April 27, 2024

 

Innovative Volunteerism Initiatives

This intervention aimed to enhance coherent cross-sectorial actions towards informing coherent policy implementation pathways for food and livelihood security and buttress the realization of different Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Accordingly,
The fuel briquettes manual aims to equip young people and the informal sector in general with knowledge of fuel briquettes making from waste and their marketing. This manual has been…
One of the key aspects of the EBAFOSA Innovative Volunteerism work is to clearly showcase impact being undertaken and felt at scale. This is not something that can happen overnight…
Studies show that in the past 30 years, only about 5% of investments in agricultural research and education has been directed towards preventing postharvest losses (PHLs) in Africa.
Uganda’s largest employer is the agriculture sector, which provides livelihoods for up to 70% of the country’s working population. The sector contributes up to 22% of GDP and 34% of…
COVID-19 has become an unprecedented and unpredictable global crisis. On 21st March 2020, Uganda reported its first COVID-19 case and this triggered its first lockdown. According to Daily Monitor on…
Women constitute approximately 50 percent of the agricultural work force in Sub-Saharan Africa, yet they manage plots that are 20 to 30 percent less productive on average. The country-specific extent…
Globally more than 2.6 billion people still lack access to clean cooking, and household air pollution, primarily from cooking smoke, is responsible for roughly 2.5 million premature deaths each year1.…
Solar drying is one of the most efficient, and cost-effective, renewable, and sustainable technologies to conserve agricultural products in sub-Saharan African countries including Uganda. Read more from the report below
This manual is intended for use in upscaling application of Ecosystems Based Adaptation (EBA) in a market driven approach in Uganda and many other African countries. As such, four fundamental…
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall strategy to help people to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change (Seddon…
Solar dryer technology can be utilized in small-scale food processing industries for producing hygienic, high-quality food products. Solar dryers use solar radiation to heat air that is used to remove…
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