Accelerating Adoption of Climate-Smart Agriculture: Reaching Women Farmers in Uganda with Video Extension

Nov 7, 2022 | Moses Lule
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Women play a vital role in agricultural production in low-income countries, but often lack the information needed to improve their agricultural practices. A recent dissemination event in Uganda highlighted the potential of targeted video-based extension to boost women’s adoption of key climate-smart technologies.

In Uganda, women carry out most agricultural activities, but agricultural information continues to be directed toward household heads, typically men. This creates a gender gap in information that could hobble the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) to transform smallholder farmers from subsistence to commercial farmers. The “Reaching Smallholder Women with Information Services and Resilience Strategies to Respond to Climate Change” project was piloted to bridge this gap. The project findings were presented to stakeholders in Kampala last month.