Integrated Seed Sector Development (ISSD Plus)

Improved food & nutrition security, and agricultural economic development

COUNTRY/REC Uganda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (WCDI)
2 Ministry of Agriculture, Animal industries and Fisheries (MAAIF)
3 National Agricultural Research organization (NARO) and its Zonal Agricultural Research Development Institutions (ZARDI)
4 Local Sees Business (LSB) and Out-Scaling Partner (OSP) organizations
5 Private seed Sector/Vegetable breeding companies and their Ugandan representatives
6 Smallholder farmers including women and youth
7 Netherlands

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 12,000,000.00 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 12,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

Improved food & nutrition security, and agricultural economic development

Project Objectives

increase food and nutrition security as well as a vibrant, pluralistic and market-oriented seed sector

Project Outputs

Smallholder farmers increase productivity from use of quality seed for crop production

Local Seed Businesses (LSBs) increase QDS Production and Availability

Vegetable growers increased productivity and income using high input-high output production a systems

The ISSD intervention addresses the constraints to productivity and high production costs by promoting the use of advanced vegetable seed and contributing to activities through three complimentary work packages

Quality Declared Seed (QDS) Institutionally embedded

Increased availability of quality assured Early Generation Seed (EGS) of high quality

Seed sector challenges innovatively addressed and seed sector knowledge embedded

Quality Declared Seed (QDS) Institutionally embedded

Project activities

increase productivity, income and resilience

Strengthen seed sector institutions and environment

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Households of Farmer who is increased productivity, income and resilience 300000
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system