Sight Dairy farm
Type: Private farm
Involved in integrated dairy production, keeping cattle and growing bananas and maize among other food crops
Location: Namulonge, Kampala Uganda
Access to sufficient quality animal feeds: The farm has a large piece of land to facilitate planting of folders. However, the farm does not have sufficient quality pastures and these are not commensurate with the number of animals available at the farm.
Low milk production: The farm boasts of having good breeds of animals, but milk production remains low. The factors responsible for this low production are not yet well articulated but range from poor animal nutrition, and other animal management practices.
Tick resistance: The farm reports increased resistance of ticks to available acaricides on the market. This might also mean failure to use the acaricides well by farm workers. In the end the farm reports a number of tick borne diseases which affects productivity and profitability.
Edward Kalemba Smallholder farm
Type: Private farm
Peri Urban farming, Zero grazing at the backyard and using animal wastes to produce biogas for inhouse usage.
Location: Kasangati, Kampala Uganda
Access to sufficient quality animal feeds: The dairy farm is on a small piece of land and practices zero grazing. As a result of increased production, the number of animals on the farm are increasing and the farm has no capacity to plant pastures in an urban setting with limited space. Thus the farm faces challenges of access to sufficient quality feeds.
Waste management: The farm is planned on a small piece of land and initially the farm planned to utilize the animal wastes in the production of biogas. However, the farm has increased production and the increasing animal wastes cannot be accommodated in the existing small biogas digester. The excess wastes are now released into the neighborhood which create a public health challenge due to poor hygiene.
Makerere University, Department of Livestock and Industrial Resources
Type: University
Location: Kampala, Uganda
Availability and untimely release of practical resources: In order to facilitate practical training away from the university, resources to facilitate the training are supposed to be provided on time to facilitate planning. However, in most cases resources are not available at all or are not timely and this leads to missing some practical components or doing them late and thus affecting the learning process.
Accessibility to farm: This requires the availability of a good transport system with vehicles that are in good conditions. However, this is a challenge as in most cases vehicles might be readily available to transport students to the field.
Motivation of trainers to speed time on the farms with students: As practical sessions that are conducted off campus tend to take longer hours, staff members have limited motivation to supervisors and attend to them. The distance to some of the practical sites might deter supervisors as in most cases the training might span outside of the normal working hours.
Abatsyaba Apiary group
Type: Banana farming group
Beekeeping and Commercial banana plantations
Location: Nyakasa in Nyakayojo Division, Mbarara City North
Honey production has tremendously reduced due to reduced foraging (pollination) materials/plants for bees. Phenology and flowering of the plants used by the bees is no longer predictable and at worse some of the plants that the bees used to forage on are no longer available (affected by climate change impacts). Use of pesticides and fertilizers by farmers has also caused a reduction in bees and thus affected the pollinations of the plants and therefore most beehives remain uncolonised by bees leading to less honey production by the group. The honey production over years has been reducing.
The other possible challenge is the banana production by the same stakeholders. Due to climate change, the rainfed type of agriculture that is practiced by the group, has been severely affected by the change in rain seasons, droughts and also floods that have affected the banana production capacity of the group. The banana harvests/productions have tremendously reduced due to changes in rain seasons, unpredictable seasons and other severe weather effects (floods, and droughts).
Dunga Beach Management Unit
Type: /
Co-management institution between Government and Local Communities
Location: Dunga Beach, Kisumu
- Hyacinth infestation which has had negative impact on the fisherfolk from using their small wooden boats in using the lang beaches and using fishing nets closer to the lakeshore. The fishermen have to go deep into the lake and it is estimated that about 6,000 lives are lost per year.
- The rising temperatures of the lake water due to global warming have led to change in the lake environment leading to mass death of fish in the last couple of months.
- There is rising energy cost for women who process fish. They rely on bio-fuels (firewood, charcoal) which as currently constituted is not sustainable
- Pollution and destruction of the ecology from the different users within the beach area.
- The dynamics of land management in the Beach Management Units as it impacts the fisherfolk in terms of processing, storage and marketing of fish landed at these beaches.
Fish Waste Management Centre
Type:
Women Self Help Group
Location: Obunga, Kisumu East Sub-county
- Working environment is impacting negatively on their health. These include smoke related illnesses, fire hazards, pest infestation, poor processing and storage facilities
- There is rising energy cost for women who process fish. They rely on bio-fuels (firewood, charcoal) which as currently constituted is not sustainable
- The market for the products includes local and regional markets. These is impacted by packaging and transportation cost that are continuously rising.
KYAVONDA Farmers’ Cooperative Society
Type: Farmers’ Cooperative Society
Location: Ndatani Sub-Location, Ikanga-Kyatune Ward, Kitui County, Kenya
The organization is community based, registered as a cooperative society. Its priorities are in promotion of economic welfare and community based adaptations to climate change through community development hinged on access to water, food, income security and sustainable environmental conservation. To achieve its mission, the cooperative has initiatives on tree planting (especially melia voikesii, neem, acacia and other adaptable species); bee keeping (indigenous and improved systems); table banking; livestock breed improvement (from local low value breeds to Galla and dairy goats); water harvesting; climate smart agriculture (including conservation agriculture) and, women and youth empowerment. The group activities are informed by the fact that about 64% of the Kitui population is living under the poverty line. The situation is aggravated by the effect of climate change which causes frequent droughts.
The KYAVONDA outfit’s approach in activities implementation is participatory, characterized by promotion of integrated approaches and gender embracement. The organization faces challenges in meeting its objectives, chief among them being inadequate seedlings of climate resilient tree species, insufficient water for domestic and productive use, inadequate high value milk goats breeding stock, lack of quality drought tolerant crop seed stock, inadequate skills and knowledge on good agronomic practices and, inadequate institutional capacity. Other challenges hindering strategy implementation include weak organizational structures; inadequate resources for strategy implementation are dim communication channels and weak monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems.