Connecting Residents to access Local Food

The Local Food Cooperative provides trainings for students on sustainable diets. During the trainings. The Local food cooperative provides an opportunity for students a diet of local and fresh food, local fruits and vegetables. During the training, students cook food together.

Organizing Harvest of the Month lessons

The Local Food Cooperative has the power to help people redefine relationships with one another and with food source. Expanding this knowledge of where food comes from, is one step toward creating a better world.

Supporting Local Food Systems

The Local Food Cooperative has a grants scheme that provides assistance to Local Food enterprises and entrepreneurship initiatives around local, healthy food production.

About Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative

The Local Food Cooperative brings together farmers, community and commercial fruit and vegetable growers & food producers, local producers; food suppliers, distributors, retailers, food vendors, purchasing groups, networks as well hotels, canteens, restaurants, Schools, urban consumer groups and all those involved in food production and consumption. The initiative also focusses on members of the Local Food Network like producers and their organizations, trade unions, cooperatives, exporter groups, food producing companies, retailers, traders, consumer associations, local, Municipal and City governments, research institutions, universities and civil society organizations all over Kabale Municipality.

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Good To Grow

This programme of the Local Food Cooperative is an educational outreach programme with a much broader mission to serve the whole community by helping children and adults develop healthy eating habits. . . .

Sustainable Farming

The Local Food Cooperative is supporting food production systems such as community food growing and sustainable practices and ecological systems which work with nature to produce diverse, healthy food. . . .

Good Food Economy

A Good Food Economy means a diverse and thriving supply chain from ‘farm to fork’. The Local Food Cooperative is supporting decent livelihoods for farmers and food producers at home and ensures food suppliers, retailers and caterers make healthy, sustainable and culturally appropriate options easy and attractive choice for everyone, with. . . .

Good Food For All

The Local Food Cooperative is working to ensure everyone has a right to healthy and affordable food. Good food for all means ensuring that people experiencing financial crisis or food poverty can access and afford a healthy diet. The Local Food Cooperative is working to improve food in schools, hospitals and communities by conducting classes on. . . .

1. Increasing access to local food that’s healthy for people and the planet.

Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative is a locally-sourced grocery store owned by the members of the Sustainable Food Forum of Kabale Municipality. At the core of the Food Cooperative’s strategic priorities is fostering an equitable and sustainable food system. The Local Food Cooperative is working to support residents access fresh and locally sourced food.

2. Sourcing local foods from local producers and marketing these local foods to consumers.

The Local Food Cooperative encourages “shorter” or local supply chains, particularly direct market sales to consumers through Community Supported Agriculture, farmers markets, farm stands and other alternative outlets. It supports local food networks that emphasize sustainable food production, distribution and consumption.

3. Developing people’s capacity to understand and dismantle the barriers of access to healthy food.

The Local Food Cooperative presents an opportunity for residents to manage their farmers markets and expand food access. The focus on bringing food assistance currencies into several farmers markets is one way that residents have been able to increase the amount of healthy food in the kitchens for everyone and not just for those who can afford.

Incentives of Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative

1. Credit Facility.

The Credit Facility is an incentive for farmers, food venders and food shops as well as restaurants and hotels. The Credit Facility is another strategy for supporting food vendors and suppliers to engage in sustainable food production businesses. Through the credit facility of the Local Food Cooperative, KMDF provides loans to farmers, food vendors and suppliers ranging from UGX 100,000 ($27) to UGX 2,000,000 ($556) at an interest rate of 2%. This facility provides credit support that is not available anywhere in banks and other financial institutions in the Municipality. This is encouraging farmers and food producers to embrace sustainable practices of food production.

2. Fresh Exchange

The Local Food Cooperative has a Fresh Exchange- a matching program available at several Kabale farmers markets to shoppers. The program provides Kabale Municipality Residents with supplemental food assistance each year. Shoppers who are members of the Food Cooperative can go to the farmers market and withdraw money from their benefits in the form of tokens they can use at farmers’ stalls. Fresh Exchange will then match their withdrawal with up to $10 additional dollars per shopping.

3. Farmers Market Fund.

The farmers Market Fund is also another incentive of the Local Food Cooperative. The Local Food Cooperative started the Farmers Market Fund to expand farmers market network and attract more shoppers to the markets.

About Food Systems

Food systems (FS) encompass the entire range of actors and their interlinked value-adding activities involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal of food products that originate from agriculture, forestry or fisheries, and parts of the broader economic, societal and natural environments in which they are embedded.

The food system is composed of sub-systems (e.g. farming system, waste management system, input supply system, etc.) and interacts with other key systems (e.g. energy system, trade system, health system, etc.). Therefore, a structural change in the food system might originate from a change in another system; for example, a policy promoting more biofuel in the energy system will have a significant impact on the food system. A sustainable food system (SFS) is a food system that delivers food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the economic, social and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future generations are not compromised.
This means that:
a) It is profitable throughout (economic sustainability)
b) It has broad-based benefits for society (social sustainability)
c) It has a positive or neutral impact on the natural environment (environmental sustainability).

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Kabale, Western Uganda

Connecting Residents to access Local Food

Organizing Harvest of the Month lessons

Supporting Local Food Systems

About Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative

Good To Grow

Sustainable Farming

Good Food Economy

Good Food For All

The Purpose of Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative

1. Increasing access to local food that’s healthy for people and the planet.

2. Sourcing local foods from local producers and marketing these local foods to consumers.

3. Developing people’s capacity to understand and dismantle the barriers of access to healthy food.

Incentives of Kabale Municipality Local Food Cooperative

1. Credit Facility.

2. Fresh Exchange

3. Farmers Market Fund.

We are always happy for new partnerships, support, and collaborations

About Food Systems

Upcoming Local Food Events

Harvest of the Month Lesson 1

Harvest of the Month Lesson 2

Harvest of the Month Lesson 3

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