Empowering Smallholder Farming Communities: Gordon’s Agricultural Organisation-Uganda Sets a Path to Maximise Potential
Africa’s agricultural sector is distinguished by its rich and diverse adaptive traditional techniques that have been essential for food security over the decades. However, in northern Uganda, agricultural practices have encountered systemic inefficiencies that have particularly impacted smallholder farmers, including women, youth, and persons with disabilities (PWDs), leaving them vulnerable to poverty and food insecurity. These farmers are grappling with limited access to affordable, quality inputs such as climate-smart seeds, fertilizers, agrochemicals and industrial tools. The scarcity of effective advisory services has compelled farmers to rely on outdated and unsustainable farming practices, exacerbated by an inadequate advisory ratio of one […]