Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) Playing a Key Role in Promoting and Preserving Pulses
Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB) on pulses, especially beans and peas of different varieties, has proven crucially essential to...
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Naume Kalinaki
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
Using Cross-generational Dialogue to engage Youths in conserving and promoting the NUS
Neglected and Underutilized Species (NUS) play an essential role in strengthening Uganda’s food and nutritional security and buffer...
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Rashida Kabanda
- Dec 6, 2021
- 2 min
Demonstration gardens enhancing mindset change and uptake of Ecological Organic Practices.
Globally, there is unprecedented increase in the use of agricultural inputs, and particularly inorganic fertilizers, pesticides and...
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Naume Kalinaki
- Nov 17, 2021
- 3 min
Using the NUS Networks to preserve and share indigenous seeds
In the current global food systems, giant corporations have gained control of the seed market and seeds are now commercialised most of...
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David Oming
- Jun 24, 2021
- 3 min
Small-scale Women Farmers Devise Mechanisms to Combat Desertification and Drought
In Uganda, forest cover loss has increased to an estimated 200,000 hectares annually and about 10% of the population in the Southern and...
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esaff uganda
- Apr 22, 2021
- 4 min
Agroecology can protect Mother Earth and even do more.
The Earth, which is about 29% covered with land and the remaining 71% is covered with water, is the third planet from the Sun and the...
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Laurine Musoki
- Mar 12, 2021
- 2 min
KilimoMart launches a warehouse in Kampala
Access to the agriculture market is still a challenge for most small-scale farmers, especially women in rural areas. This exposes them to...
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Andrew Adem
- Mar 10, 2021
- 4 min
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY Denouncing gender inequality and raising awareness on its impact
This year's International Women's Day is like no other. Despite the world coming to a halt in many ways because of COVID-19, agriculture...
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Andrew Adem
- Dec 5, 2020
- 2 min
Agroecology equals healthy soil
Soil is one of the main resources of the biosphere and essential factor in the production of crops as well as sustainability for animals....
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Ronald Bagaga
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Organic certification still a myth to small scale farmers
In Uganda there has been an increase in the number of organic farmers over the last 15 years. Between 2010 and 2017, the number of...
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Rashida Kabanda
- Oct 22, 2020
- 3 min
Consumption of Organic Products has greatly increased during the time of COVID 19
The global demand for organic foods from Uganda has increased with the organically produced foodstuffs worth at least 200 million dollars...
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Rashida Kabanda
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
The National Organic Agriculture Policy set to reduce degradation of ecosystems
Uganda's agriculture system is by default largely organic due to the very minimal use of external inputs like inorganic fertilizers and...
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Regina Kayoyo
- Sep 30, 2020
- 3 min
Mitigating Food Loss and Waste Amidst COVID-19 in Uganda
With over 2.5 million food producers country-wide, Government stringent COVID-19 mitigation and containment measures like; transport and...
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Ronald Bagaga
- Jun 29, 2020
- 4 min
Floods in Kisoro and Kasese districts causing hunger and desperation among small-scale farmers
Kasese and Kisoro districts were hit by floods this month with devastating effects to small scale farmers, including destroying crop...
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Rashidah Namatovu
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
International Women's Day - Standing with disadvantaged rural women small-scale farmers in Uganda
Whereas women are the backbone of development of the rural and national economy as they comprise an estimated 76% of Uganda’s...
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Rashida Kabanda
- Jun 29, 2020
- 3 min
KILIMOMART APPLICATION LAUNCH: Fronting ICT to boost trade in Organic Agriculture products in EAC
The largest proportion of the East African Community (EAC) population directly depend on agriculture for livelihood and most of the food...
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Ronald Bagaga
- Jun 4, 2020
- 3 min
Agroecology for Climate Justice and Food Sovereignty. SSFs challenge the government to Act Now
African countries continue to increasingly face a climate crisis with vast threats to agriculture and food production. Intergovernmental...
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Andrew Adem
- Apr 3, 2020
- 2 min
ONLINE CONFERENCE : Impact of the COVID-19 on small-scale farming, food security and sovereignty
Background The people of East Africa are largely small scale farmers with a significant role in food production and the agriculture...
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Nancy Mugimba
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
STATEMENT_National Secretariat in Kampala will be closed
Kampala, Uganda 23rd March 2020 Late last year China discovered a new virus that has since moved to more than 128 countries in the World...
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Ronald Bagaga
- Feb 26, 2020
- 1 min
Small-scale farmers in Amuru and Gulu petition local government leaders
Since 2018, small-scale farmers in Amuru and Gulu districts have been engaging their local leaders over the few extension workers most...
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