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  • Biogas: The untapped resource in Uganda 12 Nov 2009 10:41 GMT
    ... Deforestation is a rising problem in Uganda. It has led to very long drought seasons in central and south- western Uganda. Drought was unheard of about 15 to 20 ...

  • Biogas - the Untapped Resource in Uganda [opinion] 12 Nov 2009 10:45 GMT
    ... Kampala — DEFORESTATION is a rising problem in Uganda. It has led to very long drought seasons in central and south- western Uganda. Drought was unheard of about 15 to 20 ...

  • Food prices 'stubbornly high' in developing countries, report says 12 Nov 2009 05:15 GMT
    ... Africa, the situation is particularly serious as drought and conflict has put an estimated 20 ... rains and dry spells often followed by floods had hurt crops and pastures in Kenya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Uganda," writes. "In Somalia and Sudan, poor weather ...

  • The daily struggle to survive 12 Nov 2009 05:50 GMT
    ... the pressures of increasingly severe and frequent droughts, coupled with a rapidly rising population. In one ... blamed for exacerbating tensions among tribes in Uganda, northern Kenya, and Ethiopia, where watering holes are ...

  • Is Africa selling out its farmers? 12 Nov 2009 01:30 GMT
    ... east to breed higher yielding and more drought- and pest-resistant strains of everything from maize and cassava ... three years for small farmers in and Uganda. The pilot scheme suggests the bank is buying ...

  • SPECIAL REPORT - Is Africa selling out its farmers? 12 Nov 2009 10:19 GMT
    ... east to breed higher yielding and more drought- and pest-resistant strains of everything from maize and cassava ... small farmers in Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda. The pilot scheme suggests the bank is buying ...

  • African kings, queens, chiefs to honor Mandela 12 Nov 2009 18:54 GMT
    ... discuss community matters such as coping with droughts, managing cattle and responding to new laws decreed ... Kemigisa, the queen mother of Toro in Uganda, most African royals no longer have more than ...

  • Africa must unite; we can't wait 12 Nov 2009 17:10 GMT
    ... AFRIca was very vegetative, and then came droughts that dried up the Sahara and Kalahari deserts. We ... saying that there are no thieves in Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. There are. But they are ...

  • Watsonville marks Veterans Day with parade, proclamations and prayers 12 Nov 2009 01:04 GMT
    ... with disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He said the low turnout for the ... recently returned from a humanitarian mission in Uganda, expects to be deployed to Afghanistan in ...

  • Uganda: Drought, transport fares drain pineapples of juices 11 Nov 2009 17:59 GMT
    ... Uganda: Drought, transport fares drain pineapples of juices The prolonged drought has affected pineapple farming in Uganda ...

  • Drought and insecurity worsens in Uganda 11 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
    ... diseases and the lack of water and pasture are hitting the livestock of north-east Uganda, reports Jane Beesley. Ugandan farmers and their sheep at sunrise [Photo credit: Jane Beesley] As ...

  • "Climate witnesses" don't want handouts 11 Nov 2009 16:57 GMT
    ... to a meeting in Kampala [capital of Uganda] about climate change that I heard it ... a farmer from the Tororo district of drought-affected eastern Uganda. "We are asking that they ... communities were coping with the cycle of floods and droughts that has gripped their homelands to ...

  • Climate change could worsen displacement - UN 11 Nov 2009 13:06 GMT
    ... that with increasing natural disasters such as floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa ... an African Union (AU) summit in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on 22 October. In 2008, ...

  • Preparing to mitigate negative impact of El Niño 11 Nov 2009 13:06 GMT
    ... Authority on Development (IGAD) and World Bank. "Drought and floods affect directly or indirectly millions of people each ... Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Sudan and Somalia are attending the conference, ...

  • Irish bishops 'totally' oppose development of Sellafield 11 Nov 2009 02:55 GMT
    ... to the Copenhagen conference”. Fr McDonagh noted typhoons in the Philippines and melting glaciers in ... engaged with this issue”. His visit to Uganda last week “was dominated by climate change”. He ... an area where there has been prolonged drought, with crops planted twice to no effect. ...


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