Enhancing Sustainable Soil Management in Uganda - GCP/UGA/059/CPR
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Agriculture is one of Uganda’s most important sectors; about 80 percent of the country’s population lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. However, soil fertility is declining at an alarming rate due to unsustainable practices, leading to the degradation of soil properties. This, in turn, gives rise to unsustainable crop production, given that a considerable proportion of soils in the country is highly weathered with the decline of soil organic carbon and low reserves of the macro and micronutrients to support crop growth. The current soil fertility management practices that smallholders use, such as the recycling of crop residues, biomass transfer, and other organic practices, appear to be inadequate to counter the outflow of nutrients. Consequently, a number of case studies have shown that crop yields are declining. Given that the population is increasing, this poses a big challenge for policy-makers to address the declining soil fertility trend in the region. Against this background the project aimed to contribute to the protection of soils and the promotion of the sustainable utilization of soil resources, to enhance agricultural development and promote ecological agriculture in Uganda.