Livestock & crop system development in Karamoja

The report “Agricultural development in Karamoja, Uganda: recent trends in livestock and crop systems, and resilience impacts” (2018, 78pp), by Adrian Cullis, examines policy and programming trends in agricultural development in Karamoja in northeast Uganda. It was commissioned by the USAID/Uganda Karamoja Resilience Support Unit (KRSU) and covers both crop farming and transhumant livestock management. The report offers findings on agroecological realities and production responses, the huge impact of disarmament on livestock numbers, the policy narratives that favoured crop farming and sedentarisation of pastoralists, and the uncertainty of the direction of climate change impacts in Karamoja. It urges policymakers and development practitioners to take account of Karamoja’s unique environment within Uganda and provides recommendations for both the livestock and the crop-farming sub-sectors, while recognising the strong linkages between the pastoral, agropastoral and cropping zones.

Posted on 21 October 2018 in Pastoralism & Peacebuilding, Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition