What is the Hunger Season?

The Hunger Season, also known as the lean season, is the dangerous period of time when the food and profits from the harvest have been used up and rural farming communities struggle with poverty, malnutrition, and other afflictions stemming from a lack of food security. 

The Solution: Innovative Rural Food Preservation

Preserve International seeks to eliminate food waste through the provision of innovative, rurally-minded food preservation technology and training to allow farmers to preserve the life of their crops from post-harvest through the lean season. 

Staying away from added chemicals and preservatives, we utilize food dehydration,  water-bath canning, and improved grain storage techniques to preserve the life of produce from days to months, and even years.

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The Solution: Empowering Women

Acknowledging the often disproportionate effects of poverty and hunger on women, as well as the seemingly insurmountable odds faced by female farmers throughout the developing world, we seek to empower women in the agricultural sector not only through food preservation, but by providing job and educational opportunities as well as facilitating grassroots support networks to help women thrive. 

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Where We Work

Northern Uganda

Agriculture is the backbone of Uganda’s economy, employing over 70% of the population and responsible for over 25% of national GDP. Because most Ugandans live in rural areas and practice farming, increasing livelihoods in this area is critical for reducing food insecurity and boosting prosperity in the country. 

Although agriculture has enormous potential to transform the Ugandan economy, it does face many challenges in ensuring optimum productivity and profitability for its farmers. 

One of the key issues faced by small scale Ugandan farms is food waste, with many farmers wasting between 40% and 75% of their annual harvest. Not only is this waste detrimental to the health of farming communities who could benefit from a year long supply of nourishing food, but it also limits the financial growth potential of farmers who lack a stable source of income for many months out of the year. 

What are we Doing to Help?

Preserve International seeks to mitigate the effects of the lean season by providing farmers with innovative food preservation technology and training that will allow them not only to preserve enough food for their families to last through the planting season, but also provide them with a constant source of income through the sale of preserved foods throughout the year. 

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Reducing food waste to end global hunger

Did you know that in a world where 1 in 5 people go hungry over 30% of all food produced for human consumption is wasted? For small scale farmers in developing rurual communities this can mean up to 75% of each harvest is left to spoil in the field or immediately post -harvest.

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Your generosity makes a tangible difference in our ability to continue our important work. 100% of every dollar donated goes towards our programs empowering women small-scale farmers in and around the BidiBidi Refugee Settlement in northern Uganda.