Projects and Flagship Initiatives in Uganda
Our work in Uganda has led to transformative change at multiple levels. We've empowered farmers and communities with knowledge and tools to make informed decisions.
By incorporating gender-responsive approaches, we've ensured inclusivity and equity in our interventions. The adoption of sustainable practices has not only improved livelihoods but also contributed to long-term food security. Through partnerships with local stakeholders and institutions, we've built a collaborative ecosystem that drives positive change across the entire food system. In Uganda, our impact is evident in healthier diets, increased resilience to climate challenges, empowered farmers, and thriving ecosystems. As we continue our journey, we remain committed to fostering sustainable change and ensuring a brighter future for all Ugandans.
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Bio-efficacy of provitamin A-rich banana to improve vitamin A status among children in Uganda living in an area with a high burden of inflammation |
This study will determine the bio-efficacy of carotenoids in Pro-Vitamin A-rich banana-based diets and their potential in improving the vitamin A body stores by the RID technique among school-going children aged 6-14years in Tororo district living in an area with a high burden of inflammation. |
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DINU-Building Resilience to Enhance Food and Nutrition Security, Income and Health in Northern Uganda |
To enhance food and nutrition security, increase household incomes and improve maternal and child nutrition and health in Northern Uganda by promoting diversified food production of resilient varieties; commercializing agriculture; improving post-harvest handling, food preparation and consumption practices; and encouraging family planning for improved and sustainable livelihoods. The Alliance is responsible for ensuring all project activities are nutrition sensitive. |
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Switzerland Development Cooperation: Seed Systems for Food Security |
Strengthening seed systems for smallholders in Nepal, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Bolivia and Burkina Faso |
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Neglected and Underutilized Species for Climate Change Adaptation |
Access and use of Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) for climate change adaptation in Kenya and Uganda |
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National Seed System Characterization |
National Seed System characterization - key institutional, processes and policy issues. |
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Assessment of agrobiodiversity |
Develop and implement action plans to restore and conserve agrobiodiversity. |
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Using genetic diversity and evolutionary plant breeding for enhanced farmer resilience |
Enhance farmers' resilience to climate change. |
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Novel Approaches to the Improvement of Banana Production in Eastern Africa - the application of biotechnological methodologies |
To build human and infrastructural capacity for the development and deployment of biotechnological tools and products critical for the transformation of Uganda’s agricultural economy. |
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Systematic, supply chain-structured genotyping of maize seed quality: A baseline for strategic & evidence-based upgrading of the Ugandan seed system |
Assess seed quality and resilience to genetic leakages along the seed supply chain. |
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Accelerated varietal improvement and seed delivery of legumes and cereals in Africa |
Modernize breeding programs and seed systems and align them to end-users demands and preferences for high genetic gains and accelerated varietal turnover. |
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Diversity for Resilient Agroforestry Banana plantations in East Africa |
Strengthening local livelihoods in terms of food and income security, well-being (reducing the use of biocidal chemical compounds in banana cultivation) and promoting biodiversity. |
CGIAR's Roots, Tubers & Bananas Research Program in East Africa. ©Alliance/NeilPalmer
2. Bean plant assessments in Kisolo, SW Uganda.
©Alliance/NeilPalmer
A pineapple farm in the Ntungamo district of Uganda. ©Alliance/NeilPalmer
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Rapid breeding for reduced cooking time and enhanced nutritional quality in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) |
Deliver new genotypes of common bean with shorter cooking time, higher Iron (Fe) and higher Zinc (Zn) content than current varieties, and to train African plant breeders in a new rapid method of plant breeding based on optimal mating designs. |
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Accelerated Breeding Initiative |
Deliver increased genetic gains of preferred varieties through modernized breeding. |
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Plant Health Initiative |
PHI aims to protect agriculture-based economies of low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America from devastating pest incursions and disease outbreaks, by leveraging and building viable networks across an array of national, regional and global institutions. Developing sentinel plots to track evolution of the pathogens causing anthracnose and angular leaf spot in common beans.
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More fruit diversity for food security: conservation of local agricultural diversity and increasing the adoption of newly introduced climate smart bananas for different agro-ecozones in the African Great Lakes Region |
Increase fruit diversity through:
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Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability |
Assessing cross-food value chain and market services functioning to increase employment and boost income of smallholders and small and medium size enterprises (SMEs), including women and youth. |
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Ukama Ustawi (UU) Work Package One (WP1), under Regional Integrated Initiative (RII) Linkages and Synergies with Global Initiatives. |
Supporting pulse value chains to diversify and intensify maize-mixed systems, through optimized seed systems, promoting improved management, delivering digital advisory services, providing farmer financing solutions, supporting market linkages, enhancing nutrition-security, and fostering gender equity & inclusion. |
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Beans for Women: Enhanced rights, equity, and economic opportunities for women and youth smallholder farmers in bean value chains in the East of DRC. |
For the benefit of two million people, 60% of whom will be women and girls, in poor rural communities in three provinces of Eastern DRC, and will indirectly benefit ten million people over the longer term. |
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BRAINS project. |
Building gender-equitable resilience for adaptation to climate change across bean crop and insect corridors to improve food and nutrition security in sub-Saharan Africa (BRAINS). |
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Integrated Project for Agricultural Growth in the Great Lakes (PICAGL). |
Introduce bio-fortified bean and maize varieties, produce and distribute varieties of bio-enriched beans and maize and organize nutrition education and promotional activities. |
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Sustainable School Feeding Innovations in Kigali. |
Promotion of high iron beans and orange fleshed sweet potatoes in Rwanda by the bean and potato programs collaborating with the Rwanda national research system. |
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Improving incomes and nutrition security through development and commercialization of consumer preferred processed legume-based products in Malawi and Zambia |
Increase access to evidence-based information on consumer preferences and demand for processed legume-based products and Increase access to consumer acceptable, nutritionally enhanced and safe optimized legume-based products. |
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The Coffee Farmer Income Resilience Program (CFIRP) led by IDH |
Improving coffee farmer income resilience through integration of regenerative agriculture and blended services to diversified farming systems. |