Share this poster and help me end poverty.
I am a farmer who is fighting extreme poverty here in Busoga, Uganda’s poorest region.
The poster that I am asking you to help share is of a campaign that is asking the web3 community across the world to help us install a grain facility that will create market linkages for the rural poor in our region. I created that web3 campaign only as a last resort after trying for ten years — with no success — to raise support for an integrated agro-processing plant that would have placed the ultra poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for more than one type of crop.
I am confident, however, that getting at least a grain facility alone installed, will then give us the leverage to get our envisioned integrated plant installed. Help me do this!
The grain facility, alone, will also have quite an impact:
1) Building market linkages. Currently, our project (the UCF) is running a white sorghum project, and our farmers’ sorghum is bought by Uganda Breweries. Once this facility is in place, it will make many other big buyers to view us as strategic partners (including international relief agencies like the WFP, UNHCR, World Vision, GOAL, Red Cross etc), enabling rural farmers in our region to access high value markets for their produce.
2). Catalyzing self-sustainability. Currently, our project provides all our target farmers with free initial inputs (seed, tarpaulins, liquid fertilizers/pesticides, spray pumps etc) only as a hand-up, because many can’t afford them. This is where this grain facility will help.
On the one hand, the presence of this facility will in itself be an assurance to all local farmers of the presence of a ready market for their produce (including those farmers whom the UCF hasn’t been supporting directly), giving them the self-urge to secure the needed inputs on their own, and take part in our work. On the other, for those farmers whom the UCF is currently providing with inputs, the market linkages and partnerships that this facility will create… will give these farmers a steady income stream, and in turn, the self-motivation to produce more, and thus the ability to use their own incomes to secure the needed inputs on their own, making our overall work self-sustaining.
3). Diversifying incomes for the rural poor. This grain facility will create market linkages not just for sorghum, but also for many other crops like maize, millet, rice, beans, peas etc, which are also bought by many institutional buyers (like the UN’s WFP), but which rural farmers in our region have previously never had a mainstream market for. This will enable the rural poor in our region to diversify their incomes and escape poverty.
Help me accomplish this by sharing this poster via social media.
Your support could be the turning point that Busoga’s ultra poor have been waiting for.
Written on Sept 26, 2025 by:
Anthony, founder UCF
anthony@ugandafarm.org
whatsapp: +256 759 908591