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Lessons learnt from 20 years of revenue sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(International Institute for Environment and Development, 2017-11)
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park is one of the prime protected areas in Uganda, famous for its mountain gorilla families that have been habituated to allow gorillatracking safaris. A revenue sharing (RS) scheme was ...
Effect of Climate Change on Soil Health and Implications on Food Security
(INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY TECHNOVATION, 2021-11-05)
Climate change and soil health are intertwined complex processes that affect each other. The aim of this review was to find out the impact of climate change on soil health, its implication on food security and human welfare ...
A scoping study of the Hydrological Systems for Lake Edward Basin- Bwindi Impenetrable and Queen Elizabeth National Parks, Southwestern Uganda
(Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, 2015-08)
This study was commissioned, funded and supervised by the Executive Secretariate of the Virunga Transboundary Collaboration (GVTC), with the financial support generously provided by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Kigali, ...
Community perceptions towards the implications of human activity on River Rwizi, Uganda sustainability
(Int. Res. J. Earth Sci., 2018-06-20)
This study was undertaken in the cells of Kiswahiri, Buremba and Nyakaizi in Kakoba Division of Mbarara Uganda. The research was done as a baseline study for investigating the possibility of implementing a project for ...
Assessing the Impact of NAADS Programme on Agricultural Economic Performance in Mbarara District - Uganda
(Department of Economics and Management, Bishop Stuart University, 2019-04-30)
This study was conducted on assessing the impact of NAADS programme on agricultural economic performance in Mbarara district. Agricultural Economic performance was assessed in terms of household income and commercialization. ...
Utilization of medicinal plants in treating livestock diseases around Queen Elizabeth national park, western Uganda
(International Journal of Herbal Medicine, 2019-06-06)
The study focused on the use of medicinal plants in treating livestock diseases by the communities around queen Elizabeth National Park, specifically in Nyakatonzi and Kichwamba sub-counties in western Uganda. The study ...
Land Use Practices in the Rural and Urban Sub Catchments of River Rwizi, Western-Uganda
(Science Publishing Group, 2018-05-04)
The water quality of river Rwizi has increasingly become a concern at community, district and national levels, serving a wider catchment in the south western part of Uganda. With the increasing national human population, ...
Risk of banana Xanthomonas wilt spread through trade
(JCP, 2013-09-12)
Banana Xanthomonas wilt is a systemic disease of banana plants. We investigated the risk of spreading Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) through asymptomatic mature bunches. Samples of banana fingers and rachis ...
Distribution,Incidence and farmer knowledge of Banana Xanthomonas wilt in Rwanda
(Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA),, 2013)
Banana Xanthomonas wilt was reported in Rwanda in 2005. The present study was conducted to determine the distribution and incidence of the disease and farmer knowledge of disease symptoms, modes of spread and control. A ...
The role of mixed cropping systems on bean root rot epidemics in south western Uganda
(National Agricultural Laboratories Institute, 2006)
In south western Uganda, beans are largely grown as intercrops with sorghum, maize, sweet potato and potato . Continuous cropping of beans, has increased bean root rot epidemics. Since some of the root rot causing organisms ...