit and autonomous government institution furthering Academic-Community-Private-Public Partnership (ACP3) engagement...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
Vídeo
Farmer-to-farmer videos boost south-south knowledge exchange in Uganda and beyond
Digital tools are making access to information more and more possible, and participatory videos are a great way for farmers to share their experiences with other farmers in their own countries and beyond. In the RFS Uganda project sites, Farmer Field Schools have partnered up with Access Agriculture to get...
Uganda
2022 - Resilient Foos Systems
Artículo de blog
Resilience Food Stories
The smallholder farmers of Uganda
Today we are publishing the first stories of our journey to Uganda. It’s actually become one long story about Uganda’s small family farms. More than 70% of people in Uganda work in agriculture. The country has more than three and a half million family farms, and many of its smallholders are...
Uganda
2022
Artículo de blog
Resilience Food Stories
The smallholder farmers of Uganda
Today we are publishing the first stories of our journey to Uganda. It’s actually become one long story about Uganda’s small family farms. More than 70% of people in Uganda work in agriculture. The country has more than three and a half million family farms, and many of its smallholders are...
Uganda
2022
Manual
A technical manual for local poultry improvement using programmed hatching management method
Local chicken production has been identified as one of the livestock enterprises with great potential for reducing poverty and malnutrition among rural communities of northern and West Nile regions of Uganda. Almost all households in the region have been found to rear local chicken which they have used to solve...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
Directrices
Animal traction technology
Majority of farmers in the West Nile region of Uganda are smallholder farmers who produce for subsistence use and only sell the surplus yet they have vast and productive land for farming. Use of rudimentary tools like the hand hoe that are labour-intensive is predominant. The use of animal traction...
Uganda
2022 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
Estudio de caso
Money where it matters for nature and climate
Financing EbA lessons from China, Peru, Uganda and South Africa
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is a proven cost-effective approach to address interlinked societal challenges of biodiversity loss and climate change. Though there is still insufficient funding for it with little funding flowing to local implementors including local communities, indigenous people, local NGOs and governments.
This collection explores four distinctive but complementary finance...
China - Peru - South Africa - Uganda
2022 - International Climate Initiative ( IKI )
Estudio de caso
Africa Sustainable Livestock 2050: Awareness of livestock sector policies, laws and One Health among local animal health staff
Snapshot from a survey in six sub-regions in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
Livestock sector and One Health-related policies and laws provide the overarching framework that guides the development and transformation of the livestock sector. Local authorities, and in particular frontline animal health officers, are responsible for their implementation. To perform their function properly, frontline animal health officers should not only be technically...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Gender and Generational Differences in Local Knowledge and Preference for Food Trees in Central Uganda and Eastern Kenya
Food trees contribute substantially to the food and nutrition security of millions of rural households in Africa. Farming communities prioritize tree and shrub species on farms based on a combination of factors, including their knowledge of potential uses the species' economic potential and a range of constraints and opportunities that...
Kenya - Uganda
2022 - CIFOR-ICRAF
Estudio de caso
A new kind of fishing in Uganda
Diversifying income and skills to rebuild livelihoods on Lake Victoria
On the Ugandan shores of the largest lake in Africa, fishers were increasingly coming up empty-handed. Lake Victoria once boasted 500 species of fish but in recent years overfishing and poor fishing practices have taken a heavy toll on fish stocks, the environment and the communities who depend on them. ...
Uganda
2022 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Business models along the poultry value chain in Uganda
This report presents the business canvas, the business process modelling and the enterprise bugdet of entrpreneurs operating at the different nodes of the poultry value chain in urban and peri-urban Uganda
Uganda
2022 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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