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Environment
Environmental conservation: Masaka City, Centenary Bank plant trees
MASAKA – Masaka City leadership has partnered with Centenary Bank to promote environmental conservation as well as beautification of the city through planting trees. Centenary Bank general manager for Corporate Communications and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbarara grape farmers call for agronomists as pests and diseases ravage farms
MBARARA- A total of over 200 grape farmers in Mbarara City have asked the government to provide them with qualified extension workers to give advice in the control of pests and diseases…
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Environment
Fruit tree planting initiative launched in Sembabule district
SEMBABULE – A new environment initiative code-named ‘My Tree Initiative’ (MTI) with the aim of promoting fruit tree planting in schools and conservation of the environment has been launched in Mawogola County…
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Development
Gulu bee farmers advised to embrace climate-smart agriculture
GULU-Bee farmers in Gulu district have been urged to embrace climate-smart agriculture [CSA] to mitigate the current effects of climate change and environmental degradation due to tree cutting. CSA is an integrated…
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News
Lira High Court awards Shs 68bln to Lango families
LIRA-Lira High Court has awarded members under Lango Camp Host Association Shs 68 billion for damages caused when the government forcefully opened internally displaced people camps on their land depriving them of…
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Environment
Pallisa rice farmers ask govt for alternative sources of livelihood
PALLISA – Rice farmers in Pallisa district have warned that unless government secures them an alternative sources of livelihood, they will never vacate the wetlands they have been using for generations. In…
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Environment
Partners use carbon credits to promote growing of bamboo in Acholi
GULU-Eco-ways Uganda and Tree Nation, all concerned with environmental conservation, have partnered to introduce the commercial planting of bamboo in Acholi Sub-region under the carbon credit programme. The 25-year partnership will see…
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Environment
Killing of chimpanzees for meat upsets conservationists in Bunyoro
KIKUUBE-Conservationists in Bunyoro Sub-region region are worried following the increasing cases of killing chimpanzees in the area for meat. Barbra Babwetera, the executive director Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda [CCFU] said the rate at…
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East Africa
Bioeconomy strategy to improve food security, says EAC boss
ARUSHA-The Secretary General of the East African Community [EAC], Dr. Peter Mutuku Mathuki has said that the recently approved regional bioeconomy strategy by the EAC Council of Ministers will be a key…
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Africa
New AfDB, WWF study calls for increased investment in Africa’s biodiversity
MONTREAL-The African Development Bank [AfDB] and the Worldwide Fund for Nature [ WWF ], have launched a regional report on the performance of African countries under the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020.…
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