A Working Future Project
The project connects young farmers to market actors and strengthens farmer institutions around green chili, hot pepper, groundnuts, and white-skinned sweet potatoes.
To improve linkage between production and market demands in the agriculture sector in Eastern Uganda.
Improving linkages between youth farmers, value-chain actors, production volumes, produce quality, and market demand in Eastern Uganda.
A Working Future Project supports youth farmers in Eastern Uganda to participate more strongly in agricultural value chains by improving production, quality, market linkages, and access to investment capital.
- Increase linkage between youth and other actors along the value chains of green chili, hot pepper, groundnuts, and white-skinned sweet potatoes.
- Increase quality and volumes in the value chains.
- Increase farmers' access to investment capital.
- Form and strengthen farmer institutions.
12,000 youth farmers
Kamuli and Buyende
Strengthening youth participation in priority crop value chains, market linkages, farmer institutions, produce quality, production volumes, and access to investment capital.
Plan International Norway, VEDCO, KK Foods
- Youth farmers linked to agricultural value-chain actors
- Quality and volumes improved across priority value chains
- Farmer institutions formed and strengthened