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The intervention aims to increase climate change resilience among slum dwellers in Kampala, Uganda. It does so by piloting an innovative approach to improving food security through intensive urban farming practices. Currently, urban farming in slums is mostly a low investment - low yield activity, offering little impact on food security for the urban poor. However, the applicants believe that urban farming has a much larger potential to address food security if high-yield methods such as hydroponics are introduced, and if the lack of space for growing food in slums can be solved by utilising rooftops and/or walls. In order to test these assumptions, the intervention will conduct farming tests and business modelling in a real life scenario and in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders including development partners, slum community members, municipal staff, local politicians and commercial farming / hydroponic specialists.