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13/09/2025

Our NTUUTU Fresh sticker is here!

You'll soon see it on our fresh golden berries – a superfruit powered by AgriPlanet Africa to promote healthy eating and empower farmers. 🌱

What do you think of the new design? We'd love your feedback!

12/08/2025

Celebrating a milestone from three weeks ago at the Uganda Climate Innovation Fund awards gala!

We were honored to receive recognition for our Climate Smart Jobs Project, expanding golden berry production support to farmers in Kiryandongo refugee settlement and host communities.

This award reflects our commitment to climate-smart agriculture that builds resilience for vulnerable populations while creating sustainable livelihoods.

From defending land rights in Kigulya to expanding opportunities in Kiryandongo, we continue proving that community-centered development works.

Grateful to Uganda Climate Innovation Fund for recognizing that supporting farmers means supporting entire communities.

Watch Ahumuza Ignatius Alinaitwe Cleofash accept this important recognition!

12/08/2025

Honored to receive an award today from Uganda Climate Innovation Fund's Climate Smart Jobs Project!

This recognition enables us to expand golden berry production support to farmers in Kiryandongo refugee settlement and host communities.

Climate-smart agriculture creates resilience for the most vulnerable populations while building sustainable livelihoods.

From defending land rights in Kigulya to expanding opportunities in Kiryandongo, this is what community-centered development looks like.

Grateful for partners who recognize that supporting farmers means supporting entire communities.

12/08/2025

LAND RIGHTS CRISIS UPDATE

Three months ago, everything changed for 100+ farming families in Kigulya Ward, Uganda. Government forces arrived with military escorts, claiming their titled land for "conservation" by destroying crops, digging trenches, and ignoring constitutional rights.

But this community refused to stay silent.

From Crisis to Organized Resistance:
📍 May 3: Immediate radio response with village elders
📍 May 2025: 500 people marched peacefully to petition officials
📍 July 2: Formed Kigulya Private Land Protection Alliance (KPLPA)
📍 July 8: Formal petition submitted to Uganda's President
📍 Today: Still fighting for justice

The Truth Behind "Conservation": Since 2015, officials quietly offered alternative land to residents. By 2023, mineral deposit rumors circulated. Now "conservation" arrives with armed force.

Eucalyptus plantations don't need military escorts. Resource extraction does.

This isn't just Uganda's story. It's a global pattern of land grabbing disguised as environmental protection.

Read our full investigation and learn how YOU can stand with Kigulya...

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May 3rd, 2025, began like any other day in Kigulya Ward, Masindi District, Uganda. Farmers tended their crops, families prepared meals, children played. By evening, everything had changed. That morning, the National Forestry Authority (NFA) arrived with military escorts, dug trenches across private....

15/05/2025

Golden Berries & Golden Opportunities in Masindi

Today marks the start of our second golden berry harvest season—and the joy is radiant. At our Family Resource Center, young girls in our agricultural training program are learning hands-on skills: planting, harvesting, sorting, and preparing golden berries for market.

These golden nuggets are organically grown on the fertile slopes of Kigulya Hill—a place of beauty and nourishment, now threatened by unsustainable practices like glyphosate use and deforestation from the National Forestry Authority.

Still, Kigulya Hill gives. And we rise with it.

From farm to future, this harvest is a living story of resilience, knowledge, and community.
Get your taste buds ready—our health-conscious clients are in for a sweet, tangy, and nutritious delight!