Sustaining the Future of Agriculture in Kanungu (SUFAK) is an inclusive Youth led project to empower a total of 1500 people in 50 rural villages of Kanungu (through conservation Agriculture and ensuring climate justice. The project is worth supporting because incorporating trees into crop farming offers sustainability benefits such as promoting food sufficiency, poverty reduction and also increase the resilience of the farm enterprise to climate change through greater drought resilience.
The continuing decline in the vegetation cover of Uganda, Kanungu in particular is attributed to little farmer knowledge of Conservation, improved agricultural practices, insufficient agricultural and conservation research that takes into account the needs and resource constraints of farmers. This has resulted into high temperatures, Low agriculture productivity as exhibited in the declining level of output per acreage, yet the sector is the largest employer in Uganda.
The project will solve the problem by addressing the conservation social, economic and material needs of local communities and work with them to realize environmental benefits such as increased agricultural productivity. This will be achieved through formation of Tree Academy Groups at grassroots level under the Village Savings and Loan Association model, capacity building and involving members in resource identification such as land for agroforestry thus promoting community led conservation.
Existence of well empowered sustainable community led groups of people championing environmental conservation and poverty alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture. Farmers are the majority stewards of environmental quality. To enhance their livelihoods and ensure the future of agriculture, we must provide farmers and industry with better tools, Better data about what works and what doesn't, better solutions for environmental degradation and better approaches for climate change mitigation.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
