This project aims to enhance food security in Uganda, aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1 and 2, focusing on "No Poverty" and "Zero Hunger." The key objectives include digitizing and commercializing smallholder farmers, improving their market access, ensuring product quality through traceability, and boosting household incomes. The approach involves the development of a user-friendly mobile application and web platform, eSusFarm®, which enables farmers to input, access, and share crucial agricultural data.
This abstract highlights the transformative journey of Lakshmi Devi, a farmer-turned-entrepreneur in Nandgaon, Uttarakhand, facilitated by the Mount Valley Development Association (MVDA). It emphasizes the impact of MVDA’s Farming Innovation for Women Empowerment (FIWE) project in rural development.
Through qualitative analysis, the narrative demonstrates how MVDA’s initiatives, such as women's groups, skill development, and access to government schemes like ATMA, empowered Lakshmi Devi, enabling her transition from a landless farmer to a successful entrepreneur.
As urbanization progresses, accessing nutritious and healthy foods has become challenging for households and communities due to the complex nature of food systems and poverty. The Urban Food Hives Initiative (UFH) in Uganda aims to build resilient, nutritious, equitable, and regenerative food systems in Kampala, with a focus on the voices and leadership of women and youth. Currently, most small-scale, informal actors in Ugandan food systems, including farmers, informal vendors and distributors, do not receive fair economic returns.
Climate resilience and agrobiodiversity management - concepts and tools for FFS Presented by Hilton Mbozi, Oxfam Novib for the Global FFS Platform Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School-Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
Farmer Field and Business School (FFBS) “an innovative curriculum responding to climate change” presented by Shashank Bibhu - CARE for the Global FFS Platform Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School - Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS.
What Do Farmers Need to Know About Climate Change to Take Action? Climate change impacts, adaptation and mitigation presented by Brent M. Simpson, FAO consultant, for the Global FFS Platform Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School-Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
OVERVIEW ON CLIMATE CHANGE presented by W. Pieter Pauw, Eindhoven University of Technology for the Global Farmer Field School Platform Webinar Series on Climate Change - Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
Learning from farmers: case study on Senegal presented by Stefano Mondovi, FAO Innovation Officer, for the Global FFS Platform Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School - Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
Learning modules and exercises for farmer communities presented by Dada C. MORALES‐ABUBAKAR, FAO, for the Webinar series on Climate Change and Farmer Field School - Session 2: Equipping farmers for climate action: key concepts and tools for FFS
This is a collection of documents—including presentations and recordings—related to the Boosting Agrifood Research and Innovation Cooperation for Impact at Scale conference, which took place from 11 to 13 March 2025 in Brussels as part of the DeSIRA-LIFT service of DeSIRA, EU's initiative for climate-relevant, productive, and sustainable transformation of agri-food systems in the global South.