TESO SUB REGION CONSOLIDATED APPEAL 2010 UGANDA: MAY-AUGUST PROGRESS CHART

Rainfalls above average have resulted in a good harvest that will help address the diminished food stocks of farmers used up during the planting period, as well as the low dietary diversity.

There was no general food support provided in the region. Latest information on GAM rates and other nutritional indicators was not available for the reporting period as the joint food security and nutrition assessment is yet to be conducted in October 2010.

Support to agricultural production targeted only Amuria, Katakwi and, to a small extent Kaberamaido districts, and was mostly in the form of increasing farmers' access to planting materials of drought-tolerant crops, improving water conservation and agronomic practices, and improving value-addition and market access through interventions like (cassava and sweet potato) vegetative planting material multiplication, farmer field schools, dam desilting, etc.

Training for disaster preparedness and risk reduction will precede the development of district contingency plans both of which will be done over the next quarter.