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CODEA Empowering additional Households for Food Security and Climate Resilience in Kasese

Let's join hands to reduce 40% stunting and increase resilience to climate change! In Kasese district, 4 in 10 children are stunted, while in Maliba Sub-county, over half of children born to teenage mothers face stunting (UBOS, 2021). To address this, CODEA through the SCREL project funded by FCDE is supporting additional 50 vulnerable smallholder households in Isule and Bikone parishes to establish home-based kitchen gardens with early maturing organic crops. Farmers are already harvesting sukuma wiki and dodo, while other varieties promoted are showing great progress, improving food access and nutrition. In addition, households have constructed over 2,700 meters of contour trenches to protect farmland, conserve water, and strengthen resilience against climate change.