Sustaining Connections That Matter Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods 2018 donor impact report A Message from the President

In the year 2050, a gathering will Dear People of the Year 2050: take place at the Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre in the Kamuli Greetings from the year 2018! This year we dedicated the Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre. It is a District of Uganda. The purpose wonderful new facility. We trust the passing years have made the Mpirigiti center a hopeful destination of the assembled group will be for many thousands of people — those who have come eager to learn, those who have come willing to to open a time capsule from the serve, and those who have been blessed by working together to pursue a happier, hope-filled future. year 2018. In our current world of 2018, we often talk about “2050” as an important year — a time for which we The time capsule was sealed must direct our energies now to ensure that expanding world populations have enough nourishing this past July when I was food to eat and are able to lead healthy, satisfying lives. “Food is the moral right of all who are born honored to be present to help into this world” — That’s what Norman Borlaug, a famous Iowan, agricultural scientist and Nobel dedicate the new training center Prize laureate, once said. We hope 2050 finds that all people have attained this moral right. for the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods. For nearly 15 Here are the main messages I’d like to share with you: years, we have worked hand- 2018 donor impact report 2018 donor impact in-hand with the people of the To the people of the Kamuli District in 2050: Sustain our friendship and partnership many years into Kamuli District to make their the future. Let us make a better world for all our children and grandchildren. Let us end hunger, but let lives better and their prospects us never stop hungering for knowledge. brighter through agriculture and education. To the students of Iowa State University and Makerere University in 2050: Believe in the power of The Mpirigiti Rural Training a science-based education in agriculture, food, and natural resources. Believe your hard work will Centre epitomizes what is positively transform the tomorrows of people worldwide. possible when the support of nearly 100 donors and Iowa To the faculty and staff of Iowa State University in 2050: Be true to Iowa State’s land-grant ideals, no a in bl e R ur l L i ve lih oo ds State’s land-grant mission matter where your work takes you. Make the mentoring of young people part of your legacy — and unite through a passionate, ISU’s legacy for all its 192 years of existence in 2050. compassionate vision for change and progress. To the benefactors of Iowa State’s Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in 2050: You stand on the shoulders of giants, who gave so generously to see progress made to benefit the world’s poor. Through Inside the time capsule is a letter this intersection of public and private interests, we can reach even greater heights. Let’s work together Ce nt e r f o S ust I wrote. I’d like to share my letter to bring closer the day we put hunger and poverty permanently in the past. that will be read by that gathering in 2050: Wendy Wintersteen President, Iowa State University

Holy cow!

When Chuck and Margo Wood arrived in Kamuli last July for the dedication of the new Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre, they went on a walking tour of the livestock demonstration area with Max Rothschild, CSRL’s associate director for livestock programs. 1

The first stop on the tour was a cattle pen containing a single heifer. It turns out A donor story the animal was “on loan” from a local farmer. The new demonstration site had a pig and chickens, but no cow of its own.

Chuck’s eyes lit up. “Margo and I looked at each other and winked,” he says.

Both had immediately called up a 60-year-old memory.

In 1958, a 17-year-old Chuck had shown the grand champion steer at the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago — a remarkable achievement, reported the story in the Des Moines Register, for an “Iowa farm boy doubly “The livestock demonstration area afflicted with an asthmatic attack and a broken leg.” is a great new resource for the rural training center.” “It was a bit dramatic,” Chuck recalls, “but also a big deal. The International — Chuck Wood (right) with Margo Wood (left) at the July 2018 was the Olympics for livestock competition. I’d broken my leg wrestling and Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre dedication. ISU President Wendy competed in a walking cast.” Wintersteen (center) is presenting them with a painting by a local Ugandan artist. Chuck’s champion was named Holy Cow, “an attractive, flashy steer,” the judge noted in 1958. Standing next to the loaner cow at Mpirigiti, Chuck decided to provide a gift contents to CSRL to get its own heifer — as a memorial to his grand champion. A bred heifer was purchased to become Mpirigiti’s own. In October, the new Holy Cow Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre Opens its Doors page 2 delivered its first calf. Bringing Nutrition Closer to the People page 6 • Income Program Sustains Communities Chuck and Margo’s gift is only the latest example of how they’ve supported Livestock Multiplies Reach page 10 CSRL through the years. Increasing Return on Efforts page 12 A special footnote: “I used the proceeds from selling Holy Cow to send me Creating Ag Entrepreneurs page 14 through college at Iowa State, with change to spare,” says Chuck. “When we Broadening Students’ Vision page 16 got married, we bought a small home with a down payment made possible by Holy Cow.” Cover photos: Brian Nonnecke Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre Opens its Doors 2 “We are providing knowledge, skills, resources and, most importantly, hope — hope to people who are working to overcome some of the most challenging conditions life can offer. The new training center means we have even more hope to share through expanded programs and more space to serve an even greater number of students and Kamuli District citizens.”

— Wendy Wintersteen, ISU President 2018 donor impact report 2018 donor impact a in bl e R ur l L i ve lih oo ds Ce nt e r f o S ust

Photos this page: Brian Nonnecke Key features of the new training center include: An important new chapter for the Center for Sustainable Rural • Large multipurpose room for training sessions, meetings and dining Livelihoods began in 2018 with the dedication of the Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre in the Kamuli District. • Library and lounge • dormitory for 48 trainees/students, with facilities for disabled trainees

The training center is yet another milestone in the “The new training center means we have even • rooms for up to 13 visiting faculty, 3 history of CSRL, which has become a model for more hope to share,” she continued, “through staff and guests international university agricultural education expanded programs and more space to serve an M pirigiti R ur a l T r ining Ce ntr e o p ns its d oo rs • House for the facilities manager programs and for inspiring students from Iowa even greater number of students and Kamuli State and Makerere University to address global District citizens.” • Sleeping accommodations for up to hunger and poverty. six staff Gerald Kolschowsky, who with his wife Karen are The $2.7 million Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre the founding benefactors of CSRL and the new • Kitchen facility (75-person capacity), will serve as an educational and training focal Mpirigiti facility, said, “The new training center is dishwashing and food storage areas point for ISU-Uganda Program staff as they already making a difference. It is raising the • Kitchen garden reach out to farmers, teachers, community profile of CSRL in the eyes of Ugandans and leaders and students. strengthening our relationships with local • Laundry facilities communities and the Ugandan government.” Nearly 100 donors made the new facility possible, • drinking water purification system as well as support from Iowa State’s Senior Vice The 22,000-square foot training center sits on 13 • open office area for staff plus conference President and Provost’s Office. acres that includes a main building with offices for room for 12 the 20 ISU-Uganda Program field staff. The ISU “This was a team effort, with every dollar raised Courtyard is central to the main complex. • Store house reflecting a shared belief in the importance and Students eat meals and hold meetings in the • mudroom for storing boots and field tools value of this project,” said ISU President Wendy multipurpose Winterhof Commons. They gather Wintersteen. “We are providing knowledge, skills, informally to study, reflect and get to know each • Livestock, grain handling, crop and resources and, most importantly, hope — hope to other better in the Wintersteen Lounge and woodlot demonstration areas people who are working to overcome some of the Waggoner Terrace. Miller Hall is a 48-bed student most challenging conditions life can offer.” dormitory — and now the first time that service- • Basketball court and junior soccer field for community outreach

• Security wall with lighting, guard shelter and a security gate

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In 2010, Dennis Lutwama joined the ISU- Uganda Program as a research assistant working on a grain amaranth research project in the Kamuli District. Today, he is the service learning and school garden projects officer. 8 Dennis’s official duties include planning for school gardens, creating work plans 10 and budgets and marketing produce from the school gardens. He helps implement joint projects and is a leader in establishing school gardens as outdoor learning laboratories and a force for rural development and food security.

But Dennis’ efforts go far beyond official

2018 donor impact report 2018 donor impact duties. In some ways, he serves as a guardian angel.

As a highly respected and well-known community member, he looks out for the children of Kamuli. “Some students completed school because he helped to pay school fees from resources made possible by the gardens,” said Dorothy Masinde, associate director of nutrition education for CSRL. a in bl e R ur l L i ve lih oo ds Gail Nonnecke, associate director for education programs for CSRL, agrees. “Looking across the incredible gardens at the primary schools, I realize all of the hard work, integration and effort put into the gardens by Ce nt e r f o S ust the ISU-UP staff, including Dennis Lutwama. The gardens, poultry and their programs have transformed the schools and demonstrate new ideas.” Photo: Dorothy Masinde income program sustains families and communities WHAT YOU MADE POSSIBLE IN 2018 Visit Eseza Babirye’s home in the village of baskets and other items like necklaces, tablecloths • Expansion of craft programs to benefit students, youth and community members Naluwoli, and you will be met by a modest brick and bags,” Eseza said. “I have used money from my house with an adjacent bathroom and other craft business to buy a plot of land, build a house • Poultry-keeping instruction, benefitting improvements in progress. Eseza — a 28-year-old and buy a bicycle.” the community and the school lunch mother of three — is proud that she owns her program home, and she credits her involvement with the Community Income Generation Innovations is just CSRL Community Income Generation Innovations one way that CSRL’s ISU-Uganda Program impacts • nec programs on nutrition, health, and sanitation were taught to youth in the 9 program for making that possible. communities. Poultry keeping is taught at the entrepreneurship program

primary schools, with the eggs used for school Co mmunity inc o m e g n r a By helping mothers create sustainable sources of lunches. Animal husbandry is taught across all • primary school gardens helped support income, the Community Income Generation programs. Craft programs for Nutrition Education the school lunch program Innovations program enables women to ensure their Centers mothers are open to in-school and out-of- own livelihoods and improve nutrition and health school youth and other community members, • new ideas such as leguminous cover crop rotation were taught in the garden for their children. Craft production, sewing projects building sources of income and self-confidence. program and soap-making are some of the program’s One young girl who had made craft baskets for sale income-generating activities. subsequently attended the Youth Entrepreneurship • the gardens provided an outdoor Training Workshop and was later named the goalie laboratory for students Eseza joined the youth entrepreneurship program of her team during a soccer match after the in 2015 at the urging of Moureen Mbeiza, CSRL’s workshop. • gardens provided entrepreneurial and ag enterprises for participating youth t e s inn ova agronomist and land use coordinator. Eseza began growing and selling eggplants and tomatoes and Eseza plans to buy three more lots and construct then received two piglets, the offspring from which rental houses, pay school fees for her children and she was able to give to other community members. start a business. “Without ISU-UP, I wouldn’t have ti o ns taken care of my family’s needs or achieved my In 2016, she learned about the crafts team at goals,” she said. “Thank you for loving us.” With Your Continued Support Naluwoli. “I decided to go and learn how to make • continue to teach young mothers about sustainable income sources

• Help young women provide better health and nutrition for their families

• continue to expand the reach of craft and other entrepreneurial programs

• increase garden production, thereby increase income and support for the school lunch program

• Increase educational opportunities through the gardens and livestock programs

• Increase community stability by educating and supporting its members

Photo: Brian Nonnecke Livestock Multiplies Reach

10 Livestock production is “If a woman farmer just raises corn, she is in serious trouble when there is a growing, thanks to CSRL drought. But if she has livestock, she can use it to pay for food, medicine and other necessities.” 12 • eleven farmers received piglets and training in 2016, — Max Rothschild, CSRL livestock programs associate director and in 2018, the project was extended to include 10 additional farmers.

• in 2017, 130 Kuroiler chickens were distributed among 15 Nutrition Education Center

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• in 2017, 10 Mubende goat bucks — each mating with 10 female goats per month — were distributed in Kiconco.

• in 2017, 11 school children each received three ducks. In 2018, two female ducks from

a in bl e R ur l L i ve lih oo ds their offspring were given to two additional students. Ce nt e r f o S ust Livestock continues to make a real Saida Nakiyimba, also from Kicono, has been WHAT YOU MADE POSSIBLE IN 2018 keeping goats since 2010. While at the Kicono difference in peoples’ lives in the Kamuli Nutrition Education Center, she received livestock • the number of CSRL-trained pig farmers District. training. In 2017, she received a Mubende buck, nearly doubled, from 11 farmers in 2016 to 21 farmers in 2018. chosen because of its tolerance to tick diseases and A consistent source of both nutrition and income, for its high rate of siring twins and triplets. Saida’s • Two additional students received ducks livestock plays a critical role in advancing the buck has so far produced seven kids. She has sold from offspring distributed in 2017 quality of life for Kamuli District families. CSRL’s seven goats and used the income to support her • Continued support through livestock livestock program leverages Iowa State’s expertise in household and to buy a heifer. 11 animal husbandry, agribusiness and extension to training, treatment and vaccinations

help the region’s poorest farmers — mostly women While at Namasagali Primary School, Nawaigulo L i ve st o ck int e gr a — start and run successful livestock enterprises. Bayani received three ducks. Now 17, Nawaigulo has sold half of the ducks hatched from her original “Livestock provides income, animal-source protein trio, and, with the help of her parents, purchased a and manure for fertilizer, and are agricultural female goat. With Your Continued Support banks that provide real resilience,” said Max • continue to distribute livestock from Rothschild, the associate director for livestock In Kisaikye village, Michael Malikwe and his wife farmers supported by CSRL’s livestock programs for CSRL. Bamwete Doreen received piglets, some materials program ti o n : multiplying r ea ch for construction of a piggery house and a three- While most farmers in developing countries grow month supply of pig feed. Their sow farrowed seven • continue to train Kamuli residents in crops, livestock is what really moves communities piglets, and by selling some, they were able to buy sustainable livestock procedures toward long-term food security. Collaborating with materials to upgrade their facilities. Because of the • continue to identify and train new experts from Iowa State and Makerere University, distance between their house and a water source, livestock producers in the district CSRL has successfully integrated poultry, pigs, and Michael received and installed a 6,000-liter above- goats into the region’s farming and school activities. ground water tank. Michael’s experience is Diversity in farming is the key to sustainability in demonstrating to his neighbors the advantages of the Kamuli district. this kind of watering system, which, in turn, strengthens and helps sustain their community. “If a woman farmer just raises corn, she is in serious trouble when there is a drought. But if she has livestock, she can use it to pay for food, medicine and other necessities,” Rothschild said.

Florence Onyango, a mother from Kiconco, received five hens and two cocks, which have produced many eggs plus 40 additional chickens. Florence has been able to feed eggs to her family and has sold some of the chickens to pay school fees for her children. She’s also been able to buy a goat, and is hoping to increase her goat herd.

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Ce nt e r f o S ust ISU is implementing a storage system that uses 55-gallon, hermetically sealed plastic containers, which eliminate oxygen and asphyxiate weevils. The system is 100% effective in controlling weevils. Imagine Losing Half WHAT YOU MADE POSSIBLE IN 2018 • Full-time postharvest technology specialist hired to oversee maize-handling of All the Crops You Harvest and other crop storage initiatives • teachers and cooks trained in proper maize drying and storage

That can be the reality for many small farmers in and the next step is to discover ways to fund and • Mold- and insect-free maize sourced from the Kamuli District. Up to 50 percent of the grain conduct trials in Uganda. collaborating farmers for use in NECs and 13 harvest — including maize — can be lost in storage schools because of mold and insect infestation. Aflatoxin In 2018, ISU-UP launched a postharvest outreach Po sth a r • Smallholder farmers trained in proper produced by molds can make maize unsafe. program. This program includes postharvest 15 practices training for farmers, a microfinance postharvest practices

“Often, farmers don’t have a good way to dry their program to help farmers purchase storage • Microloan program launched, allowing ve st o utr ea ch pr gr a m maize, they don’t have a good way to tell when the containers and sourcing safe maize to ensure that smallholder farmers to purchase hermetic grain is dry enough to store and they don’t have a infants and children in Nutrition Education Centers grain storage silos good way to store it,” said Tom Brumm, an associate and schools receive uncontaminated food. director for CSRL. To help create, guide and implement the program, Not having safe, reliable storage methods means ISU-UP hired Thomas Buyinza as a postharvest that many farmers are forced to sell maize technology specialist. Buyinza oversees grain With Your Continued Support immediately after harvest; often for low prices. storage and safety, implementing strategies and According to Brumm, these losses can be the working with smallholder farmers to reduce • continue to monitor for aflatoxin and difference between having the funds to pay their postharvest losses. mitigate potential problems children’s school fees or going hungry. • Further develop community outreach “Maize serves as a staple crop globally and as a programs for improved postharvest In response, ISU is implementing a storage system means of food security for many communities, practices to increase the safety of the grain. Fifty-five gallon, including Kamuli,” said Rachael Barnes, an ISU hermetically sealed plastic containers eliminate student who helped conduct postharvest loss • Develop feed and grain training programs oxygen and asphyxiate weevils. ISU results research in 2017. “By focusing on the community’s at CSRL’s new training center in Kamuli demonstrate 100 percent effectiveness of weevil perception of mold and aflatoxins in maize, the • continue to improve maize quality for the control in the sealed barrels. ISU also has ISU-Uganda Program can enhance the district’s feeding programs at the schools preliminary results for strategies to control mold, health and well-being.”

all Photos: Brian Nonnecke Creating Ag Entrepreneurs

14 When the Youth 2013 marked the beginning of CSRL’s Youth Before the Youth Institute, two mentoring Entrepreneurship Program Entrepreneurship Program in the Kamuli sessions were held at each of the schools, (YEP) began in 2013, the very with each session averaging 20 students. District. Five years and one new facility Students were instructed on how to conduct 16 first program was raising broiler chickens. later, the first Youth Institute was held online research, how to use relevant case studies to discuss a topic and how to make a during the summer of 2018. The skills acquired from visual presentation. this program were a The Youth Entrepreneurship Program trains In July 2018, 50 students and teachers source of livelihood for Ugandan youth to be agricultural attended the first Youth Institute at the new some students, including entrepreneurs. Gaining practical skills in crop Mpirigiti Rural Training Centre. They took Kipwapwa Derrick, who and livestock management, marketing and part in interpersonal reflection sessions, was not able to continue his leadership, participants become more self- bonding, open discussions and inspirational education. Derrick used the reliant, which sets the stage for future story-telling. Twenty-four students from ISU 2018 donor impact report 2018 donor impact skills he obtained working economic opportunities. and Makerere served as mentors to the with broilers at Namasagali schools during the event. The local students’ College into a job at a large The purpose of the 2018 Youth Institute was presentations were observed and scored, and poultry farm in Wakiso; to focus that mission both inward and awards were made at the end of the day. The even without a certificate outward: improving collaboration with day concluded with a soccer match between participating schools by inviting them to the schools and their ISU-UP mentors. in poultry management. research and present perspectives on four Derrick parlayed that job into challenges in the district. The effects of the Institute continue to be felt an opportunity to manage even after the last goal was scored. a wholesale business in Eight schools from subcounties of Namasagali, Participating schools requested continued Rubaga, Kampala. Butansi and the Kamuli Municipality were collaboration and extended mentoring, and a in bl e R ur l L i ve lih oo ds selected to participate. Each school prepared are eager to participate in future events. Now Derrick has saved up its students to discuss four topics: the role of enough money to start his cooperatives in agricultural development; “It made me realize our impact goes beyond own business selling shoes. how to grow agribusiness beyond local the communities in which we work,” said Thanks to the efforts of communities; information and Dorothy Masinde, associate director of CSRL. students like Derrick, YEP’s communications technology in agriculture Ce nt e r f o S ust impact extends far beyond decision-making; and how to grow from subsistence to commercial farming. the communities it serves. 15 First-Ever Youth Institute t r o pp E IN 2018 raining held in the BL I from eight ural T SS O nstitute pirigiti R outh I outh ADE P nstitute mentoring opportunities r Continued Su collaboration among among collaboration outh I ou h Y YOU M AT 2019 Y ontinued training in practicalontinued in training ontinued opportunities for collaboration entre he creation of similarevents and he first-ever Y raining in crop in raining and livestock mproved ncreased it H agricultural skills 50 students teachers and and discussing, researching, schools networking C and mentoringand opportunities participating schools newly opened M managementskills I c t • • • c • t • • I • W • t W • A ke c onne hotos: Brian N hotos: all P Broadening Students’ Vision

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