Uganda produces 180,000 m3 of forestry wood residues of which, only 10% is utilised by the local companies while the rest are left to rot and/or openly burnt posing environmental and health risks. These underutilised ...
Tumusiime, David Mwesigye; Vedeld, Paul(Taylor & Francis, )
This article examines the livelihoods and experiences of local people
after two decades of living close to a strict protected area
(PA). A total of 290 local PA neighbors and 60 key informants
were interviewed. Findings ...
Biomass fuels (charcoal and high quality fuel wood) obtained from forests have for a long time been the primary sources of cooking energy for most households in rural Western Uganda. In the face of rapid forest disappearance, ...
Between January and December 2008, we assessed the diet
and habitat selection of sitatunga, a highly endangered
tropical wetland antelope threatened by habitat loss in
Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland. Microhistological ...
Tumusiime, David Mwesigye; Vedeld, Paul; Gombya-Ssembajjwe, William(Elsevier, )
Forests are important to local livelihoods and regulating access to forests will have consequences to those
livelihoods and may promote illegal harvesting. This study analyses how local people make a living, focusing
on ...
Tumusiime, David Mwesigye; Turyahabwe, Nelson; Byakagaba, Patrick(IntechOpen, )
Decentralisation of forest management is currently implemented in many countries
in Africa, Asia and Latin America as a governance strategy aimed at enhancing for‐
est resource conservation, poverty alleviation and equity ...
Weelar, Charles Ganteh(Makerere University, 2017-01)
Rice is an important staple food for more than half of the world’s population. Globally, rice production is limited by abiotic and biotic factors. Of the insect pests attacking rice, the stalk-eyed fly is the most abundant. ...
The study investigated the bean marketing constraints and opportunities of the various actors in the market in Kamuli district of Uganda. Various reforms have been introduced to increase marketing efficiency of agricultural ...
There are various interventions by the government of Uganda together with other stakeholders to boost the quantity and quality of beef in Uganda. However little has been done to establish the market opportunities of beef ...
Most studies which have measured the effect of nutrition education on change in nutrition
knowledge and dietary diversity have not gone further to identify factors that influence
the change. Using an integrated ...
Groundnut Rosette Disease (GRD) caused by a complex of GRAV (groundnut rosette assistor luteovirus), GRV (groundnut rosette umbravirus), and the allied satellite RNA (sat-RNA) is the leading production constraint causing ...
An assessment of recruitment and volume increment of selected indigenous tree species was conducted in Mabira Forest Reserve. The aim was to guide determination of sustainable harvesting quota and harvesting cycles under ...
The major challenge facing livestock production in Kapoeta is inadequate pasture availability exacerbated by unreliable rainfall distribution, droughts and land cover change. First, the study determined the trends of ...
Understanding consumers‟ beef quality preference and willingness (WTP) to pay are pre-requisites to produce beef that meets consumers‟ eating satisfaction and increase beef demand. This study established the beef quality ...
The large surface area of Lake Victoria and the multitude of chemical-emitting activities in the lake’s watershed provide for elevated potential for atmospheric loading of organic pollutants yet there remain limited ...
Passion fruit is doubtless an important crop whose production has the potential to alleviate poverty in rural households. Additional significance is packed in its nutritional, confectionary and medicinal properties. It is ...
Soybean is an important food and cash crop. Its production trend in Uganda has been increasing for the past 10 years, though yields are still below the potential. Soybean productivity is con-strained by a number of both ...
Kambugu, Robert Kyeyune(Makerere University, 2014)
Sustainable supply of timber in Uganda is threatened by the declining wood resource base but the potential of the timber commodity chain in addressing this challenge has been overlooked. This study assessed the impact of ...
Climate change and variability are among the biggest contemporary threats to agricultural production and livelihoods in Sub Saharan Africa. As climate variability continues to manifest, the scale of the necessary adaptation ...
Coffee is an important cash crop in Uganda cultivated in a multifunctional agroforestry system that provides a variety of ecosystem services and disservices. Although trade-offs between services and disservices depend on ...