Enhancing long-term environmental sustainability and resilience of food production systems in Central Uganda.

The concept of food and nutritional security refers to the ability of all people at all times to have physical and income access for sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs for an active healthy life. It requires food be available, enough, stable and accessible without which inevitably leads to malnourishment that hinders individual performance.

Food and nutrition insecurity is as a result of farmer’s lack of knowledge on effective agricultural techniques and ability to meet costs of necessary seeds and equipment because of their limited income among other reasons. The effects exhibit themselves in hunger which is the extreme expression of poverty, due to small scale farmers’ inability to produce enough food for their own consumption and to sustain their communities.

For that reason, any enhancement of the food security calls for farmers’ sensitization and encouragement to adopt strategic methods that will not only cater for food and nutritional security but also income at household level and sound management of the environment.

The Organization’s commitment to making Central Uganda a role model in embracing sustainable farming practices in order to improve livelihoods and alleviate poverty serves as the motivation to initiating participatory practices in promoting sustainable development initiatives among the resource poor rural community members.

Therefore, Biggi Family Project takes up the challenge of generating awareness on the dangers of conventional agriculture, training on organic farming as an alternative method and follow ups to ensure proper implementation and sharing information for sustainability.

The target beneficiaries are the small scale holders who face a multitude of constraints along the value chain which limit their ability to increase production and productivity and access markets for their produce. Some are broader development challenges while others occur at farm level, such as the prohibitive cost of agricultural production, and the escalating land degradation through contamination by toxic inputs and loss of fertility through erosion. The Project therefore, is aimed at enhancing food security and farmers’ participation in environmental conservation for sustainable production during our lifetime and for the future generations.