Livelihoods & Food Security
Innovations in Dry Season Horticulture for Women and Smallholders in Uganda
Helping women and smallholder farmers grow more, and sell more, right through the dry season.
This programme works with women smallholder farmers to raise household incomes and improve nutrition. We use farmer-to-farmer extension — training farmers who then train their neighbours — so knowledge stays in the community after we leave.
Working with the Horticulture Innovation Lab, we introduced dry-season vegetable production using low-cost irrigation. Farmers who previously grew only one rain-fed crop a year can now harvest through the lean months, when prices are highest.
What this programme does
- Farmer-to-farmer extension
- Dry-season horticulture
- Low-cost irrigation and water management
- Post-harvest handling and value addition
- Market access for women farmers
Where we run this programme
- Soroti
- Serere
- Bukedea
- Busia
- Mbale
- Kween
- Jinja