In Kasese, over 40% of children below 5 years old are malnourished. 14% of the diseases treated annually are food borne. 68% of the households in Kasese have a single meal because of food insecurity The Climate change crisis disrupts food availability and quality.
Overview
Anasi Farmers Association is a youth-led not-for-profit organization with registration number CBO/1925, started in 2013 operating in the Rwenzori region of Uganda in Kasese district empowering communities to end malnutrition and to ensure that people are co-existing with the environment.
The Solution
We are on a mission of empowering rural communities, especially women with skills and knowledge to end hunger and malnutrition and taking care of the environment. We teach them on how to organically grow their own vegetables and fruits and refer them to visit the clinics for nutrition assessment. We are also empowering the…
The Opportunity
Agroecology is one of the strongest approaches to overcome climate change crisis and its effects 88% of the people in Kasese depend on farming for their livelihood and food. In the district we have over six rivers Approximately 80% of the households in Kasese have iron roofed houses, a potential for water harvesting. We…
Anasi Success Stories
RURAL MOTHERS AT THE PEAK OF ENDING MALNUTRITION AMIDST COVID-19 PANDEMIC. ‘I can now feed my children amidst this covid-19 pandemic” a one Mbambu Elizabeth narrates. During one of our monitoring visits to the beneficiaries, Elizabeth, a mother of two was carrying out her street business in Kalere town,Kisinga sub county before the outbreak of…
About Us
Background Information on Anasi Farmers. Anasi Farmers Association is a community-based organization was started in the year 2013 by a group of women smallholder farmers committed to improving the living conditions of women and children in rural communities of Kasese, Uganda district. Anasi Farmers aims at empowering rural communities, especially the women, with skills and knowledge…
What we do
Sustainable Agriculture Kasese district has over 80% small scale farmers producing on averagely 1-2.5 acres, these farmers are not educated and use local mechanisms of agricultural production and live both on the hard to reach mountains and slopes of the Rwenzori mountain(FAO Report 2018). These farmers are only dependent on agriculture yet they continue to…