Empowering Africa’s Food Heroes
– From Soil to Plate
Restoring Uganda’s Food Diversity through Practical Education in Nutrition and Regenerative Farming
Despite Africa’s rich biodiversity, staples like wheat, maize, and rice dominate local markets—undermining nutrition, soil health, and cultural food traditions. Centuries of colonization disrupted indigenous food systems, replacing diverse, nourishing crops with foreign staples. Over a billion people across the continent cannot afford a healthy diet, while 30% of children face stunting. Agrochemicals and hybrid seeds from large corporations continue to displace traditional crops, degrading soils and deepening food insecurity.
BODY&SOIL, based in Uganda in partnership with RUCID Organic College, is building scalable, hands-on education models to reconnect farmers, schools, and youth with Africa’s heritage foods. From soil to plate, we aim to restore biodiversity, nourish communities, and strengthen livelihoods—through a grassroots, practical approach that combines the latest research with indigenous knowledge.
The Vision
At BODY&SOIL, we envision a future where school meals across Africa are diverse, nourishing, and rooted in local knowledge; where farmers grow indigenous crops using regenerative methods; and where communities thrive on food that heals both people and the land. This is born from their strength so that people are freed from the donor syndrome that limits local independence and growth.
We believe that shifting diets—beginning with children and youth—can transform public health, regenerate soils, and restore cultural pride. By replacing monotonous staples like maize and beans with nutritious alternatives grounded in local traditions, we empower individuals and communities to reclaim their food sovereignty. In this future, preventable diseases become rare, and local crops are celebrated as the foundation of thriving health and well-being.
This transformation begins with small, joyful steps: a new recipe tested in school kitchens, a seed planted with care, and a farmer gaining the knowledge to regenerate the land. As people embrace the power of local foods, we not only change what’s on their plates, but also what grows in the fields and what reaches the markets—building a future of healthier diets, thriving climate-resilient ecosystems, and sustainable livelihoods.
What We Do
At BODY&SOIL, we work on the ground in Uganda to shift diets from monotonous staples to diverse, nourishing meals—starting in community schools and with students at our organic agriculture college. Together with children, their parents, teachers, and youth, we co-create meals that can replace maize and beans, sparking excitement around diverse, local foods that restore health, enrich the soil, and celebrate culture.
With a passionate team of local experts, our holistic approach is rooted in hands-on, practical learning: we teach agroecology, hygienic food processing, and cooking for nutrition through real-life experience—in gardens and kitchens. Through our innovative, energy-saving kitchen, ongoing school menu testing, and a growing local seed bank, we connect sustainable farming with nutrition in ways that are tangible and transformative. One small step at a time.
We are currently building scalable and inclusive education—both online and offline—to make this practical knowledge accessible to many. By changing what’s on the plate, we change what grows in the field.
Get Involved
BODY&SOIL believes that many of the answers to Africa’s food and health challenges already exist — in the fields, kitchens, and communities across the continent.
We are looking for experts, farmers, nutritionists, and food processors from Africa who are already working with regenerative methods and culturally rooted nutrition solutions. If you’ve developed approaches that are working — whether in the soil, during harvest, or on the plate — we want to learn from you. Our goal is to become a living center of practical, holistic education in farming and food, where solutions are shared, adapted, and passed on.
We're also welcoming those who want to help us grow — whether through donations, partnerships, or amplifying our work. Your support helps us build an inclusive space for education, innovation, and healing — from soil to plate.
Let’s reconnect people, land, and food — together.
“It only seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela
Contact
Drop us a line!
E-Mail
hello@bodyandsoil.africa
Telephon
+256 774 427 463 OR +49 177 6222462