Tag: Environment
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Uganda’s ‘modernisation’ theory is the more problematic than EACOP
In a October 2015 Ministry of Water and Environment report titled: “Uganda’s intended nationally determined contribution”, which I read in 2017, I learnt: “Uganda has contributed least to the potentially catastrophic build up of the human-derived greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere and yet the country is most vulnerable to global warming and climate change…
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Here is my vote for wildlife conservation
Sometimes back, a decade ago, I think, I went on holiday to Kenya with someone I shouldn’t have been holidaying with it turned out. But even while I was in the pain that came with me realizing it, I was still able to soldier on the holiday by finding refuge in taking good pictures of…
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Kadaga’s push for green jobs Machiavellian
About two weeks ago, a New Vision story headline, “Museveni backs Sh200b job creation programme,” caught my attention. A headline that excites, but, in the context of Uganda, is also truly Machiavellian. Let me explain, using one of the job creation programmes included in that story, the “Green Jobs Programme,” which was described as: “The…
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Why aren’t Mutuba trees growing all over Uganda?
The question: “why aren’t Mutuba trees growing all over Uganda?” that is the title of this blog posts, I did ask at the end of another of my blog posts “50 year old Mutuba Tree”, together with the following questions as well: “Or are they growing all over Uganda, except for places were “development” has arrived?…
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Rotational Grazing African Wisdom
“This is to show how tall the grass can grow after letting this paddock lay fallow for four months. Grass grows by itself when you leave it for about four months.” President Yoweri Kagutta Museveni This was the caption to a photo that was published on the ‘Face Book wall’ of President Museveni in November…
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