When interviews facilitated by past Capstone teams illuminated former child soldiers’ need and want for a capacity building initiative centered on enhancing their agricultural proficiency, GLI launched the Sustainable Farming Collaborative/Model Farm initiative in Spring 2018 with a cohort of 60 villagers.
Overview
Working in partnership with Development in Gardening (DIG) and Children of Peace Uganda (CPU), the Sustainable Farming Collaborative-Model Farm Initiative aims to impart villagers with the agricultural know-how that allows them to cultivate and manage cash crops (i.e., sorghum).
The farmer training is to be facilitated over the course of 18 months and entails several modules ranging from soil fertility and pest management to the development of an action plan outlining what will be planted per season.
