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Every year, large amounts of chemicals are imported into Uganda for use in various economic activities. Recent discoveries of large oil and gas deposits mean the country is poised to experience massive growth in…
Online data is helping water authorities collaborate across borders to fight the impacts of climate change It’s a cycle that is becoming all too common around the globe. A swing from flood to drought and back that…
“Rain has become my enemy. When it rains, my heart sinks,” says Jane, an entrepreneur who runs a village grocery shop in the Isingiro District of Western Uganda. Over the years the forests in the Isingiro area…
It’s late Sunday morning in Koyonzo and the central market, which straddles the main road of this town in western Kenya, is already filling with people. Vendors arrange piles of smoked fish and vegetables at their…
Behind Uganda’s lush beauty, climate change is looming large. Dubbed "the Pearl of Africa" for its stunning nature, this verdant east-African nation is struggling to deal with the prolonged dry seasons and more…
SEED is looking for the most promising, innovative and locally led start-up eco-inclusive enterprises making significant contributions to mitigating and/or adapting to climate change. Up to five 2018 SEED Low…
The report provides a unique quantification of the costs in terms of lost growth opportunities and an estimate of what societies, economies, and communities would gain if the gender gap in agriculture is addressed. The findings of this report are…
Since he was in secondary school, in his village in Uganda, Noah Ssempijja remembers being known as the village maverick, the risk-taker. “I don’t give up easily,” Ssempijja, 29, says, “so my house became a…
Kampala, 27 August 2015 - United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner yesterday concluded a successful visit to Uganda, where he met with H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of…
This report is a terminal evaluation of a UNEP GEF project implemented between 2009 and 2012. The project goal was to build regional capacity on analysis and data generation for POPs in core matrices for the Global POPs Monitoring (GMP) to enable…
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