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Agroforestry4Future

Training young people in Agroforestry. Enabling economic livelihoods. Active nature and climate protection.

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Dear Donors, we kindly ask you to support an effective self-help project in Africa.

In Uganda, one of the world’s poorest countries, we have launched a promising agroforestry training project, Agroforestry4Future, in partnership with a local institute in Luweero District. Over the course of three years, young people will be trained and mentored by a team of experts to work with communities in 15 villages to implement this regenerative and highly productive agricultural system. They will also teach it in 36 schools, with a practical focus on creating their own agroforestry school gardens.

In Uganda, 16 million people live in extreme poverty, surviving on less than two dollars a day. Rapid population growth, refugee flows from South Sudan and Somalia, monoculture farming, severe deforestation and soil erosion are exacerbating food shortages.

Agriculture is increasingly facing serious challenges:

  • Soil fertility and biodiversity are threatened by land use, population growth and climate change.
  • Changing and unpredictable weather patterns significantly reduce the productivity of monoculture farms.
  • Deforestation for monocultures, road construction and firewood, and inadequate reforestation and young tree planting.
  • Most farmers lack basic primary education.
  • Farmers are unaware of sustainable and efficient food production practices.
  • There are few training opportunities and functioning farms to serve as examples of productive agriculture.
  • Monoculture requires extensive use of pesticides and mineral fertilizers.
  • Due to the lack of jobs and prospects, many young people leave their homes and migrate to the cities.
  • Children often have to work in the fields, which prevents them from attending school regularly.
  • School meals are scarce and lack variety, often limited to corn or plantain porridge.
  • There is little awareness of the health benefits of a balanced diet.

Our Agroforestry4Future project addresses these issues.

Examples of specific donations

20 kg of seeds (beans and maize) – CHF 40.-
40 young fruit and timber trees – CHF 80.-
2,000 cocoyam seedlings – CHF 100.-
Plants and tree material for a 500 m² school garden, including transport – CHF 300.-

  • Thank you for your support.
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    CH07 0900 0000 6195 8393 1
    SWIFT: POFICHBEXXX
    Postfinance CH- 3030 Bern