International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

By Joshua Masinde For two decades, most of the population in northern Uganda lived in internally displaced people’s camps and depended on food aid and other relief emergencies for their livelihoods due to the insurgency by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Over the past few years, Gulu, one of the affected districts, has been on a path to recovery. With the prevailing peace, Geoffrey Ochieng and his wife can now safely till their 4.5 acres of land to grow maize and other staples to feed their family and sell the produce to meet other household needs. However, farmers in this…