agroforestry
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Cooperatives & Communities
A cooperative in Kanungu is conserving a national park while trading in coffee to fight poverty
KANUNGU, February 26, 2024 – In a profound transformation, a community once devastated by the menace of poaching has discovered a newfound source of optimism in an unlikely commodity: coffee. Emerging from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
WSACCO embarks on enterprise selection and training of members
MBARARA, October 12, 2023 – Wazalendo Savings and Credit Cooperative Society [ WSACCO ] has embarked on the sensitisation drive aimed at helping members boost loan productivity. According to Charity Namanya, the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Wetland evictees urged to embrace climate smart agriculture
SOROTI-The Ministry of Water and Environment has urged farmers that were evicted from wetlands recently to embrace climate smart agriculture [CSA]. According to World Bank, CSA is an integrated approach to managing…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Climate change: Coffee farmers tipped on agroforestry
AMURU-Coffee farmers in Amuru district have been tipped to engage in agroforestry to avert the impacts of climate change on their farms. According to reports obtained from the agricultural office, the district…
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Cooperatives & Communities
FSD Africa, Rabobank to fund African small-scale farmers with loans for carbon credits
NAIROBI– Financial Sector Deepening Africa [FSD Africa] and Rabobank ACORN / Rabo Foundation have launched their collaboration in helping 3,000-5, 000 small-scale farmers with their transition to agroforestry, a sustainable and climate…
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News
Security deployed to guard Masaka forest reserves
MASAKA– Uganda People’s Defence Forces [UPDF] officers and Environmental Police have been deployed to protect three forest reserves of Manwa, Jubiya, and Mujuzi in Bukakata Subcounty and Namirembe Forest Reserve in Kyanamukaka Subcounty…
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