Livelihoods Enhanced

Agricultural Production

Training and inputs support we gave to smallholder farmers enabled:

68 percent of benefiting farmers to produce sufficient food to provide for the nutritional needs of their individual households for an average period of eight months.

Benefiting farmers to yield 16.11 metric tonnes of beans and 12.84 metric tonnes of groundnuts; thus attaining a harvest to sowing ratio of 1:6 for beans and 1:4 for groundnuts.

Benefiting farmer group to plant 15 kilograms of sesame in a three acre garden and to harvest 100 kilograms of dried sesame seed.

Income Generation

Benefiting farmers applied their new learning of bulk marketing and sold to Mukwano Industries agents.60 percent of sunflower seed (30,000 kilograms) produced from their demo fields we jointly established for farmer field schools training sessions.

Benefiting households consistently saved 1,000 to 3,000 shillings weekly. Thousands of benefiting farmers actively saved with their respective group village savings and loan associations. Saving over 133 million shillings combined with which they accessed loans to members of over 98 million shillings combined. A single farmers group accumulated over 10 million shillings in welfare funds.

Social Capital Nurtured

Formal and informal farmer group networks were formed and cohesion among farmer group members nurtured. And through these networks, households supported each other, in order to cope with adverse effects of unanticipated shocks, such as drought and insecurity.

The networks, in addition, for example, created a safe environment for people living with HIV and AIDS to speak openly about their status and to receive social support that enabled them and their households to live positively, without fear.

Mission

CPAR Uganda is on a mission to stimulate the development. dissemination, and widespread application of technologies suitable for conditions in developing countries, in order to contribute to building healthy communities.

In 2012/2013, we did exactly that and we are proud of our achievements.