LUCOF UGANDA works with communities towards enabling sustainable agriculture production and ensuring that everyone receives sufficient nutritious food – for the long-term. We provide training in nutrition and in sustainable, organic methods of farming, develop community mentors and provide seeds, tools and technical support at the outset.

Our training and support programmes cover a wide spectrum of farming and nutrition issues.

The direct training and long-term approach promotes the cost-effective sharing of skills with thousands of other households who benefit from improved livelihoods through peer learning.

What LUCOF is doing

We provide education in the production of high-value nutritious crops, protein supplementation, water saving and improved agriculture techniques. We also support households and the larger community in developing skills and knowledge to improve their nutrition through the establishment of individual and community/group organic kitchen gardens using water saving and improved agricultural techniques to produce a variety of both indigenous and exotic crops.

We develop knowledge in cereal banking with the aim of helping groups maximise the production and storage of nutritional supplements to safeguard against drought seasons and exploitation by middlemen.

We train and develop individuals and community groups in animal husbandry (including piggery, poultry; goats; rabbits), to ensure adequate protein supplementation for community households.

Our start-up packages provide seeds, tools and livestock for small farms – poultry and goats, etc.

By training people in the effective use of stove liners to reduce firewood collection, optimised fuel consumption and improved hygiene and safety in kitchens, we are making a significant contribution to the enhanced health and well-being of all community members

Market research seed loan support farmers’ workshops on improved farming practices

We sensitise farmers in sustainable environmental management practices, as well as environmental friendly agriculture; such as agro-forestry, organic fertilizers, proper waste management, wetland protection, soil protection, mulching, cover-cropping, inter-cropping, growing of legumes, bush fallowing, crop rotation, and resting the land.

Integrated smart agriculture practices to increase food security and reduce poverty

Since the beginning of 2021, LUCOF together with the local leadership and volunteers have been making a survey and area study on how to assist the local wimen and youth farmers in the villages of Kireba, Bububi, Kamwano, Kyetume, Wabitungulu, Wakatayi, Kamwano, Janda and Namakofu. The target group are women with HIV/AIDS and youth who are orphans to parents who died of HIV/AIDS. These farmers have been struggling with unpredictable weather patterns with low rainfall and long droughts. This project to integrate farming methods that will improve productivity for food security as well as increased incomes, which will in the end have direct impact on more than 4,000 people and the communities will benefit too.