Help EACO educate, support and train the farmers to adopt environmental friendly agricultural practices in Uganda

Changing weather and a high population using unsustainable agricultural methods on small fragmented pieces has made land susceptible to natural disasters and as a result of this kind of attitude held by many farmers, the community is now vulnerable to climate change and experienced several climate related hazards such as soil erosion, flooding, landslides, drought and intense dry seasons many of which have happened due to man’s activities which remain the biggest threat to ecosystem. Solution to the challenge. EACO will educate, support and train the farmers to adopt environmental friendly agricultural practices in order to minimize land degradation, additionally; they will also be encouraged to take on practices such as bee-keeping that reduce pressure on land. Working in partnership with the communities, EACO through this project will train the members in modern bee keeping, tree planting and farming friendly practices. They will also be provided with bee hives to help them expand their bee-keeping projects which will work as model farms from which every member of that community and even those out there who are interested in farming can come and learn the best land use practices such as bee keeping, agro forestry contour farming so they can be able to benefit from the Environment without harming it. EACO will also drill boreholes to help women and children have safe and clean water and also women to have more time to concentrate on their income generating activities and children to have more time to attend school. Key anticipated outcomes Strengthened communities’ resilience to the impact of climate change through promoting catchment based integrated, equitable and sustainable management of land and water resources and the establishment of local flood early warning systems, in order to improve resilience to climate change, and increase adaptation capacity while enhancing food security.

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