Voice of smallholders farmers: Achievements and
success factors for smallholders farmers
World Vision International Experience in
Uganda
Improving and promoting smallholders farmers
Presenter: Dr. Sisay Sinamo, Nutrition Advisor, WVI
EARO
Kampala, Uganda
November 29, 2015
Background
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World Vision aims to achieve sustained well-being of children within families and
communities, especially the most vulnerable children
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World Vision work with communities, governments and partners in 26 countries
through its three regional offices:
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East Africa (9 countries): Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South
Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda
Southern Africa (10 countries): Angola, DRC, CAR, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe
West Africa (7 countries): Chad, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sierra
Leone,
WV approach for food and nutrition security is multi year integrated area
development program
World Vision Reach and Funding in Africa
- World Vision is serving over 18 million children and their families across Africa
through 600 long term projects and 151 short term programs on
• Health and Nutrition
These are the sectors where WV promote
• Resilience and Livelihood
indigenous foods
• Education
• Water supply and sanitation
• Humanitarian emergency
• Cross cutting themes
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Out of the total global income of US$2.7 billion in 2013, World Vision
International has funded projects with over US$1.06 billion is in Africa
Nutrition Framework & Interventions
Improving quality of food
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World Vision Uganda implements USAID
funded biofortification project called
Developing and Delivering Bio-fortified
Crops in Uganda (DDBC) in partnership
with Harvest Plus.
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The project aims to reduce micronutrient
malnutrition and improve dietary intakes of
vitamin A and Iron among women and
children
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The project focuses on increasing
production and consumption of Orange
Fleshed Sweet Potato (for Vitamin A) and
high iron bean.
Improving quality of food
The major achievements so far were:
1. Established a capacity in biofortification
programming
2. Developed package of interventions
3. Built the capacity of farmers, especially women,
to sustain access to planting materials and
seeds even in extended drought periods
4. Created a strong farmers to farmers mentorship
strategy that allows rapid knowledge transfer
and innovations
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The four critical success factors for the project
were: demand creation, seed systems, and
market and product development and strong
follow up, monitoring and reporting. OSFP and
beans are among the staple foods in the project
area.
Package of Interventions
1. Value and demand creation for the importance of the crops
2. Farmers training on agronomic techniques followed by planting materials provision
3. Training of community resource persons
4. Farmers active participation in crops field testing
5. Implementation of payback system
6. Feeding practice promotion
7. Establishment of community seed systems
8. Strong follow up, monitoring and reporting
9. Market linkage and product development
10. Phased and Progressive Scale up (One Season One Village)
Active engagement in the district and sub-county nutrition coordination committee
and review meetings
Smallholder Farmers
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The aims to reach 105,000 smallholder farmers/households (35,000 directly and
70,000 indirectly through payback) in four districts where World Vision Uganda is
operating the project.
Omondi’s Homestead 2012
I was once a very poor man who could not finish
6th grade and living with my mother without a job
Omondi’s garden
Started producing OSFP in 2012 with a loan of 120 vines from his
mother
(Ms Adokorach Angela) who benefited from World Vision program.
I expanded from few plots to 1.2 ha of sweet potato farm
and now to 4.5 hectare.
Omondi’s Green house
Multiplication of vines at home
Varieties of Vines /cultivars (from Harvest plus) for Scaled up
by World vision Farmer groups
He produces six varieties Kakamega, Vita, Kabode, Naspot12, Naspot13, and
Ejumula varieties.
800 bags in one year.
Orange Flesh Sweet potatoes
Peter Omondi and his folks formed an
association
With farmers in my village we established the association in 2014 and also
wrote our constitution;
I built a house which I have named OSFP house
I has been able to formalize Marriage with my wife, a lady I had spent 20
Perpetua’s Story
Garden of Perpetua
Reality of dietary diversity in rural
low income households
Adult
meals
We have been able to incorporate the Vitamin A sweet potatoes and High
Iron beans that has enhanced the health of my children
Perpetua feeding children
We have been able to incorporate the Vitamin A sweet potatoes and
High Iron beans that has enhanced the health of my children
Women Groups Participate in
preparing food for young Children
We make several products as chapati
and mandazi which we sell; we do this
as a group and save its money
Nutritious snack(Chapati) from Potato flour
and vegetable oils
Thank You!!