Fostering Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in Karamoja Sub Region The project is implemented in 5 parishes of Nabilatuk sub-county and Moruita sub counties of Nabilatuk and Nakapiripirit Districts. The project is focused to supporting capacity enhancement of the community in the selected watershed areas to sustainably utilize the natural resources through regeneration and protection for resilience building…Read More→
OPINION: Climate Change Poses Insecurity, Conflict Threat in Karamoja and Neighboring Regions Phillo Aryatwijuka The threat climate change poses to insecurity, conflict and communities’ livelihood is more real than ever for a country where over 80% of the population is totally dependent on agriculture as their source of livelihood and the other 20% also dependent on the latter for affordable…Read More→
Water, Water Everywhere, nor Any Drop to Drink; an old tale still current By Juliet Katusiime Zizinga This line from the “Rhime of an ancient mariner” of 1797-8 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is as old as it is current. The discussions on water resources have for long taken a so technical path that we have paid less attention to the…Read More→
Kosoroi a small town in Tapac sub county in Moroto district is now a well-known limestone deposit for Tororo cement one of the leading cement manufacturers in the East African region. Kosoroi is also a home to fearless, powerful women in mining and Alice Loumo is no stranger to mining in her village. On the day we arrive to Kosoroi…Read More→
Regina Teko 67 happily welcomes us into her homestead and quickly dashes inside the house gets us a bench and offers us to sit down. Again she adds that she prefers sitting on her favorite animal skin which she hurriedly puts down on sandy surface in her compound and sits down. She gently looks at me and asks are you…Read More→