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 ...

Kasozi deanery is one of the areas that were first evangelised by the missionaries in Uganda. As early as 1894, the missionaries arrived in the area. Since then, the Church has been in existence in this area. It gives great ...

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 ...

This study was aimed at identifying and documenting key factors that may be responsible for mortality amongst Ugandan children under five years using data from the Ugandan Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS) (UBOS and ICF ...

Academic libraries are facing a major task of coping with the changing information needs and seeking and searching behaviours of their users. This situation is further complicated by the changing nature of the formats in ...

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 ...

Worldwide, road traffic accident injuries and fatalities have risen to be among the leading deaths (Global Status Report (2013). The World Bank and World health organization joint publication reported 1.2 million deaths ...

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 main thrust of this study is to investigate the effect of VAT on economic growth after its introduction having replaced CTL and Sales tax in Uganda covering the period 1987-2012.In the study GDP growth rates were used ...