Raising a Case for Increased Research Support in Uganda
As young couples, most people realize that love plays a huge part in who they chose to be their marriage partners. However, there is one factor that pays an even larger role, convenience.
Couples who have mutual interests usually tend to gravitate towards a much richer and interesting relationship. Both may feel the need for a huge number of children, be interested in traveling or one may be great at cooking; a quality that often persuades men to get down on one knee. …

How Irrigation has the potential to improve farming productivity in Africa.
In a recent article published in “How we made in Africa”, the efforts in countering the effects of Climate Change in Ethiopia highlighted some of great strides being made within the agricultural industry to use irrigation to increase productivity on the Continent.
Waldu Gebramaskel, an Ethiopian Farmer told Germany’s DW-TV that because of the climatic changes in northern Ethiopia, many farmers in the area sold their land and moved to the cities. Gebramaskel, who grows fruit, millet, wheat and maize, however …

Beans from the Pearl
From time in memorial, Uganda has used the Northern corridor for the bulk of its exports. It is estimated that this route takes over 90% of the trade while only less than 1% of the volume goes through the Central Corridor of Dar es Salaam Port. A significant decline in the volume of exports from Uganda through this route was attributed to the liberalization of coffee transportation which was formerly exclusively transported by Uganda Railways on the Government of Uganda directive. Matters were made worse when three …

Beans from the Pearl
On the 10th of May 2011, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) together with USAID LEAD (Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural Development) Project made a presentation to local coffee stakeholders on the recent developments from their project of intercropping coffee and bananas to help improve income, food security, and system resilience in Uganda.
From 2006 to 2008, IITA had been involved in a first assessment of the benefits of fertilizer use and banana intercropping in coffee fields in two agro-ecological zones in Uganda (South and East). In collaboration …