Uganda Climate Smart Agricultural Transformation Project

The development objective of the Climate Smart Agricultural (CSA) Transformation Project for Uganda is to increase productivity, market access, and resilience of select value chains in the project area and to respond promptly and effectively to an eligible crisis or emergency. The project comprises of five components. The first component, strengthening CSA research, seed, and agro-climatic information systems will support the development, validation, packaging, and dissemination of context-specific CSA technologies, innovations, and management practices (TIMPs) to target beneficiaries. It consists of following sub-components: (i) supporting CSA research and innovations; (ii) building competitive and sustainable seed systems; (iii) strengthening agro-climate monitoring and information systems; and (iv) strengthening institutional capacity for development and dissemination of CSA TIMPs of Public Agricultural Research Institute (PARIs) and the Animal Genetic Resource Centers. The second component, promoting adoption of CSA technologies and practices will support investments for upscaling and adoption of CSA TIMPs. It consists of following sub-components: (i) productivity enhancement and resilience investments for income generation; (ii) productivity enhancement and resilience for food and nutrition security in refugee settlements; and (iii) building institutional capacity for productivity enhancement and resilience and strengthening service delivery. The third component, market development and linkages for selected value chains objective is to improve access to remunerative markets through increased access to climate smart harvesting, postharvest handling, storage, value addition, market linkage services, equipment, and infrastructure by higher-level institutions (producer organizations) established under subcomponent 2.3. It consists of following sub-components: (i) investments in market development and linkages for selected value chains; and (ii) investments in...