Changes in climate that intensify drought and accelerate the spread of livestock parasites and diseases darken the economic future for sub-Saharan pastoralists. Already stressed, as industrial and urban development narrow their access to pastures and water for their animals, many pastoralists face a bleak choice: abandon their livestock and their cultural heritage or die. In Uganda, however, the outlook for pastoralists is becoming much brighter. Thousands of pastoralists in Uganda point the way toward a better option: commercial milk production.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2018Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2014Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Eastern Africa, Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchJune, 2009Uganda, Africa
Includes landlord-tenant relations, the Kibaale land question, pastoralists, gazetted land, IDPs and returnees in Northern Uganda, conflicts about refugee resettlement camps, the impact of oil discoveries, deficits in dispute resolution and land administration, corruption, ignorance of the law.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchFebruary, 2014Uganda
Basic survival is very difficult for the 1.2 million people who live in Karamoja, a remote region in northeastern Uganda bordering Kenya marked by chronic poverty and the poorest human development indicators in the country. Traditional dependence on semi-nomadiccattle-raising has been increasingly jeopardized. Extreme climate variability, amongst other factors, has made the region’s pastoralist and agro-pastoralist people highly vulnerable to food insecurity.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2015Kenya, Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2006Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
Nineteen microsatellite markers were used to investigate the genetic diversity, phylogenetic
relationships and herd structure of Ugandan Ankole cattle. A total of 304 animals from 8 herds in
Mbarara District were characterised. Across all loci, 200 alleles were observed. A high mean
number of alleles (MNA) per locus, ranging from 5.89 to 6.79 per herd, was observed. Polymorphic
information content (PIC) ranged from 0.403 (ILSTS013) to 0.817 (ILSTS036), with an overall
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2016Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Africa, Eastern Africa
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchTraining Resources & ToolsFebruary, 2011Uganda, Africa
Cattle are one of the main instruments for economic (e.g., milk, meat, and cattle sale) and social (e.g., marriage, death, dispute settlement, and gift giving) exchange in Uganda. They serve as the main source of livelihood for a large majority of rural Ugandans, especially in the cattle corridor. Recent statistics demonstrate that the livestock sector contributes 13.1 percent of the agricultural gross domestic product (GDP) and 5 percent of the national GDP.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2013Angola, Honduras, Belgium, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Senegal, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique, Uganda, Somalia, Italy, India, South Sudan, Sudan, Mexico, Brazil, Africa
This PFS training Manual is designed for use by Master Trainers (MTs) during the training of facilitators course. Each lesson/topic is complete in itself detailing the preparations to be made, the materials to be kept handy, the core message to be communicated, and the methods that can be used in communicating the messages. A few sessions may require the presence of a technical person as co-facilitator, but the rest can be handled by any person who has been trained as a PFS Master Trainer.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Burkina Faso, Nigeria, United States of America, Mauritania, Gambia, Mali, Ethiopia, Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, Malawi, Niger, Sudan, Cape Verde, Kenya, Belgium, Lesotho, Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan, Chad, Africa, Eastern Africa
In the Sahel, around 65 percent of the active population works in the agriculture sector and their livelihoods are therefore affected by climate change, markets and environmental factors. More than half of these are women. Recurring crises pose real concerns for the achievement of sustainable food and nutrition security in the region. The root causes of vulnerability to food insecurity and malnutrition are complex and multidimensional.
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