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LOOMING: Climate Change Likely To Raise Wheat Prices In Food-Insecure Regions

LOOMING: Climate Change Likely To Raise Wheat Prices In Food-Insecure Regions

By Our Science Reporter BEIJING, China [SHIFTMEDIA] Wheat is a key source of nutrition for people across the globe, providing 20% of calories and protein for 3.4 billion people worldwide. Even if we meet climate…

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GRAFT: Bukwo Farmers Reject Poorly Constructed Warehouses

GRAFT: Bukwo Farmers Reject Poorly Constructed Warehouses

By Our Reporter BUKWO, Uganda [SHIFTMEDIA ] Farmers in Bukwo district have rejected five maize warehouses constructed at a cost of one billion shillings, citing shoddy work. In 2020, the government through the Ministry of…

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Trade Unions Chat Ways On Addressing Worrying Disasters

CLIMATE CHANGE: Trade Unions Chat Ways On Addressing Worrying Disasters

By AWORI ESTHER LUCY KAMPALA, Uganda [SHIFTMEDIA] The National Organisation of Trade Unions (NOTU) and the International Labor Organisation are chatting ways towards addressing climate change. In a virtual hybrid workshop held in Kampala on…

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MARKETING: Ugandan Agroecologists Get Tips On How To Attract Global Markets

MARKETING: Ugandan Agroecologists Get Tips On How To Attract Global Markets

By PATRICK JARAMOGI KAMPALA, Uganda [SHIFTMEDIA NEWS] Uganda is finding resistance to compete in the international markets due to high toxicity of its products, experts have revealed. The worsening situation, unless addressed through increased agroecology…

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SKILLING: Second Cohort Of Advanced Leadership Programme For African Leaders In Agriculture Opens

SKILLING: Second Cohort Of Advanced Leadership Programme For African Leaders In Agriculture Opens

By Our Reporter Nairobi, Kenya [SHIFTMEDIA NEWS]The Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) has announced the opening of applications for the second cohort for the Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture (CALA)’s Advanced Leadership…

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BUGOMA FOREST: Justice Ssekaana Pulls Out Of Case After Activists Pressure

BUGOMA FOREST: Justice Ssekaana Pulls Out Of Case After Activists Pressure

By PATRICK JARAMOGI  KAMPALA, Uganda|SHIFTMEDIA| The battle to save Bugoma forest rages on. The latest in the case is the quitting over hearing of the case by “controversial” judge Justice Musa Ssekaana. Ssekaana is the…

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TOUGH: Rural Women Cry Foul Over Limited Resources for Agriculture

TOUGH: Rural Women Cry Foul Over Limited Resources for Agriculture

By Our Reporter KAMPALA, Uganda |SHIFTMEDIA| Limited access to productive resources, a prerequisite for income generation in agriculture is hurting rural women.  The women constitute 76% of the labor force in Uganda, it remains sad…

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CALL: Farmers Demand For Increased Agricultural Funding To Mitigate Climate Effects

CALL: Farmers Demand For Increased Agricultural Funding To Mitigate Climate Effects

By Our REPORTER KAMPALA, SHIFT MEDIA- Uganda is not doing much to address issues of climate change that is ravaging the agricultural sector, leading farmer activists have disclosed. The revelations come at a time when…

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G20 SUMMIT: Despair Lingers Regarding Lasting Solutions For Carbon Emissions And Covid 19 Jabs

G20 SUMMIT: Despair Lingers Regarding Lasting Solutions For Carbon Emissions And Covid 19 Jabs

By SMN Reporter ROME, Italy-SHIFTMEDIA- Fears are high that the G20 2021 summit that opened in Rome today may yield no much results regarding combating climatic change and providing solutions for the covid 19 vaccine…

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DISCUSSION: High Level Dialogue On Management Of Fragile Ecosystems In Rangelands Opens

DISCUSSION: High Level Dialogue On Management Of Fragile Ecosystems In Rangelands Opens

By Our Reporter KAMPALA, SHIFTMEDIA-  A virtual High Level Dialogue on Management of Fragile Ecosystems in the Rangelands has kicked off in Kampala, Uganda. The dialogue hosted by the Food Rights Alliance Uganda (FRA) is geared…

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