Empowering female headed farmer families

The project successfully equipped 69 female and 31 male headed small-scale farmer families, the knowledge and the tools to diversify their incomes, achieve independence and thrive economically. A 5-acre demonstration plot and training farm with a tree nursery was set-up showcasing agroforestry techniques (combining fast growing fodder and firewood trees, fruit trees with crops and or domestic animals). Each farmer received a bicycle and was trained on its basic maintenance and repair. A bicycle powered water pump was designed, produced and distributed to farmers who had received a bicycle. Certain farmers, however, requested a rainwater harvesting system instead of the pump. Farmers were educated, trained and assisted in the shift from subsistence farming to agroforestry but also on and on how to adapt to climate change thanks to climate mitigation agricultural techniques. 5,643 trees were planted (39% fruit and food trees and 61% fertilizer and fodder trees) of which 1,100 at the demonstration farm, 2,793 with smallholder farmers and the remaining trees at schools and health centers. A total area of 28.7 acres of agroforestry gardens were created.

Cycling out of Poverty Foundation Uganda (CooP-Uganda) is a Ugandan charity, registered in 2010. It aims to improve the livelihoods of Ugandan families by making bicycles and other mobility aids accessible and available for everyone in Uganda.

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