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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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Finance & Banking
UDB, Ojangole win second Global Sustainable Finance Award
KAMPALA-Uganda Development Bank [UDB] and its Managing Director, Patricia Ojangole were for the second time in a row named Sustainability Leader of the Year 2022 at the Karlsruhe Sustainability Awards Ceremony that…
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Environment
Police accused of aiding illegal logging in Moyo as culprits are held
MOYO – Two trucks loaded with logs estimated to be worth more than Shs 150 million have been impounded at Laropi ferry landing site in Moyo district by the police in Laropi…
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Environment
Saving chimpanzees: Gov’t urged to be strict on conserving forests
KIKUUBE- Government has been told not to keep a blind eye to perpetrators who destroy forests in the country since among other roles, forests act as habitats for chimpanzees considered to be…
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