We engage with a total of over 1000 farmers across the greater Mubende and Kakumiro regions. These supply us with agricultural produce through village agents whereby we directly deal with 5 village agents and indirectly with 10 agents. We supply our goods to the different schools, and organizations that export maize grains and beans to Kenya and other East African countries that is Diners Group Limited, Prosho Investment Limited, Munta College Bombo, and Royal Giant Mityana among others.
We ensure fair and positive relations between farmer and the company. Farmers always receive a fair and sustainable price for their product covers at a minimum cost of products and reasonable premium for value added organic production. This is used as a community fund for local development projects such as education providing water and farming materials
FAP works to bring economic opportunities to the people and places we serve. We monitor the impact our efforts have on the Greater Mubende and we’re pleased to share the results we create.
The Feed Africa Programme Ltd (FAP) supports Ugandan communities, authorities, and institutions to contribute to the food security and nutrition of the population, with emphasis on the most vulnerable. In so doing, the top management is cognizant of regulatory policies and ensures strict compliance to ensure sustainable welfare of both the working team, our customers and the community at large, through;
Support to local farmers
The Company supports local farmer by for example providing credit finance to over 2000 farmers. This has boosted the farmer’s ability to increase on farmer production since they buy good inputs like seeds, fertilizers and ploughing on time thus increasing their yield per hectare especially for maize and beans.
Support to staff training and employee benefits
The company implements capacity building and compensation and benefits for all employees to attract and retain quality talent. For example, expectant mothers take 3 months leave after birth while fathers take 10 days after receiving a baby as opposed to 60 days and 4 days respectively as stipulated in the national labor laws.
Labor and human rights
The Company has an HR manual and other policies which ensure human rights protection, and policy guidelines on disciplining the culprits. These policies include a sexual harassment policy, a whistleblower’s policy, and a Gender Equity and inclusion policy.
Staff health and safety
The Company introduced a Workers’ compensation policy, a form of insurance to handle accident-related issues. It has signed a memorandum of understanding with Rubaga Hospital to treat all accident-related cases; Personal protective equipment is provided to all staff in field areas.
Annual feeding programmes
We organize charity feeding programmes to different communities on festivities like Christmas and New year’s parties. This is targeted towards the most vulnerable of the communities, we provide free food, tarpaulins to farmers and offer discounted loans for a period of time.
We focus on maintaining a healthy and functional ecosystem, better implementation and further strengthening of current environmental priorities in climate change; nature and biodiversity; natural resource use and waste; environment health and quality of life. Whilst these remain important priorities, managing the links between them is paramount.
Feed Africa Programme Limited(FAP)
We are on a mission to be a community development financial institution that: provides substantial financial services to a number of low-wealthy people and communities with resources needed to achieve a better quality of life that is financially self-sufficient and sustainable.
