Agriculture is central to Uganda. The sector provides 24% of Uganda’s gross domestic product (GDP), generates 48% of export earnings, and provides direct and indirect livelihood support to 80% of all households, according to Platform for Agricultural Risk Management (PARM). The utilisation of pesticides in food production has…
Yesterday, September 5, 2023, the Economic Policy Research Centre in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization and Uganda Development Bank embarked on training enumerators who are supposed to collect data to assess the impact of Agricultural digital credit among smallholder farmers using the case study of AgriConnect…
Globally, Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), namely cardiovascular diseases (heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes, cause an estimated 41 million deaths annually, equivalent to 71 percent of all deaths . Notably 77 percent of NCDs deaths are in low- and middle-income countries. Majority of these deaths are…