Low productivity is one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda’s maize industry. But smallholder farmers still won’t adopt improved seed.
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Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
Kampala, like many other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, has a critical data gap on the scale and magnitude of air pollution.
Refugees invest a great amount of effort in solving disputes among themselves, and with surrounding host community members.
Many of the tools needed to tap into the potential of Africa’s livestock sector exist already.
Involving senior health science students in the everyday practice helped address the workload in facilities, improved quality of patient care, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
The flooding has affected water resources, agriculture and food security, health and sanitation, fisheries, and energy and infrastructure.
Peace journalism is more than mediating or preventing conflict. It’s also about the dignity and agency of the affected populations.
We found that air pollution levels in Nairobi increased by 182% over the study period, Kampala by 162% and Addis Ababa by 62%.
The fact that teachers in Uganda’s rural schools weren’t trained in the local language means they can’t teach children in their mother tongue and this leads to poor literacy acquisition.
When protesters strip naked to amplify their political voice, it is often a last resort within very restrictive regimes.
The relationship between the country’s security forces and the civilian population has always been uneasy.
Africa is facing a profound crisis that could set its development back a generation. It needs a solution to its debt problems that doesn’t cripple countries.
Refugee-led organisations in camps and cities in Uganda are at the frontline of the response to COVID-19 response.
Eating locusts is an old strategy used to get food after locusts devastated crops, but things have changed.
The terror group uses the proceeds of criminal activity to support its political agenda.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
International financing for massive infrastructure projects can create new problems for African cities.
Predominant public sentiment remains largely anti-homosexual and overshadows constitutionally guaranteed rights in Africa.
In some communities, over a quarter of the children were misclassified as iron replete whereas they were iron deficient.
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Research associate at African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
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Professor of International Relations, Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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