Uganda
This is a brief introduction that will pave way to a series of subsequent Policy Briefs to be produced as outputs of the Economics Component (Project No. UNTS/RAF/008/GEF P. O. No: 93330) of the GEF/UNDP/FAO Project Reducing Biodiversity Loss at Selected Cross-Border Sites in East Africa. A series of policy briefs will be produced on an ongoing basis highlighting the progress, findings, and...
The Mt. Elgon Conservation and Development Project Phase III commenced in July 1996, following on from two previous phases, Phase I from 1988 to 1990 and Phase II from 1990 to 1994, and a transition phase from 1994 to July 1996. The project was developed in response to threats to the Mt Elgon ecosystem through agricultural encroachment and illegal resource exploitation resulting from a wide...
Climate change does not happen in isolation. It interacts with existing problems and challenges – notably deforestation, soil degradation, declining food security, declining fish stocks – and makes them worse. Adaptation has to start with adaptation to the current climate.
The people of Uganda are highly susceptible to present climatic variations and shocks. Building...
In sub-Saharan Africa mobile pastoralism is predominantly practised in arid and semi-arid lands. These lands are hot and dry, with low and erratic rainfall. There are not many livelihoods suited to this unpredictable environment, but pastoralism is particularly appropriate, because it enables people to adapt by moving livestock according to the shifting availability of water and pasture.
...The Kakamega Forest lies 150 kilometres west of the Rift Valley in Kenya at an altitude of 1600 metres. It is the only surviving rain forest in Kenya and the eastern-most fragment of the Guinea-Congolian rainforest, which once stretched from Kenya across Uganda, Central Africa, and the West African Coast. Covering an area of 230 square kilometres, the forest is home to a considerable variety...
This manual is based upon the premise that improving food security and people’s livelihoods is complex and calls for a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach. This paper also reflects increasing demands for FAO to collect and make accessible gender-disaggregated data and statistics for agricultural policy formulation and planning.
This package of facilitation materials, has...
Water-related problems are an increasingly important challenge to sustainable development, and the availability and quality of water are strongly influenced by forests. In this issue of FAO's Unasylva, a collection of articles explore the complex interaction between water and forests in a range of contexts, and discuss the challenges for policy that arise from...
This report provides a snapshot of both the successes achieved and challenges faced in managing environmental data and information in Uganda, providing some relevant recommendations. The report firstly states that the data collection and information management infrastructure in the country is still very weak. It also notes that networking and coordination mechanisms between data producers and...
Between August and October 2004, a study of household poverty dynamics was undertaken in forty rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Peru to ascertain how different households have fared over time. This study took the same community-based ‘Stages-of-Progress’ approach designed for studying poverty dynamics and the role of livestock as did several similar...
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