UNITED STATES LAUNCHES NEW PROJECT TO SUPPORT SMALLHOLDER WOMEN FARMERS IN UGANDA
LEAD INSTITUTION: Makerere University
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHUSS), Makerere University
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The United States, through the Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program, has launched a new research project that will build evidence on what works to strengthen the empowerment and resilience of smallholder women farmers in Uganda.
The three-year, $450,000 project, led by Makerere University, will test ways to transform and improve smallholder women farmer’s resilience to agricultural shocks and enhance their economic empowerment. The project will focus on stress-tolerant seeds and fertilizer, training on climate-smart agriculture, business skills, and low-cost crop insurance. The project will be implemented in the Isingiro and Alebtong districts in Uganda, where rural families can benefit from opportunities to improve their crop yields, incomes, nutrition and resilience to agricultural shocks.
Dr Florence Kyoheirwe Muhanguzi, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the College of Humanties and Social Sciences is the Principal Investigator on the project.
The project supports United States efforts in Uganda to achieve a well-nourished population, understand key drivers of vulnerability, increase households’ capacity to manage risk, and diversify community and household assets. Feed the Future ALL-IN was established by USAID as a partnership between ICED, with offices in Nairobi, Kenya and Accra, Ghana, and the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience (MRR) based at the University of California, Davis.
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