Crowdsourcing vegetables for farmers’ livelihood improvement: a novel collaborative pilot in Uganda. Resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region project

East West Seed and Bioversity International, in collaboration with the Wageningen Center for Development Innovation, the World Vegetable Centre and National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO)-Uganda, are combining the East West Seed (EWS) farmer training approach and Bioversity International’s crowdsourcing methodology in a small pilot initiative on vegetables in Uganda under the umbrella of the larger resilient seed systems for climate change adaptation and sustainable livelihoods in the East Africa sub-region project. The main objective is to strengthen farmers’ capacity to make better use of crop (vegetable) diversity for multiple livelihood purposes. Based on a situational analysis in the Hoima area, 13 farmers were selected to take part in the pilot. They received training in the various aspects of vegetable management from the East West Seed Knowledge Transfer team in Uganda.