Project info
- Location: Uganda
- Year: 2024 - 2025
- Client: ACTogether Uganda
- Size: Hydroponic growing-tests established on four slum households
- Collaborators: ACTogether Uganda, National Slum Dwellers Federation Uganda
- Financing: Cisu
- Project team: Klara Elmdahl, Fie Rasmussen, Siri Braide, Yuri Mamero
- Contact: Team leader Klara Elmdahl: [email protected]
In this pilot project, we investigate how the yield of urban farming can be increased to contribute to food security, job creation and potentially also reduce the urban heat island effect in a dense and treeless slum.
The project is based on upscaling of existing urban farming practices in a slum in Kampala, Uganda, but explores how the barrier of lack of space can be overcome by incorporating roof surfaces and hydroponic cultivation.
The project is developed in close collaboration with our Ugandan partners National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda and ACTogether Uganda as well as the local community in the Kinawataka slum where the project takes place.
The project is based on our previous Growing Green project where we established an urban farming learning environment for community members who wanted to learn more about urban farming and get started growing food at home.
Watch a video from the Growing Green project here.
The project is developed in close collaboration with our Ugandan partners National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda and ACTogether Uganda as well as the local community in the Kinawataka slum where the project takes place.
The project is based on the poor food security in many slums, where vulnerable and resource-poor residents are severely affected by the consequences of climate change. These lead, for instance, to rising food prices due to crop failures, which in turn leads to under- and malnutrition among the urban poor who are unable to grow their own food, thus contributing to keeping slum dwellers trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty and disease.
We will update this page regularly when there are new developments in the project.
Status early Sept. 2024: Siri Braide and Anton Ryslinge have been in Kampala to hold an inception workshop, measure the four roof surfaces to be cultivated on, meet with the municipality and mayor, as well as the company Hydroponic Farms Uganda, which participates as a knowledge partner in the project. In addition, roles were clarified and distributed between AUG and the two local partner organizations National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda and ACTogether.
