Self Help Africa is implementing two rural development programmes in Uganda - at Kayunga and Kumi-Bukedea. SHA completed its work in Amuria in the north, in late 2010.
The focus of activities in each of these two areas is on improving food production and farming systems for rural communities.
This is being achieved by supporting the establishment of community based seed multiplication systems, by providing training and support to community based farm extension agents and farmer groups, by improving access to farm inputs, and promoting the development of improved breed livestock.
Support is also being provided for the establishment of farmers associations, of community based savings and credit co-operatives ad of other community based bodies. |
Uganda has gone through long periods of civil war and instability that caused extensive disruption to the country's entire farming system, leaving the majority of the population to rely in subsistence agriculture for ther survival.
Latest figures available from the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development show that 8.4 million people - 27% of the population, live in extreme poverty, and most of these are in rural areas. Although national poverty levels have fallen from 31% five years ago, this change reflects in large part improvements in living conditions and job opportunities for the country's urban populations.
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