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Our impact

Proof, not promises.

What has actually changed since 2019, in law, in practice and in people's lives.

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Legal victories for vulnerable women

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Milestones

A timeline of progress.

Where it started, what has been done, and where we are now.

2019

CEFROHT is founded

A handful of lawyers decide the right to food deserves a courtroom, not just a conference.

2022

Learning Centres open

The first agroecology learning centres begin training farmers in Mukono and Kiboga.

2024

The regional push

Work begins on a model agroecology law for the whole East African Community.

2026

Two firsts in one year

Uganda signs its Nutrient Profile Model; the EAC Agroecology Bill reaches EALA.

Stories of impact

Explore our stories

Each one is a single case, campaign or community, written up as a page you can read here or take away as a PDF.

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Story 1Impact Story 1Land restored to a widowfarming in KibogaTHE OPPORTUNITYShe had farmed the same three acres for nineteenyears. After her husband died, relatives produced adocument she had never seen and toldTHE SOLUTIONher to leave. CEFROHT took the case without charge.The court found the transfer defective and restoredthe title. She is farming it still.CEFROHTLand restored to a widow farming in KibogaRead the storyStory 2Impact Story 2Building Uganda’sNutrient Profile ModelTHE OPPORTUNITYThree years of evidence, coalition building andcommittee rooms, ending with a signatureTHE SOLUTIONthat most Ugandans will never hear about and manywill benefit from.CEFROHTBuilding Uganda’s Nutrient Profile ModelRead the storyStory 3Impact Story 3Farmer managed seedsystems take rootTHE OPPORTUNITYHow a community seed bank went from a locked storeroom and a suspicion of illegality to a functioningexchange serving four parishes.CEFROHTFarmer managed seed systems take rootRead the storyStory 4Impact Story 4Fifty defenders, one legalteamTHE OPPORTUNITYWhat it takes to keep track of everyone arrested fora peaceful protest, and why nobody should be left toface a magistrate alone.CEFROHTFifty defenders, one legal teamRead the storyStory 5Impact Story 5Taking the right to foodto EALATHE OPPORTUNITYThe road from five national consultations to acommittee room in Arusha, and what the membersactually asked.CEFROHTTaking the right to food to EALARead the storyStory 6Impact Story 6A market that stores foodsafelyTHE OPPORTUNITYAflatoxin does not announce itself. A vendorassociation, a district health officer and a veryunglamorous conversation about storage changed whatone market sells.CEFROHTA market that stores food safelyRead the storyStory 7Impact Story 7Journalists who reportfood as a rightTHE OPPORTUNITYTwenty reporters, three days, and a shift fromcovering hunger as a weather story to covering it asa governance one.CEFROHTJournalists who report food as a rightRead the storyStory 8Impact Story 8The clinic that came tothe villageTHE OPPORTUNITYWhen the nearest lawyer is a day of travel away, theclinic has to move. What happens when it does.CEFROHTThe clinic that came to the villageRead the story