Successful `Zero Food Loss’ programme run by WFP nears target of 240,000 smallholder farmers What do you do if you run a school in a poor rural area and have to feed 800 pupils? That is the challenge the parents and teachers of Lumuli Primary School in Butagaya sub-County, Jinja …
Read More »UBBC asks parliament to pass GMO bill
The Uganda Biotechnology and Bio safety Consortium (UBBC) has called on Parliament to pass the GMO bill before its expiry this month. “There is no technology without side effects, neither have I had anyone dying of genetically modified goods. All we want is a regulatory system to measure what is …
Read More »CSOs urge trade ministry to consider food security, climate change
By Joan Akello Following the expiry of the first five year phased National Trade Sector Development plan last year, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC) is developing a new one. The ministry has hired consultants to engage different stakeholders to input into the next five year NTSDP- 2015/16-2020/21. …
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