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Seedlings, Nurseries & Agroforestry
01 · Food security
Yields under stress
- Climate shocks affecting crop yields
- Poor soil fertility across key regions
- Limited diversification of farm systems
The One Million Avocado Uganda Project is a national agroforestry initiative transforming livelihoods, restoring landscapes, and building climate resilience across Uganda.
GSFN’s One Million Avocado Planting Campaign is designed to address food insecurity, rural poverty, and climate change together — not as three separate efforts.
At its core, the campaign will plant 1 million grafted avocado trees, support 100,000 smallholder farmers, and establish a network of 200+ community nurseries — creating lasting agroforestry infrastructure across Eastern Uganda, Northern Uganda, and the West Nile region.
Beyond tree planting, the initiative integrates carbon finance through digital Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (dMRV), strengthens value chains for export readiness, and prepares Uganda’s avocado sector for EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliance.
The campaign brings together government ministries, farmer cooperatives, private agribusiness, climate finance institutions, and international development partners under a unified, community-led delivery model.
The AVOCADA Youth Corps is a national youth movement under the AVOCADA Uganda — Avocado Value-chain, Climate Action & Agroforestry Development Programme. We are looking for enthusiastic young people who are passionate about agriculture, climate action, technology, and community development.
Uganda’s first nationwide avocado celebration — seven days, seven themes, one coordinated national movement.
Seedlings, Nurseries & Agroforestry
Digital Agriculture & Smart Farmers
Climate Action & Healthy Landscapes
Value Addition, Processing & Green Enterprises
Markets, Finance & Global Trade
Health, Nutrition & Innovation
Circular Economy, Community & AVOCADA Uganda Awards
The AVOCADA Uganda Week 2026 Celebration Booklet is a practical guide for organisations, institutions, communities, and individuals taking part in Uganda’s first nationwide avocado celebration. It sets out the vision, themes, activities, and opportunities that will unite stakeholders across the country.
The week is deliberately decentralised. There is no expectation to travel to a central venue — every partner is encouraged to celebrate within their own community, whether at a demonstration farm, nursery, cooperative, school, university, research institution, processing facility, local government office, community centre, or village. Every local activity becomes part of one coordinated national celebration.
The booklet is intended to inspire participation rather than prescribe it. Adapt the suggested ideas to your local context while aligning with the daily themes.
By downloading and using this booklet, you join a growing national movement that celebrates Uganda’s avocado sector while advancing sustainable agriculture, climate resilience, community development, and green economic growth. Together, let us grow prosperity, restore nature, and empower communities.
Uganda’s rural communities face compounding pressures that no single intervention can resolve on its own.
A comprehensive agroforestry response that addresses climate, economic, and food security challenges together.
Grafted avocado varieties integrated into existing farm systems for resilience and yield.
Regenerative land management to reverse degradation and restore fertility.
Tree cover supporting watershed health and landscape regeneration.
Sequestration-based carbon revenue unlocking new income streams for farmers.
Technology-enabled traceability for carbon accounting and EUDR compliance.
Value chain development and certification for premium export market access.
The campaign concentrates on smallholder farmer clusters, cooperative networks, and climate-vulnerable landscapes across three regions of Uganda.
Mt. Elgon region (Sebei sub-region), Bukedi zone, Busoga and Teso areas — established farming communities with strong cooperative networks.
Lango and Acholi sub-regions — high-potential agroforestry zones where diversified tree crops strengthen post-recovery livelihoods.
Climate-vulnerable landscapes along the Albert Nile — priority areas for soil restoration and resilient farm incomes.
Delivery is anchored in local institutions — so the infrastructure, skills, and income stay in the community long after planting ends.
Each nursery is a hub for seedling production, farmer training, and local coordination — run as a community enterprise.
Cooperatives provide the institutional backbone for aggregation, quality control, and collective bargaining power.
A lead-farmer model carries training and agronomy support to the last mile, farmer to farmer.
Dedicated hubs make equitable economic opportunity a core programme objective — not an afterthought.
The campaign is built to generate measurable change — verified by digital monitoring, not assumed.
From foundations to a self-sustaining agroforestry economy, in three deliberate phases.
Multiple funding streams support the campaign today, while long-term revenue is designed to make it self-sufficient.
Join us on International Avocado Day — 31 July 2026 — for the official launch. Farmers, cooperatives, investors, researchers, and development partners are all invited to register their interest.