Board of Directors
Senkosi Kenneth,Ssenyonga Peter,Loga Dorcas,Kiiza Charles,Kutegeka Grace,Majaliwa Gilbert,Ssebuliba Esther
Mission
FOSAA's Mission statement: Enhancing agricultural sustainability through capacity building, innovation, research and development initiatives.
The mission for FOSAA is the pursuit of the following principles:
Commitment: transparently FOSAA is committed to inspire pro-social agricultural management, strong interpersonal skills, and to instill a great sense of hope in the future of the agricultural sector with strong emphasis on mindset change;
Responsibility: The focus of FOSAA is to empower farmers in establishing goals and managing decisions that enhance their welfare;
Diversification: FOSAA wants to expand the perspectives of farmers to make them aware of farming possibilities; and
Support: An individual is dramatically influenced by their support system. FOSAA wants to surround farmers with a sustainable mentoring learning environment.
Programs
FOSAA offers farmers that have already been identified as at-risk, an opportunity to work with agri-business incubators/ mentors to improve their ability to a positive attitude towards their farm future. The long-term goal of FOSAA is to empower farmers to break the unsustainable agricultural habits. FOSAA operates the following programmes in line with Millennium Development Goal one (eradicating extreme hunger and poverty) and seven (ensuring environmental sustainability):
Agribusiness Incubation and Mentorship: This is the core programme where at-risk farmers are matched with trained mentors through a structured programme of support and agribusiness innovation/technology incubation using the Farmer Field School Methodology/ and or Participatory/Experiential (vertical and horizontal) learning/ doing. Innovations/technologies for incubation include: improved seed, improved storage or shelf-life enhancement facilities, modern hives and harvesting technologies, soil fertility management packages and value addition facilities. Farmers and their mentors participate in farm visits (for inspiration and mindset change) followed by a two weeks structured programme that covers: farm enterprise selection, resource mobilisation and utilisation, market assessment and business negotiation skills, record keeping and financial management, risk assessment and management, value addition, carbon foot-printing and team building. The programme ends with a graduation (offering of start-up capital) but the incubatees and the incubator remain in close contact for the next five years but backstopping continues in perpetuity.
M.Sc. and Ph.D. research scholarship Fund. This is geared towards improving the sector's human resources capital and the capacity for innovative adaptive agricultural management through applied research (integrating both indigenous and technical knowledge). This will cover all vital areas of the agricultural discipline (agronomy, soils sciences, agribusiness management and economics, animal sciences, biotechnology, pathology, integrated watershed management and agricultural extension management).
Water for Production Development Fund: In order to help reduce on the regions heavy reliance on rain agriculture, FOSAA is committed to forming partnerships with development partners to help build water points especially in dry farming communities for purposes of providing water for production as well as home use.
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