We train farmers in self-help groups in ecological organic agriculture, then support them for three to five years until they can carry on with limited backstopping from Kulika.
Our eleven-month course mixes residential blocks at the Kulika Training Centre with time back on the farm, so farmers practise each skill at home before the next block.
Farmers reflect on their farm challenges and build a positive attitude to organic agriculture.
We help each farmer use the resources on their farm to grow food and sell the surplus.
Groups start savings and loan associations and form marketing groups or cooperatives.
Trained farmers become trainers, passing skills to neighbours with our support.
Key Farmer Trainers are experienced farmers we select and train to become educators, innovators and mentors in their own communities.
More than 300 have been trained. They run demonstration farms, teach climate-smart practices and support farmer groups, reducing dependence on outside extension services. Some reach as many as 225 neighbours each.
We help smallholder farmers adopt farming that protects soil, water and the environment while coping with a changing climate.
Crop rotation, composting and natural pest control cut soil degradation and pollution. We encourage farmers to revive traditional knowledge and combine it with organic and permaculture innovation. The Kulika Organic Pesticide was validated on nine demonstration sites and certified by UgoCert.
We develop farmer-identified value chains for key organic commodities, from seed to sale.
With Mubende youth we strengthened the bean, maize and honey value chains, signed agreements with local traders and set up a bulking centre in each sub-county. Participatory Guarantee System groups with 249 members have been profiled for organic certification.
Locally specific businesses that support farmers across the value chain without competing with the community.
Our social enterprise lines generated about UGX 112.8 million in 2025 and double as demonstration plots for the practices we teach. Farmers working with us as partners earn daily income from each activity.
Programmes driven by what communities need, with members involved from planning to implementation.
We design programmes to become self-sustaining, and keep in touch with alumni through tracer studies so past beneficiaries stay part of a learning network.
Continuous learning keeps our work relevant and improving.
Workshops, mentoring that pairs experienced and newer staff, and regular reflection. Our Training Centre hosted 98 interns in 2025, rated at 93 per cent by Makerere University supervisors.
We review these regularly so they stay relevant and keep improving livelihoods.
Our Centre is a working farm, classroom and research station. Explore each part in detail.
Short courses, the eleven-month programme and on-station field trials.
Trainings and researchTen subjects, from organic farming and soil care to value addition and marketing.
See the curriculum
Housing, feeding, fodder and breed improvement for mixed livestock.
Animal productionAgroforestry, beekeeping and value addition that keep the Centre self-financing.
Food forests and enterprises
Rooms, meals and a meeting hall for residential courses and workshops.
Accommodation and hallKulika Honey and organic produce grown at the Centre.
Visit the shopIn farming, market, hospital, school, refugee and host communities. Women and girls are actively encouraged to take part in every programme.
Women’s and men’s issues are built into how every programme is designed, run and evaluated.
Training in environmental awareness, tree planting and waste management for people, animals and the planet.
Employable and business skills, apprenticeships, market links, savings and start-up support.
Refugee and host community members in Rhino Camp learn the design cycle to build technologies that solve their own problems.
Participants in Rhino and Imvepi settlements reuse phones to build income-generating, community-led technologies.
Creative capacity building and skills for self-employment for young people in Terego and Madi-Okollo.
FAO’s family farming platform tells how one farmer transformed her land after our eleven-month course.
Women produce and sell clean briquettes for income, health and climate, with progress reported since 2020.
We share learning and speak up for smallholder farmers alongside these national and regional networks.
