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From Four Days of Backbreaking Labor to One Hour: A Locally Fabricated Soybean Thresher is transforming postharvest work in Jimma
For years, Mr. Sheh Gali and his neighbors spent four days manually threshing just a quarter hectare of soybeans. That changed in late December 2025 with the launch of Ethiopia’s first locally fabricated soybean thresher. Developed by SAA and The Nippon Foundation with Aybar Engineering PLC, this innovation reduces days of work to just one hour. For Mr. Sheh Gali, the result is clear: "The quality speaks for itself."
【Farmers' story】Women Leading Agricultural Innovation in Ethiopia: Meryema Aba Sura’s Soybean Success Story
Ms. Meryema Aba Sura is a 45-year-old widow and mother of four living in Decha Nedhi Kebele, Nedhi Gibe District, Jimma Zone, Oromia Region.
【Farmers' story】Solar-Powered Success: How a Ugandan Farmer Turned a Small Loan into a Climate-Resilient Legacy
For years, Mulwani Moses farmed not to grow, but simply to survive. A 35-year-old father of three from Kibuku District, Moses depended entirely on rain-fed farming on five acres inherited from his late father. Each season brought the same uncertainty late rains, dry spells, declining soil fertility, and unstable yields. Despite his hard work, income remained unpredictable, and every shock pushed his family closer to vulnerability.
【Farmers’ story】Boosting Rice Incomes in Uganda: How a Japan-Funded One-Stop Centre is Transforming the Value Chain in Otuke
In northern Uganda’s Otuke District, rice and cereal farming underpin rural livelihoods. Yet for years, farmers faced a fundamental constraint: the absence of local processing and organized market infrastructure. For a farmer-owned cooperative, the Otuke Town Council Farmers’ Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Ltd, the main bottleneck was not production. With 1,000 members, including 490 women, the organization found that its growth was constrained by what happened after the harvest.
【Farmers' story】Regenerative Agriculture in Uganda: How Soil Restoration Increased Income and Climate Resilience for a Smallholder Farmer
For years, 43-year-old Lutankome Ronald farmed the way his parents and grandparents had taught him. On 2 ha (5 acres) of inherited land in Lusana Village, Kiboga District, he grew bananas and coffee using traditional practices passed down through generations.
【Activity】Solar Irrigation and Water Access in Karamoja, Uganda: SAA’s Integrated Finance Model Strengthens Climate Resilience
In Uganda’s Karamoja region, climate change is not an abstract risk it directly shapes daily survival. Prolonged dry spells, erratic rainfall, and rising temperatures continue to strain water availability for household use, livestock, and crop production, undermining food security and livelihoods. While irrigation is widely recognized as part of the solution to climate variability, experience in Karamoja shows that adoption is constrained less by farmer interest or technology availability, and m...
【Farmers' story】From Savings to Seed Shops: Empowering Women to Lead Last-Mile Agribusiness in Northern Uganda
Across the drylands of Karamoja, agricultural livelihoods are shaped by distances to markets, climate stress, and limited access to basic services. For women farmers in particular, unreliable input supply systems have long constrained productivity, food security, and income diversification.
【Farmers' story】Power of the Last-Mile: How Youth-Led Agribusiness Services are Boosting Incomes in Rural Uganda
For many rural youths, hard work alone does not guarantee progress. Without access to capital, skills, and productive assets, even the most determined efforts often fail to break the hand-to-mouth cycle, leaving them struggling to survive rather than finding a path to growth.
【Farmers' story】From Classroom to Farm: How Youth Business Clinics are Empowering Young Agripreneurs in Uganda
Kyambadde Francis (28) is a young agripreneur from Mubende District who was initially trained as a primary school teacher, Francis grew up in a farming community and always had a strong interest in agriculture. However, limited access to land and capital prevented him from engaging in farming beyond subsistence. Like many rural youth, he faced the difficult choice of remaining in low-paying employment or venturing into agribusiness without the skills, networks, or resources to succeed.
【Farmers' story】Combating Child Malnutrition in Uganda: How Nutrition Model Homes Are Transforming Communities in Kole District
Across rural Uganda, undernutrition remains a persistent challenge driven not only by food insecurity, but also by limited dietary diversity, poor hygiene practices, and deeply rooted beliefs that shape how illness is understood and addressed.
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