VIDEO: Thousands displaced by Uganda flooding
Source: BBC
Kasese :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-09 07:36:25 -0700 | green-news
Thousands displaced by Uganda flooding 9 May 2013 Last updated at 09:46 ET Western Uganda has been experiencing its worst flooding since 1976 and authorities are racing to move people to safer ground before more rain hits over the coming...
Mobile phones unleash farmers in Uganda
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-09 07:11:18 -0700 | green-news
It allows the collection of data that will help them sell their crops, build a credit history, and receive other services, such as crop insurance. A powerful new mobile platform combining agriculture information and financial services specifically designed for smallholder...
Uganda: Harvard Professor Vouches for Modified Seeds
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-06 14:01:51 -0700 | green-news
Kampala, Uganda Ugandan farmers have been told that national food security could be substantially improved by using Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) to get better yields. Golf Course Hotel in Kampala. "Resisting new technologies won't develop Africa and Uganda specifically the...
Aiming for climate change-resilient coffee in Uganda
Source: IRIN
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-05-03 08:51:41 -0700 | green-news
In Uganda, a new pilot project seeks to understand the threat climate change poses to coffee, which will enable growers to enhance the crop's resilience to extreme weather events. Coffee contributes about US$400 million of Uganda's total annual export revenue,...
Africa: African Media Essential in Communicating Climate Change Responses
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-29 04:23:35 -0700 | green-news
The global effort to combat the impacts of climate change can be realized if the media clearly educates and informs the general public and policy makers on the various adaptation and mitigation measures. This has emerged from the 1st Eastern...
Uganda: Uganda Government to Set Up Climate Change Unit
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-25 13:01:21 -0700 | green-news
The government has set up a climate change unit to improve farmer incomes through monitoring weather patterns and climate change variations. The climate change unit will be set up at the ministry of water and environment in August this year....
African Governments Recognise Land Rights But Promote Landgrabbing
Source: Inter Press Service
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-25 01:17:08 -0700 | green-news
IPS Articles Biang Marcelin is the chief of Adjab, one of the villages in Ocean Division. He told IPS that despite the turnaround by the government, the land given back to the community was not sufficient. This land was given...
Africa: GMOs Good for Africa's Development, Says Harvard Don
Source: All Africa
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-22 07:43:15 -0700 | green-news
Biotechnology and genetic engineering have the potential to do for agriculture what mobile technology has done for the communications sector in Africa, a renowned Harvard University scholar, Prof...Juma, who was in the country for a meeting with President Yoweri Museveni,...
Congo-Kinshasa: Congo Conflict Hits Mountain Gorilla Tourism
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-16 05:39:17 -0700 | green-news
Despite fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the population of mountain gorillas continues to grow in the Greater Virunga region...A new census shows the region now has a total of 880 gorillas up from 380 in 2003. The...
In East Africa, heavy rains test emergency preparedness
Source: IRIN
Mbale :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-11 12:24:49 -0700 | green-news
Unusually heavy rains have caused havoc across much of east Africa, displacing thousands of people and damaging important infrastructure...Even normal rains can cause flooding and damage in areas with poor drainage; this year's heavy rains are already beginning to test...
Greedy green land grabbers
Source: Canadian Free Press
Mubende :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-10 19:57:07 -0700 | green-news
The troops were acting on behalf of a British forestry company that claims it fights global warming. The trees will supposedly absorb carbon dioxide, so that carbon-credits can be sold to transnational polluters, to stave off dangerous manmade climate change...
Gulf of Mexico can 'self-deep-clean'
Source: BBC
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-09 06:45:50 -0700 | green-news
New details have emerged about "self-cleaning" effects in the Gulf of Mexico witnessed in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Researchers reporting at the American Chemical Society conference revealed details of a cascade of micro-organisms that spring into...
Rice farmers face losses on lack of ready markets
Source: Daily Nation
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2013-04-03 03:31:45 -0700 | green-news
Rating In Summary Last year, rice farmers in Bunyala got over sh190 million from the over 52, 000 bags that was harvested in the area and the bulk of it being was sold to Uganda while the rest was consumed...
Uganda: Floods Displace Residents
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-01-25 05:50:42 -0800 | political-news
Floods Displace Residents Richard Otim 25 November 2011 Disaster officials in Ngenge Sub-county in Sebei Sub-region have called for emergency relief to the area following the heavy floods that have displaced thousands of residents. According to a survey carried out...
Uganda: Will GMOs Address Food Security?
Source: Africa Headlines
Kampala :: Uganda | updated 2012-01-14 21:31:29 -0800 | political-news
Joseph Olanyo 13 November 2011 Kampala Creating seed security for small-holder farmers has been very central in ensuring food security in not only Uganda. but the region at large. This is more so with regards to biodiversity and indigenous seeds...
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