Norec, FK Norway, personnell exchange Ethiopia, Uganda. PELUM Uganda works to improve the livelihood and economic resilience of smallholder farmers in rural communities, primarily by sharing skills and knowledge related to environmentally sustainable and responsive farming practices and techniques. 

PELUM Ethiopia works primarily with and for socio-politically marginalised women farmers to promote food and nutritional security through the use of agro-ecologically based land use management. They have a holistic approach to their work, and are involved at all levels of society from grassroots promotion of sustainable agroecological practises and climate smart natural resources management, through to national level advocacy and research. Their mission is to be ‘a strong voice for the voiceless’ within the area of smallholder farming, as well as a centre of excellence in promoting environmentally sustainable ecological land use management.

Both PELUM partners work directly to address challenges such as climate change, land degradation, low production yields and limited access to appropriate technology, which in turn lead to persistently low agricultural production, food insecurity and environmental degradation.

The proposed project focuses on strengthening practices that will allow smallholder farmers in Uganda and Ethiopia to be more responsive to these challenges, and to thereby enhance the use of climatically and contextually adapted sustainable agricultural methods to enhance food production and concomitant economic and nutritional security. The project encompasses SDG # 2, Zero hunger, SDG #13, Climate action, and SDG #15, Life on land.