Feed the Future Multi-Year Strategy, Uganda, Public

1. INTRODUCTION
Uganda’s Feed the Future (FTF) strategy rests upon our analysis of the way poverty and nutritional
status interact in Uganda. While a logical assumption might be that as families’ incomes increase, they
have more money to spend on nutritious food and therefore nutritional status also increases, in fact
there is only a loose correlation between higher income and improved nutrition. While there is
43.4percent stunting in the lowest wealth quintile, stunting rises to 44 percent in the middle wealth
quintile and only drops to 25 percent in the highest wealth quintile 1 This insight is illustrated by the
fact that one of the regions with the highest rates of stunting (49.6 percent) is in the Southwest, known
as the country’s bread basket. This unexpected insight is the basis for our strategy.
Uganda’s FTF strategy is therefore built on three components. The components include: 1) Agriculture
and 2) Nutrition, which address head-on the twin objectives of the global FTF initiative. The third
component:3) Connecting Nutrition to Agriculture, seeks to eliminate the disconnect between
improved agriculture and improved nutrition. It will take an evidence based approach to understand
and scale up what is necessary to make nutrition improve alongside agriculture, focusing on household,
gender, and nutrition practices. The integration of two separate technical disciplines, agriculture and
health/nutrition, is at the core of our strategy. The strategy leverages what we have learned over the
past 15 years working in agriculture in Uganda—the text references earlier projects successes and
failures as we made program decisions for this strategy.
Figure 1.Activity-Component Relationships
Summary of Objectives, Beneficiaries, Geographic Targets
Nutrition
Who/Where/Why: This component will reach children in 47 districts in the Southwest and North of
Uganda. These regions were chosen because they represent the worst stunting and wasting in the
country; specific districts were chosen to complement the locations of similar programs that are not
funded directly with FTF funding (see Table 2 for details).
What: Some key outputs of nutrition activities are: nutrition officers placed in a majority of districts;
active Food and Nutrition Councils organized in districts; mandatory fortification of major
1 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey - 2006
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