Agency for Transformation

Farmers/producers’ organisations are of vital importance in this transformation, as they are powerful machines to disseminate new ideas, new technologies and knowledge over vast areas. These social aggregators are marketing interfaces to reach the bottom of the pyramid, the people who have to live on less than two dollar a day; they reach them because of their layered structure. At the same time, they are the social media transmitting the voice of the poor on a large scale. Importantly also, are public institutions that need to transform so that they can respond to farmers’ reality rather than political expediency

Agency for Transformation (AfT) is a think and do tank working with smallholder farmers to transform East Africa. Why is it that at the root of this agenda- are farmers, their business, organisations and institutions? For countries across East Africa and Uganda in particular, farmers are crucial anchors of transformation because they produce food and wealth in rural areas. It is a simple, but so often forgotten truth: they establish new enterprises that bring forth employment opportunities for their children, who could also go to school because of their parents’ entrepreneurship. Thus, the structural transformation of the economies in East Africa starts with farmer creativity and hard work. Indeed in for example, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi agriculture remains the most prominent economic activity and primary source of livelihood for over 70 per cent of the respective populations.

We are located at;

Oak Building, Mulawa, Bulindo

Working Hours

Mon 9:00am - 5:00pm / Friday 9:00am - 4:00pm

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