by josiahmwd | Sep 23, 2018 | International
Fresh off the heels of our first harvest this year, our team is back at it this week planting seeds for our second season. We began planting this week and will continue into next week. All of our seeds were inoculated with rhizobium and then planted within 6 hours of...
by josiahmwd | Aug 28, 2018 | Key Sectors
One of the fundamental goals in developing improved rural transportation systems in Sub-Saharan Africa is to create a link between smallholder farmers and major urban areas and their markets across the globe. Farmers who have access to transport are likely to have...
by josiahmwd | Aug 27, 2018 | News
Harvest season is underway for the World Food Bank at our Mbarara Farm in Uganda! Both our maize and our soya crops are outperforming expectations. Farmer training is still ongoing at the farm, and we are pleased to report that we’re now working with more than...
by josiahmwd | Jul 15, 2018 | World Food Bank Team
As a physician, Dr. Joseph Ojwang has always been ambitious around his passion for health and medicine. But after losing both of his grandparents to liver disease, he felt a different kind drive – one that was aimed at understanding exactly what was causing this...
by josiahmwd | Jun 26, 2018 | International
Nine days after planting the seeds at our farm in Uganda this spring, our team on the ground, led by our farm managers Daniel Murunga and Dan Kilimani, headed out into the field to inspect the germination process. At an initial glance, the team saw something...