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South Sudanese Refugee In Palorinya Settlement Embracing Agroecology To Promote Community Resilience To Climate Change
The on-and-off civil conflicts and the political instability in South Sudan have led to the largest ongoing refugee crisis in Africa. In the Palorinya refugee settlement in Obongi district, the West Nile sub-region is one the biggest settlements where a large number of them have been resettled. While here, they face...
Uganda
2023 - Knowledge Centre for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Africa (KCOA)
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The transformative role of agriculture in refugee settings
Amplifying the voices of refugees and host communities
Forced displacement has reached a scale not seen since records began. It has not only increased to an unprecedented level, but so too has its average duration. Latest reports indicate that over 110 million people are currently estimated to be forcibly displaced, and two in three refugees are projected to...
Kenya - South Sudan - Uganda
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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The East and Southern Africa Forest Observatory (OFESA)
OFESA Is a regional initiative that aims to improve forest monitoring and management in the region. It covers five countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda).
The objective of the East and Southern Africa Forest Observatory (OFESA) is to produce a comprehensive and harmonized regional dataset on the latest trends and threats...
Ethiopia - Kenya - Mozambique - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - The East and Southern Africa Forest Observatory (OFESA)
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Learning through Farmer Field Schools: How Ugandan Communities Found Self-Sustainability
Uganda’s environment is under massive strain. With few resources available, many farmers are draining wetlands for agricultural use, and with deforestation, overgrazing, soil erosion, and water pollution impacts planting and harvesting. In recent years, climate shocks have exacerbated this deterioration. More than 70% of Uganda’s population works in the agriculture...
Uganda
2023 - Action Against Hunger
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The Slow Food network strengthens its commitment to saving bees
“The international Slow Food network has been working for a long time to save bees from the main threats they face,” says Edward Mukiibi, Slow Food president. “Among the main causes of their decline is the wide use of pesticides in conventional agriculture over several decades, monocultures, diseases and parasites, land...
Uganda
2023 - Slow Food
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Throwing light on the ERA model
Access Agriculture’s innovative model of working with young Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) to help scale agroecology knowledge among smallholder farmers has been recognised by several international awards. At a recent workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, Ezra Masolaki, Access Agriculture Entrepreneur coach for East Africa, was invited to throw light...
Uganda
2023 - Access Agriculture
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The gendered impacts of COVID-19 in Kenya, the Niger, Rwanda, and Uganda
Evidence from phone surveys
To identify and monitor the differential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and men in rural households, IFPRI conducted phone surveys in selected regions of the four focal countries, with financial and technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). The surveys traced gender...
Kenya - Niger - Rwanda - Uganda
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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Animal traction technology operation guide 2023
Majority of farmers in the West Nile region of Uganda are smallholder farmers who produce for subsistence use and only sell the surplus yet they have vast and productive land for farming. Use of rudimentary tools like the hand hoe that are labour-intensive is predominant. The use of animal traction...
Uganda
2023 - Afard - The Agency for Accelerated Regional Development
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Slow Food Uganda Coffee Festival returns
The event takes place in Mukono Town on May 12
Unlocking community barriers for a profitable and open source agroforestry coffee value chain: this is the leading theme at the 4th Slow Food Uganda Coffee Festival. Slow Food Uganda believes that agroforestry in coffee production is the key to achieving sustainability...
Uganda
2023
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Stories of change: connecting traditional knowledge and innovations for fair and sustainable food systems
The Family Farming Knowledge Platform in collaboration with the Barefoot Guide Connection organized a series of “writeshops”, writing classes to support practitioners to write their own experience, generating knowledge which highlight the practices, changes, innovations and impacts of what they do in support of family farming.
These writeshops represented an opportunity...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Egypt - Ghana - India - Kenya - Nepal - Poland - Timor-Leste - Uganda - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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Rearing crickets for food and feed
People who traditionally eat insects, such as grasshoppers, termites, white ants or crickets catch them in the wild when they are in season. In some places there are now fewer edible insects because the environment has been damaged. Rearing insects on your farm can provide proteins throughout the year. Edible...
Uganda
2023 - Access Agriculture
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Empowering women in small-scale fisheries for sustainable food systems
Consolidated baseline report: Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project supports the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the...
Ghana - Malawi - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
Доклад
Building evidence on agricultural value chains interventions in refugee settings
Baseline analysis in Uganda
This baseline report examines the Refugee Agricultural Value Chains for Economic Self-reliance (RAVES) project in Uganda. The programme adopts an innovative approach, with a focus on providing sustainable long-term solutions beyond humanitarian assistance that mitigate the negative effects of displacement, uplift refugees, and support host communities. The approach allows the...
Uganda
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Who says my land cannot be productive? A farmer’s journey to a forest full of food security!
We are Magdalene and Gillian, trainers working for Kulika Uganda. We are passionate about seeing that people engaged in agriculture adopt sustainable farming practices which are easy to implement and have benefits for the people and the planet. Kulika is a non-government organization working with rural communities to empower people...
Uganda
2023 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
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Action Against Hunger’s Farmer Field School program building self-reliance communities in Uganda
Farmer Field School, a program initiated about four years ago in Uganda by Action Against Hunger, a global humanitarian organization, is now building self-reliance communities in the East African country thanks to its ripple effect among learners.
To achieve this, the organization through the European Union Emergency Trust Fund (EUTF) Response...
Uganda
2023
Видеоматериал
Rearing crickets for food and feed
People who traditionally eat insects, such as grasshoppers, termites, white ants or crickets catch them in the wild when they are in season. In some places there are now fewer edible insects because the environment has been damaged. Rearing insects on your farm can provide proteins throughout the year. Edible...
Uganda
2023 - Access Agriculture
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Africa: The NARO PAH-safe fish smoking kiln
Greater support is needed for the adoption of a safe and effective fish smoking technology, associated with numerous positive socio-economic outcomes
Smoking fish is one of the most common methods of food preservation among fishing communities in Uganda. The most common species that fishing communities smoke include Nile Perch and Tilapia. However, one of the main hazards associated with traditional smoking methods is the risk of cancer due to Polycyclic Aromatic...
Uganda
2023 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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The challenges of being a female farmer in Uganda
Nambiro Fatuma is a single mother of 4 kids that fully depend on her. She, on the other hand, depends on her income that comes from a family farm owned by her father. “I produce bananas, maize, beans, cassava, sweet potatoes, mangoes and avocados…” she says. “I once thought about starting a poultry...
Uganda
2023 - Food Security Center
Статья информационного бюллетеня
Profile: Amplifying women’s voices
Amplifying women’s voices: Margaret Nakato’s important work in organising women in small-scale fisheries in Uganda has received international recognition. Margaret Nakato, Executive Director of the Katosi Women Development Trust (KWDT), Uganda, was awarded the prestigious Margarita Lizárraga Medal for the biennium 2020-2021, at the launch event of the International Year of...
Uganda
2022 - The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
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