Throughout the harvesting period of any crop, food loss in Uganda is unacceptably high. Crops often stay in the field for too long after they show signs of maturity. Bean pods burst and the beans ...

Good post-harvest-handling of crops must be carefully carried out by the farmers before the food crops are taken to the market ...

Names are steeped in meaning in Uganda. They reflect parents' hopes and ... every family would cultivate their own plot of millet and harvesting the crop was a communal activity.

When she was growing up in Uganda, Nakabuye’s family owned a small plantation ... by fierce storms destroyed most of her family’s chief source of food and income. “Crops were withered, and heavy rains ...

The Rural Development Administration (RDA) is the co-winner of the inaugural Global Future Fit Award at the annual World ...

Instead they found themselves competing with monkeys for food. Buhikire was shocked ... climate change impacts to feed on human crops, he added. Uganda lost close to 35 percent of its wetlands ...

In northern Uganda’s Pader district, farmers are working to preserve agricultural landscapes that have fed their communities ...

Kampala — The role of Uganda's agricultural extension system was questioned recently when a leading official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) told a workshop ...

Uganda. Image by Innocent Kiiza for Mongabay. Ficus trees quickly became central to her initiative. These trees, she explains, grow fast and their wide canopies provide shade for crops and homes.