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Profile: Adding value to fish: Lovin Kobusingye is not just a successful woman entrepreneur in Uganda but an influential voice in shaping pan-African fisheries policies

Lovin Kobusingye is a well-known young woman fish entrepreneur working in Central Uganda’s Wakiso District. For over eight years, she, along with her two partners and over a thousand other fish farmers, has worked on fish processing and value addition. At the same time, she has persistently lobbied the government to support women-led entrepreneurship through an enabling policy framework designed to protect women in fisheries activities both in Uganda and, at a higher level, throughout Africa.

Title of publication: Yemaya ICSF's Newsletter on Gender and Fisheries
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Issue: 61
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Page range: 19
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Author: Nasser Kasozi
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Organization: The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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Year: 2020
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Country/ies: Uganda
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Newsletter article
Content language: English
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