Department of enviroment livelihood support system: Recent submissions
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Technical performance and carbon footprint of commercial dairy farms in South West Uganda
(Wageningen Livestock Research, 2022)Dairy production in Uganda is rapidly expanding as a result of a high and increasing market demand and strategic prioritization of dairy for agricultural development. While the increase in production contributes to improved ... -
Transforming matters: sustaining gold lifeways in artisanal and small-scale mining
(Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2021)Growth strategies in mining regions promote gold extraction based on industrial mining, associating Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) with persistent informality. Against this background, we consider how to ... -
Utilisation of biodegradable solid waste to boost crop production among farmers in Mbarara city, south western Uganda
(American Journal of Agriculture, 2022)Purpose: Determining the utilisation of biodegradable solid waste in boosting crop productivity among farmers in Mbarara City. Methodology: Mixed methods were used with simple random sampling and purposive sampling to ... -
Who wants what? Assessing the supply and demand for locally-produced tourism services around Bwindi Forest, Uganda
(2017-02)Tourism in Uganda is critical for generating revenue for conservation of mountain gorillas and other species and habitats. At Bwindi Impenetrable National Park (BINP) tourist numbers have increased from 1,300 per annum in ... -
Women‘s employment and the changing family pattern in Ankole Sub-region- Uganda
(International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2021)Abstract: This study employed a case study design using phenomenological stances of qualitative research to collect data from three districts of Mbarara, Bushenyi and Kiruhura and the objective of the study was to find out ... -
Lessons learnt from 20 years of revenue sharing at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
(2017)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 gorilla tracking safaris. A revenue sharing (RS) scheme was ... -
" I Want to Feel and Look Beautiful” Voices of Young Adult Banyankole Girls from the Ankole Region of Uganda
(International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 2021)Young people who struggle with self-esteem, are much more susceptible to harmful societal messages and struggle with body dissatisfaction. Therefore, body image and self-esteem are integral issues in child development. ... -
Facilitating social enterprise development through collective marketing: insights from Bukonzo Joint Co-operative Union, Western Uganda
(Journal of Fair Trade, 1(1), 13-26., 2019)Collective marketing is an avenue through which farmers could receive higher returns from their produce. Bukonzo Joint Co-operative Union exemplifies this: it has obtained both Fairtrade and organic certifications and, by ... -
Does the farmer’s social information network matter? Explaining adoption behavior for disaster risk reduction measures using the theory of planned behavior
(2022)Smallholder farmers’ vulnerability to climate-related disasters in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing, partly due to land-use changes and limited information about the adoption of farm-based Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) ... -
Beauty Is Skin Deep; The Self-Perception of Adolescents and Young Women in Construction of Body Image within the Ankole Society
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021)Abstract: Introduction: Adolescents and young women become increasingly aware of their bodies through images presented to them through social structures during their developmental stage. These images may drive them toward ... -
Effects Of Operating Parameters On Maize Cob Briquette Quality
(Biomass and bioenergy, 2018)Briquetting is considered as one of the pre-treatment methods available for producing uniform sized and moisture content feedstock which is easy to handle, transport and store. The quality of briquettes in terms of density ... -
Tree gap dynamics and their influence on chimpanzee food tree regeneration in Kalinzu Forest Reserve, south-western Uganda
(Makerere University Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, 2020)The chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) community in Kalinzu Forest Reserve, South Western Uganda is relatively stable and ranks third in the country with a total population density of 1.55 Km-2 compared to Kibale ... -
Projected land use change in an oil-rich landscape in Uganda
(Elsevier Ltd, 2022-03-13)The discovery of oil in the North Albertine Rift Landscape of Uganda has increased pressure on land and heightened the potential for resource use conflict. In this article, we focus on changing land use dynamics as oil ... -
Exploratory study on the adoption of knowledge management practices in small medium enterprises in resource constrained areas
(International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, 2018)The aim of this paper is to shed light on Knowledge Management (KM) practices in Small Medium enterprises (SMEs) in resource constrained areas. The Paper presents the results of an exploratory study investigating the ... -
Three decades of forest cover change in Uganda’s Northern Albertine Rift Landscape
(Land Use Policy, 2015)Deforestation within and outside protected areas is widespread in Western Uganda, but quantification of such forest changes is rare. In this study, spatio- temporal forest cover patterns in the Northern Albertine Rift ... -
The Effect of Land Cover Change on Soil Properties around Kibale National Park in SouthWestern Uganda
(Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2010)The change from natural forest cover to tea and Eucalyptus is rampant in protected areas of western Uganda. The objectives were; to examine the trend in land-use /cover change and determine the effect of these changes on ... -
Bridging the rural-urban dichotomy in land use science
(Journal of Land Use Science, 2020)Rural and urban areas are often conceptualized as two separate entities and studied accordingly. However, in reality, they are related in multiple ways. Here we explore this relation between rural and urban areas from a ... -
Revisiting the Drivers of Deforestation in the Tropics: Insights from Local and Key Informant Perceptions in Western Uganda
(Journal of rural studies, 2018)Deforestation has been widespread in the Northern Albertine Rift Landscape in rural Western Uganda. In this paper, we present perceptions from local residents and narratives from key informants on causes of forest loss ... -
Who and Why? Understanding Rural Out-Migration in Uganda
(Geographies, 2021)Rural–urban migration in developing countries is considered to be a key process for sustainable development in the coming decades. On the one hand, rural–urban migration can contribute to the socioeconomic development of ...