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Uganda urged to boost local food production
Uganda has been urged to domesticate the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, or CAADP, to tackle food insecurity, boost agricultural investment, and slash its import bill.
The country spends over USD 500 million annually on food imports, mainly wheat and vegetable oils, which experts say could be produced locally.
State Minister for Agriculture Bright Rwamirama insists the government is on the right track, particularly in reducing the vegetable oil import burden.
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Uganda moves to implement Africa agriculture plan
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Uganda's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Cooperation Haruna Kyeyune Kasolo, centre, meets African Union (AU) Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment Moses Vilakati during the second meeting on Day One of the three-day Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) meeting in Kampala on September 10, 2026. PHOTO/COURTESY.
Uganda has hosted a high-level policy dialogue on the domestication and implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Kampala Declaration and the CAADP Strategy and Action Plan 2026–2035.
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ZAWYA: Inside Uganda’s push to rebuild its food system from the soil up
In Kabizi, a village in Jinja district, a single vegetable plot is being watched more closely than most.
Rows of nakati (African eggplant), dodo (Amaranth), sukuma wiki (kale), cabbage and tomatoes are growing under an unusual arrangement: farmers, researchers and a biological-inputs company have agreed to let the plot answer a question that has been building for years. Can Uganda grow vegetables without poisoning its soil, killing pests’ natural predators or putting consumers at risk? Can farmers earn as much as – or more than – they do by spraying?Pests and diseases account for more than 30 per cent of vegetable yield losses nationally. Farmers have tried to chemically treat their way out of the losses, but returns are diminishing even as fertiliser and pesticide bills rise. Getting ahead of those losses cheaply is the economic pitch behind agroecology. Whether it holds up under real market conditions is what the plot in Kabizi has to prove.“We noticed that we need to take technology out from research to the field,” said Dr Joshua Okonya, a programme officer at ASARECA, a regional agricultural research organisation.“Adoption has been low for these technologies. Why? Maybe because we involve fewer farmers.”The living-lab model is designed to close that gap by making farmers co-designers rather than an audience. They will run the plots themselves, tracking pest pressure and crop growth against a conventionally managed comparison plot, while partners check in monthly over the next four to six months.
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