By Leonidas Hitimana, Forestry Program Team Lead, FAO Uganda FAO Uganda, March 21st, is the
By Qu Dongyu– FAO Director General Our forests play a vital role in feeding the
By Farayi Zimudzi, FAO Sub Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa Women are the backbone of
The heatwave currently sweeping through Uganda and across Eastern Africa is worsening the environmental health situation of the already vulnerable poor people and marginalized farmers who are already severely suffering from the blunt of climate change!
By Stuart Lubwama Dear comrades, fellow leaders, lecturers, and classmates, Yesterday’s military raid on our
Significant progress has been made in combating malaria, but the battle seems to have stalled,
By Abebe Haile-Gabriel and Yurdi Yasmi Today, 733 million people are food insecure. That means
It is intriguing that the UPDF enforcement unit, an avowed crusader for the recovery of fisheries resources is ‘unaware’ of the deliberate attempts to denude the islands of their invaluable forest resources. It is perplexing that armed “fisheries protectors” seem not to comprehend the ecological nexus of terrestrial and aquatic biota anchored in the fundamentals of ecosystem-based fisheries management
Encroachment is apparent in nearly all the Forest Reserves in Uganda, a situation that is not bound to stop any soon.
By Abebe Haile-Gabriel In Africa, rural poverty and hunger are grim companions and often overlap