Crop-livestock-tree integration in Uganda: The case of Mukono-Wakiso innovation platform

Abstract

In the Lake Victoria Crescent Zone of central Uganda, farmers have over recent years been struggling with increasing poverty and malnutrition, due largely to low agricultural yields. In 2013, the CGIAR research programme Humidtropics initiated Innovation Platforms (IPs) in Uganda to join the farmers in their fight. Many organizations were involved in this work and they faced many pitfalls. Platform actors were dropping off along the way, some of the international research organizations involved gave the platform too little attention, and organizations tended to invest only in their preferred crops and commodities. A series of research for development (R4D) activities were initiated in response to the platform needs. These included situation analysis, baseline survey, market survey and agro-biodiversity survey. The Mukono-Wakiso platform worked through different institutions to answer farmers needs. Through its engagements the platform identified vegetables as the starting point and this resulted in the lobbying for the coming of the AVRDC-to Uganda.

Published in

Title: Innovation Platforms for Agricultural Development : Evaluating the mature innovation platforms landscape
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.

SLU Authors

• Sartas, Murat

  • Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    
  • Wageningen University

UKÄ Subject classification

Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Business Administration

Publication identifier

• ISBN: 978-1-138-18171-7
• eISBN: 978-1-315-64681-7

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/132048