According to the food basket costs estimates for 16 households in Lango Sub-Region that we made during our training, five households did not include fruits in their food items for an entire month. This is possible because people do not…
Tag: Human Nutrition Security
DOING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS
CPAR Uganda has partnered with Alinga Farms to add value to eboo (cow peas leaves) - vegetable sun drying using the indigenous knowledge of the Lango peoples of Uganda - one of the examples of CPAR Uganda’s genuine wealth creation…
FACILITATING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY AND FOOD SECURITY
Cassava is a major staple of the Lango people of Northern Uganda and thus of members of Kony Wa Women’s Farmer Field School (FFS). For years members of the FFS, just like other community members in Alebtong District, had been…
Farmers First
Farmers First was a five-year programme (May 2009 to June 2014) and was designed to improve and diversify the on-farm production of rural farming households in four African countries, including Uganda. At its core was a series of activities designed…
The Karamoja Dilemma
The dilemma is: Why are the Karimojong, who are livestock wealthy, perceived to be unable to ensure their own food and nutrition security and to be in need of external food aid?
Working in Partnership with DanChurchAid (DCA)
"If a man is hungry, don't just give him a fish. Instead give him a fishing rod and teach him the right to own his own fishing rod and free access to fish in the lake." DCA
KARAMOJA LIVELIHOODS PROGRAMME (KALIP)
An analysis of 1,770 kilograms of maize that the participating households planted on a sample of 292 acres of land indicates that they harvested 110,000 kilograms; meaning that they realised a multiplication ratio of over 1:62.
