The document addresses the impact of climate change on Uganda's agriculture sector, which significantly contributes to the economy and food security but is vulnerable to climate-related challenges. It highlights the gender inequalities within the sector, noting that women constitute a majority of the workforce yet face barriers to access resources and decision-making. Strategies are proposed to empower women and youth in agricultural practices, promote gender-inclusive technologies, and enhance community participation in climate change adaptation initiatives.

2. NATIONAL ADAPTATION PLANNING IN THE
AGRICULTURE SECTOR IN UGANDA
Adressing Gender inequalities in Climate
Change Adaptation

3. The agricultural sector in Uganda is a fundamental
part of the Ugandan economy:
– contributes up to 24% of the country's GDP
– directly employing about 66% of the working population and
– Key to ensuring food security and reducing poverty
– Most vulnerable to the effects of climate change
– Agric. production mainly dominated by smallholder farmers who
rely on rain fed systems and use minimal inputs
– The productivity of most crops and livestock has been declining
– Uganda’s economy is therefore at stake given the impacts of CC
The importance of the Agriculture
sector in Uganda

4. • Effects
Drying of watering points
Degraded cropping and grazing lands
Increased wild fire outbreak
High crop and livestock losses
• Impacts
Reduction of water levels
Food insecurity and malnutrition
Reduced incomes and poverty
Increased morbidity and mortalities
Influence of Climate change on
Agricultural based livelihoods

5. • Promote climate resilient cropping systems and value chains;
• Promote climate resilient livestock production systems and value chains;
• Promote climate resilient fisheries and integrated fisheries resource
management;
• Strengthen climate information, early warning and disaster preparedness
mechanism for a better informed agricultural planning and decision
making;
• Promote sustainable natural resources management that enhances the
resilience of agriculture and agrarian communities to a changing climate;
• Promote CSA research and innovations;
• To enhance knowledge of good practices and partnerships to reduce
vulnerability of the agricultural sector to the impacts of climate change; and
• Promote a gendered climate smart agriculture programme to reduce the
vulnerability of women, youth and other groups.
NAP-Ag Objectives/
Strategies

6. Gender Inequalities in Uganda’s Agriculture
Why Gender in Uganda’s agriculture sector -facts and
figures in brief:
• Out of 72 % percent of the population employed in the agriculture sector in
Uganda, 77% are women and 63 % are youths (NPA 2015)
• Uganda ranks number 73 out of 102 countries on the OECD’s Social Institutions
and Gender Index (SIGI) (OECD).
• Uganda loses $67 million in gender gaps in agricultural productivity (UN
Women, 2016).

7. Major gender constraining issues identified
 Inequitable access to productive resources (e.g land, tools, seed,
information/knowledge) , especially for women, which limits their
engagement.
 Skewed work load against women (most of the work is done by women).
 More women engaged at the lowest level of the production chain, very
few participate in marketing of produce.
 More men involved in decision making in the value chains than women
 Low interest and engagement of the youth in Agriculture

8. Women and Men should have equal access to information,
knowledge, labour saving tools, inputs and markets
Commercial production Subsistence production
Most women farmers do not access
knowledge, information, tools and inputs
to advance beyond subsistance
production and hardly produce a surplus
and many women led households suffer
transitional food insecurity.
This Min-Till CA Male farmer producing
surplus. He is engaged in the cash economy
selling Soya Beans and Maize
The Gender Divide

9. Strategies to address identified Gender issues
 Identification of community groups with men and women so that access to productive resources
that become available through the programs are also accessed by the women for example oxen and
ploughs necessary to increase land under utilization and reduce drudgery on the part of women
 Include as many women as men in learning activities - as trainers, in the trainings, exposure visits,
hosting demonstrations, as benefits of inputs with a target of 50:50
 Promote gender inclusiive climate smart technologies that reduce workload for women but also
increase productivity and allow women to have additional income (from sell of women owned
crops )
 Encourage and strengthen gender inclusive farmer cooperatives that include women and give
them responsibilities in the leadership but also to treat them equally (give them equal opportunity
to get what men get, do what men do, learn what men learn, and sell their products at same prices
as men).

10. Some Ingredients of success from the Pilot CSA project
• A landscape approach involving the wider community in CCA activities
• Focus on the Ground actions/ investments
• Minimum 50% women participation in all CCA knowledge
management activities
• Putting emphasis on farmer to farmer learning initiatives as a key
approach to include women in uptake of CCA technologies/practices.
• Use of schools to reach out to the youths and the wider community
• Value Chain Approach especially the integration of post harvest
technologies, bulking and agro-processing reduce losses and increase
profit.
• Support transformation of gender inclusive farmers groups into viable
economic organisations (Producer Cooperatives)
• Integrate use of ICT to access extension , weather and marketing
information
• Link farmers organisation to private sector (input, services and
marketing) firms

11. Women play lead role in practical skills
training of CCA practices at the local level

12. Targeting Women has yielded results
CCA Field Days register more
Women participation
Women Leading in
demonstrating CCA practices

13. Women targeted in training on CCA new technologies
A Training in ADP Ripping
Skills
Practical Training to transfer
skills
This is the name of the
Conference
13 18 May 2015

14. Women scale up adoption of ADP CA operations
increased Land under SLM to 1250 Acres in 5 Districts
Buyende District Busia District
This is the name of the
Conference
14 18 May 2015

15. Women at the frontline in adoption of CCA practices
Maria – adopter of crop residue retention

16. CA yield increase visible year after
year in the same planting space
2016 2015

17. CA Demonstration Gardens and Cross Visits

18. ADP ripping makes life easier for
farmers

19. Improving post harvest handling and
produce Bulking through Cooperatives
Improved post harvest handling
and Bulking of produce
Coming together to form
Cooperatives

20. Building Sustainability Blocks for CCA
Women enhanced participation
in cooperative organisations
Registered Cooperative
Enterprises