Black Soldier Fly Farming for food security, value chains and Services

 

Project.

Summary: The Black Soldier Fly project shall be located at Eco Woods Farm in Kinyamaseke community; to unlock the potential of smallholder farmers in rural and urban settings; promoting agriculture for Food Security, Waste Management, Organic Fertilizer and organic Animal Feeds. 

The project shall provide an alternative source of organic fertilizer. Building on the national agenda to enhance agriculture exports, the derived organic fertilizers provide an alternative source of premium low-cost organic fertilizer that serves to enhance overall agricultural yields and production quality. 

At the Eco Woods Farm we would like to establish a Black Soldier Fly Centre and Composting Facility to process waste into Animal Feed and Organic Fertilizer, with economic and environmental benefits. The community surrounding the centre stands to benefit greatly from black soldier fly farming to solve multiple problems they face, due to overpopulation, unemployment, urbanization, and climate change.

The inadequate management of organic waste observed in our communities has become a cause of water and air pollution and yields no valuable by-products such as protein, oil, or frass. Yet, the use of insects to manage organic waste has become a great protein potential and gained more attention to enhance farming in the past years.

The larvae of these insects, particularly BSFL, are voracious eaters of decaying organic matter; hence they have been successfully used to reduce waste streams including livestock (chicken, cow, swine, etc.) manure, human excreta, poultry slaughterhouse waste, mill by-products, food waste, fruits, and vegetable waste, as well as palm oil industry waste.

Volunteer placement:

Ecowoods seeks to recruit volunteers in the field of Marketing & Fundraising, Black Fly Soldier farming, Fish farming and Agri-tourism development, to focus on implementing programs related to their skills and profession. The volunteer will be primarily involved in developing strategies and implementing objectives, which are friendly to practices within the projects of the organisation. These opportunities are challenging yet very rewarding and will be an unforgettable experience for the chosen candidate.

Our target beneficiaries are People living in extreme poverty struggling to earn enough to ensure that their families have enough to eat, get adequate health care and an education. Our livelihoods programmes aim to give them the tools to ensure they are able to earn a sustainable living, helping them to learn new skills, improve the productivity and nutritional value of their crops and set up small businesses to generate more income.

We also need Interns to join our team, as this could be an opportunity for many young people to have an experience abroad. Volunteers and interns should be 18 years and above, willing to adapt to new challenges. The ideal candidate should have an interest in development work.

The volunteer shall be based both at our office and community project in Kasese District at the foot hills of Rwenzori Mountains.

Skills and qualities
we welcome candidates that are interested in new and challenging experiences and can work in dynamic environments. The prospective candidate needs to have any of the following understandings: environmental, education, training, community development, resource mobilisation, and marketing, Fundraising, management, beekeeping, micro enterprise development, a passion for the poor and disadvantaged people. It is desirable that they have an interest in development and community-based work.

 How to apply: To apply for the exciting volunteering vacancies please contact us via ecowoods2023@gmail.com