Norah Owaraga

Modernizing Agriculture Impact on Land Use

The President Museveni led National Resistance Movement (NRM) Administration promotes a single story that there is a need to modernize Uganda’s agriculture from ‘subsistence farming’ to commercial farming. This single story suggests that commercialization of agriculture will usher in better utilisation of Uganda’s land that is claimed currently underutilized by the majority who are categorised…

Report: Camille Cosby Believes Women Consented To Drugs, Sex With Bill Cosby

She was a rape victim who accepted tuition fees from the rapist for years … Why, why, why? Me thinks the answer goes beyond just one man. It lies within the wider ‘hollywood’ or ‘star culture’ within the individualistic neoliberal paradigm … If we look closer, perhaps rape is all around us – of the…

DOING DEVELOPMENT THROUGH INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIPS

Originally posted on CPAR Uganda: CPAR Uganda has partnered with Alinga Farms to add value to eboo (cow peas leaves) – vegetable sun drying using the indigenous knowledge of the Lango peoples of Uganda – one of the examples of CPAR Uganda’s genuine wealth creation initiatives – food for you good health and for income…

Urban-slumitisation of villages, land dispossession and food insecurity in Teso

Introduction: In 1959, the Iteso were the second largest nationality in Uganda and by 2002 they were the fifth largest – making up at least 6.4 percent of Uganda’s population (Uganda Bureau of Statistics 2006). This paper uses the example of Teso (the area – in North-Eastern Uganda) and Iteso (the people) but the analysis…