Seasonal changes due to climate change remain one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda today. The increasing temperatures, drought, erratic rainfall, and floods adversely affect farmers’ yields. This creates an uncertain future for farmers and everyone who depends on agriculture as a source of livelihood. According to the…
Uganda continues to grapple with worsening food security despite several attempts to remedy the same. A household is believed to be food secure when all household members have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food at all times that meets their dietary needs and…
In the past, the Government of Uganda implemented reforms, with varying degree of success, to address many development challenges such as macroeconomic instability, infrastructure deficits, poor governance and armed conflicts. The government is now responding to the challenge of limited coordination and cooperation in planning, budgeting, monitoring and…
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the biggest global disruptions in recent decades. On the economic front, it resulted in changes in the different supply chains and transmission mechanisms, leading to disruptions in many sectors of the economy. Despite a few manufacturing subsectors benefiting from the pandemic through…