Monthly Archives: December 2024

In Fort Portal City, Western Uganda, the urban areas are experiencing a rise in food insecurity. Low-income urban consumers may lack the ability to store food and may struggle to afford fuel for cooking. Typically, they buy food every day from informal traders and street vendors. Traditional foods that require more time to prepare are losing out to ‘faster’ foods. An earlier study by KRC- Uganda in Fort Portal City also showed that food choices are undergoing constant change (relevant for indigenous food to new varieties and highly processed foods). The study aimed at identifying the bottlenecks in the Fort Portal Food system and detecting possible ways to trigger stakeholders […]

IDP together with KRC-Uganda, and RCA have been supporting farmers in promoting Agroecologicalpractices to enhance their food security and nutrition as one of the ways to promote the productionand consumption of healthy food. However, there is no data that indicates the contribution of theseagroecological farming practices to household food security and nutrition outcomes. KRC- Ugandaworked with IDP and Mountains of the Moon University to conduct a study on the contribution ofAgroecological farming practices to nutrition and food security outcomes among households inKarangura sub-county, Kabarole district. The purpose of this study was to assess the contribution of Agroecological farming systems onhousehold food security and nutrition status in Kabarole district. Specifically, the […]