FAO Digital Media Hub - Brenda Carolyn Piloya, left, National Agronomist, at the FAO Kitgum Office, conducting a workshop with local facilitators about the status of the crops in Kitgum.

Brenda Carolyn Piloya, second from left, National Agronomist, at the FAO Kitgum Office, conducting a workshop with local facilitators about the status of the crops in Kitgum.

A woman working in the common area of an Internally Displaced Persons camp (IDP) just outside of Kitgum.

A woman sorting seeds in an Internally Displaced Persons camp (IDP) just outside of Kitgum.

An inhabitant of an Internally Displaced Persons camp (IDP) just outside of Kitgum.

A young girl in an Internally Displaced Persons camp (IDP) just outside of Kitgum.

A woman working in the common area of an Internally Displaced Persons camp (IDP) just outside of Kitgum.

A young girl carrying her brother on her back in an Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp just outside of Kitgum.

Mr Percy W. Misika, FAO Representative in Uganda during an interview at the FAO office in Kampala.

Mr Percy W. Misika, left, FAO Representative in Uganda during an interview at the FAO office in Kampala. To the right, Dr Emmanuel Niyibigira National Project Manager/NERICA Project, Ms Liliane Kambir

Mr Percy W. Misika, FAO Representative in Uganda referring to a Ugandan map during an interview at the FAO office in Kampala.

Mr Percy W. Misika, FAO Representative in Uganda during an interview at the FAO office in Kampala.

Lilian Atin, Facilitator of the Acungi Rice and Abany Rice Group posing inside the NERICA rice depot in Apac District in Lira.

Mr Percy W. Misika, FAO Representative in Uganda, referring to a map during an interview with Ms Liliane Kambirigi, FAO Information Officer.

Lilian Atin, Facilitator of the Acungi Rice and Abany Rice Group posing inside the NERICA rice depot in Apac District in Lira.

National Project Manager/NERICA Project, Dr Emmanuel Niyibigira shaking hands with Farmer Field School Facilitator Alphonse Oyoo, after giving a demonstration on seed cultivation in a NERICA rice fiel

From left, Dr Emmanuel Niyibigira National Project Manager/NERICA Project, Opio John Peter, Farmer Field School Consultant and Dr Ram Chaudhary Agronomist Project Manager/NERICA Project inspecting the

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Brenda Carolyn Piloya, left, National Agronomist, at the FAO Kitgum Office, conducting a workshop with local facilitators about the status of the crops in Kitgum.

FAO Project GCP/UGA/036/JPN: Agriculture and Rural Development through Innovative Rice-based Farming Systems for Food Security and Poverty Reduction in Uganda. Overall objective: to promote innovative rice-based farming systems for sustainable intensification of rice production through enabling the capacity at national, regional and community levels. Immediate objectives: 2.1) Immediate objective 1: Enhancement of the sustainable intensification of rice-based production systems through introduction of agricultural conservation practices, crop rotation and crop-livestock systems, including supplemental irrigation for upland and rainfed lowland ecosystems 2.2) Immediate objective 2: Development of a sustainable quality seed production and distribution systems at national and community levels of improved rice varieties including NERICA 2.3) Immediate objective 3: Improvement of rice post-harvest technologies at household/community level through demonstrations, rehabilitation of post-harvest pilot centres and dissemination of technologies in line with identified needs.

07/01/2009

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