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Beekeeping: how to keep bees and process honey
Using the story of a beekeeper in South Western Uganda, who started with three traditional bee hives ten years ago and now has more than 100 hives of different types, this brochure introduces to the advantages and the basic techniques of beekeeping and honey processing. It gives an overview of...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Making sweet potato chips and flour
Sweet potato is a popular food in many parts of Eastern Africa. It is drought tolerant, hardy and can grow in marginal areas, thus contributing to improved food security. The young leaves and vines can be consumed as vegetables or fed to livestock. In some communities in Eastern Africa, sweet...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Cotton culture
The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) aims to enhance the contribution of agricultural research to sustainable agricultural productivity, economic growth, food security and poverty eradication. It aims to do this through the generation and dissemination of appropriate technologies, knowledge and information. The following technology promotes good practices for cotton culture...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Fish pond layout and construction
Fishponds are not just a hole in the ground containing water. They are unnatural water environments that farmers must manage in order to produce profitable fish harvests. Ponds should provide a good environment for fish to live in, all requirements for fish to live a healthy life, grow well and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Make a living through fish farming with a focus on Tilapia
This practice gives details on how to set up a tilapia fish farm, and recommendations for fish harvesting and storage. Fish are popular sources of protein and white-meat in many parts of Eastern Africa. However, the gap between supply and demand for fish is widening. Almost all natural fish stocks...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Selection of site and water quality testing for fishpond
The fishponds are not just a hole in the ground containing water. They are unnatural water environments that farmers must manage in order to produce profitable fish harvests. Ponds should provide a good environment for fish to live in, all requirements for fish to live a healthy life, grow well...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Improving fodder by incorporating legumes in the cropping system
This practice gives examples of different legumes that can be incorporated as livestock fodder to improve livestock productivity. Detail is given on the importance and use of legumes in terms of their nutritional content and their positive impact on soil quality. Information is provided on how to plant them and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Тематическое исследование
A pathway to food security
Tackling the Issue of Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda
Amplifying the voices of women farmers is proving an effective way to help tackle gender inequality and promote agroecology, helping small-scale farmers take back power over their land.
Uganda
2020 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
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Producing solar-dried fruit and vegetables for micro and small-scale rural enterprise development: business profitability
The preservation of fruit and vegetables by simply sun drying is practised widely throughout arid and semi-arid regions, for example in Uganda. The use of low-cost solar drying technologies can significantly improve product quality. This provides practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprise, particularly in rural areas, and creates employment for...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Тематическое исследование
A PATHWAY TO FOOD SECURITY Tackling the Issue of Land Rights as a Pathway to Food Security in Uganda
Amplifying the voices of women farmers is proving an effective way to help tackle gender inequality and promote agroecology, helping small-scale farmers take back power over their land.
In the Adjumani and Amuria districts of Uganda, women are responsible for 75% of agricultural labour. Only 30% have rights over the land...
Uganda
2020 - The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa
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Improved method of preserving hides and skins
Hides and skins are of very little economic and commercial value if they are not well preserved. Particularly in Uganda, Lango Farming System, most hides and skins which are produced, go to waste due to poor preservation practices. Improved methods and advice on how to preserve hides and skins of...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Raising citrus rootstock
Improved citrus varieties are not resistant to soil borne pests and diseases. However, they can be successfully grown if grafted on resistant rootstocks like rough lemon. Rough lemon is quick-growing, drought-resistant, shortens maturity period and is resistant to pests and diseases.
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Producing solar dried fruit and vegetables for micro- and small-scale rural enterprise development: processing aspects
The preservation of fruit and vegetables by simple sun drying is practiced widely throughout arid and semi-arid areas, for example in Uganda. The use of low cost, solar drying technologies, can significantly improve product quality thereby providing practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprise, particularly in rural areas, and creating employment...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Raising Calliandra tree seedlings
This practice describes how Calliandra tree can be planted and grown in Uganda. First starting by seed collection and pre-treatment, then construction of seeds bed, seed sowing, and finally filling of polyethene pots with soil.
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Farmer-herder conflict in sub-Saharan Africa?
This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. We assess the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and review the explanations in the scientific literature, in the light of known issues with long-standing attitudes towards pastoralism and mobile populations....
Chad - Ethiopia - Kenya - Mali - Senegal - Uganda
2020 - International Institute for Environment and Development
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Ecological Organic Agriculture - Rain Water Harvesting
A small scale farmer shows us how she manages to grow crops in a dry area. She harvests rain water which she uses for irrigating the crops. This has helped her to adapt to the effects of climate change.
To learn more about our work on promoting organic agriculture, please...
Uganda
2020 - ESAFF Uganda
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Supplementary feeding for farmed fish
Most fish farmers believe that a fish is a wild animal. They think that once put in pond water, it will survive naturally without adding any food supplement. This has resulted in pond fish taking a long period to reach a reasonable size. Most farmers add manure like cow dung and...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Dryer construction for solar-dried fruit and vegetables production
The preservation of fruit and vegetables by simple sun drying is practiced widely throughout arid and semi-arid areas, for example in Uganda. The use of low cost, solar-drying technologies can significantly improve product quality. This provides practical opportunities for developing small-scale enterprises, particularly in rural areas, and creating employment for...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Sustainable fishery on Lake Victoria: exploitation, gears, fishing methods and management
Fish is important for good nutrition and fishery activities generate income and employment. However, industrial and intensive fishing and also wrong fishing methods deplete fish stocks. In Uganda, the major fishing activities are on Lake Victoria, one of the African great lakes and the second largest in the world. These...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Light attraction method to catch mukene fish on Lake Victoria
Mukene, also called Dagaa or Omena, is found in Lakes Victoria, Kyoga and Nabugabo and in the Victoria Nile. It is among the three most important commercial fish species in Lakes Victoria and Kyoga. The mukene fish is fished by light attraction. Compared to gillnetting, light fishing is relatively new...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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