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Uganda: ICT Lobby Group to Be Launched

[New Vision]The ICT Association of Uganda (ICTAU), a sector lobby group will be officially launched tomorrow Thursday May 16, 2013 at the Kampala Sheraton Hotel during a breakfast meeting. Go to Source ...

The Power of Mobile: Saving Uganda’s Banana Crop

Bananas constitute 70% of the family food basket in Uganda. Through my work on the Uganda Agricultural Technology and Agribusiness Advisory (ATAAS) project,...

Mercy Corps’ Agri-Fin Mobile program goes live in Indonesia, Uganda, and Zimbabwe

A unique “bundled” mobile service is changing the way smallholder farmers conduct business. A new Mercy Corps program, dubbed “Agri-Fin...

Unleashing Ugandan farmers’ potential through mobile phones

Farmers will be able to build a credit history through data collected on their farming supply purchases and produce sales. A powerful new mobile...

Uganda: Apps4africa Winners Recognized for Business-Friendly Innovations

[State Department]Washington -The three winning teams in the Apps4Africa 2012 Business Challenge accepted their awards at a March 6 event sponsored by...

Africa Analysis: Uganda must streamline its science

A paralysed science system means that Uganda’s desire to fund a landmark project out of its own coffers could backfire, says Linda Nordling. Go to Source ...

Working with Africa’s orphan crops: Sorghum and millet project consortium strives to deliver more adaptable and high yielding varieties resilient to climate change

On 1-3 August 2012, the implementing partners for project consortium 1 on ‘Delivering new sorghum and finger millet innovations for food security and improving livelihoods in eastern Africa’ held its monitoring and review meeting in Eldoret, Kenya to discuss the overall progress, achievements and related challenges in the course of the implementation of the consortium...