Despite being highly affected by a changing climate, Uganda’s Batwa community lack voice, agency and influence in climate adaptation planning and actions.
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Improved seeds can alleviate a food security crisis deepened by COVID-19.
In a bitterly contested election, the government is seeking to control the message by shutting down the internet.
Compensation for losses from wildlife is an increasingly popular conservation intervention. However, a recent review cautions its use.
In Uganda, young people’s knowledge of national political institutions, and on how they would claim and advocate for their rights as citizens, was remarkably low.
Their mothers were forcibly married or raped during Uganda’s vicious civil war. Now these children are ‘non people’.
Major challenges in the youth empowerment policy implementation mean that young people don’t benefit from start-up funding.
The giant leap in the number of people accessing HIV treatment would not have been possible without task shifting from medical doctors to less-specialised cadres such as nurses and midwives.
In surpassing opposition stalwart Kizza Besigye, Robert Kyagulanyi has done what many Ugandans thought impossible. But can he topple Museveni?
In some countries there appear to be mismatches between lists of essential medicines and lists of registered medicines.
Research on the genetic basis of mental illness has so far largely excluded anyone who is not of European heritage.
The best option to manage desert locusts is to manage them at their breeding sites with sustainable options, such as biopesticides.
The country has been praised for the humane treatment of its vast refugee population. Now questions arise about how it can continue to do so without without assistance from aid workers.
Potato cyst nematodes suppress crop growth and can cause huge yield losses of up to 80%, and even total crop failure.
Debate is raging as to whether Uganda can hold a scientific election, preceded by mass media and digital campaigns.
Low productivity is one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda’s maize industry. But smallholder farmers still won’t adopt improved seed.
Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could drive productivity in farming.
Kampala, like many other cities in sub-Saharan Africa, has a critical data gap on the scale and magnitude of air pollution.
Refugees invest a great amount of effort in solving disputes among themselves, and with surrounding host community members.
Many of the tools needed to tap into the potential of Africa’s livestock sector exist already.
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Fellow, Infrastructure Institute, School of Cities, University of Toronto
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Lecturer in Law, University of East London
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Health Systems Researcher, Makerere University
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, and Research Associate at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology and International Development, The University of Western Australia
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Professor in International Development, University of Antwerp
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Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Warwick
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Lecturer of Mass Communications, Uganda Christian University
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Professor of History, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, King's College London
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Lecturer, RMIT University
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
