Ahumuza co-founded Agri Planet Africa, a social enterprise that provides nutritional support and agricultural training to schools, refugees, and host communities of refugee settlements through sustainable and regenerative agriculture.
Agri Planet Africa began in 2015 as Art Planet Academy after Ahumuza and his Co-Founder Alinaitwe Cleofash became frustrated by the largely theoretical way agriculture was taught in Ugandan schools. Ahumuza returned to his former schools to volunteer, establishing school gardens that gave students practical agricultural skills and improved their school meals, supplementing typical staple meals with fresh, vitamin-rich vegetables. This inspired many parents to replicate similar gardens at home. Ahumuza later evolved the organisation’s approach to focus on sustainable agriculture suited to the climate-vulnerable, small-plot conditions of refugee settlements and host communities, who he teaches to grow the high yield golden berry.
Agri Planet Africa has worked with 615 schools in total and served 92,250 children with nutritious meals through school gardens that supplemented and diversified daily food provision. Through the organisation’s support, the golden berry is now grown by 35 farmers, all of whom have also been provided with organic fertiliser made from golden berry husks and natural plant juice pesticide extracts. During the COVID-19 lockdowns, the organisation launched its Agri-Entertainment Programme, partnering with local musicians and radio stations across Western Uganda to broadcast songs promoting sustainable agricultural practices. It also established Agri Planet Foundation Inc. USA to raise funds and support the work of Agri Planet Africa.
After attending the 2018 Summit in The Hague, Ahumuza connected with fellow Ugandan Ambassadors, one of whom linked him to an early buyer for Agri Planet Africa’s produce. He also partnered with an Ambassador working in tourism to introduce agritourism visits to the farms he supports. Subsequently, Ahumuza was selected to serve on One Young World’s inaugural Indigenous Youth Council, where he worked on the Indigenous Strategy. He has since co-founded the One Young World Ambassadors Chapter of Uganda.
"The One Young World Indigenous Council was an amazing experience for me because it connected me to likeminded people across the world and gave me an opportunity to learn about how different Indigenous peoples were solving the challenges that they were having. I borrowed lessons from them and saw how we could replicate that in our local communities.”
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