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News: News: Floating Fish Cage Farming a Solution to Uganda’s Declining Fishery Stocks
813 reads This is a policy brief extracted from a study on cage culture and aquaculture park technologies in Uganda conducted by EPRC and National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI). The brief demonstrates that favorable and bullish international fish prices have supported steady ...more
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Question: Question: extension
1147 reads what is the general recommended extension agent to farmer ratio spmr ...more
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Organisation: Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS)
To promote an effective, efficient and innovative AAES system through advocacy, capacity building, information sharing and increased professional development among AAES actors in Uganda. UFAAS is the AFAAS Country Chapter in Uganda. UFAAS brings together a broad range of actors in AEAS ...more
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News: News: 2nd Community of Practice (CoP) Meeting on the Gender & Nutrition Integration within the Agricultural Extension System in Uganda
a network of organizations at the forefront of strengthening nutrition and gender in Uganda. It is hoped that peer-to-peer learning and exchange between organizations will facilitate organizational change amongst members around gender and nutrition issues in their extension programs. The first meeting was ...more
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News: News: 2nd Community of Practice Meeting on the Gender & Nutrition Integration within the Agricultural Extension System in Uganda
a network of organizations at the forefront of strengthening nutrition and gender in Uganda. It is hoped that peer-to-peer learning and exchange between organizations will facilitate organizational change amongst members around gender and nutrition issues in their extension programs. The first meeting was ...more
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Story: Story: Launch of INGENAES Community of Practice (CoP) in Uganda
The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS) is currently partnering with the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) University’s project on the Integration of Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension Services (INGENAES). The INGENAES project supports the United ...more
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Question: Question: Youth argue that most offices in Uganda are occupied by old people some of whom have reached retirement age and this has rendered them unemployed. How can we address this issue?
667 reads mobile Youth argue that most offices in Uganda are occupied by old people some of whom have reached retirement age and this has rendered them unemployed. How can we address this issue? itzm ...more
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News: News: UFAAS PARTNERS WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN TO IMPLEMENT GENDER AND NUTRITION INTEGRATION WITHIN UGANDA
315 reads The Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS), a country chapter of AFAAS, has partnered with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) to implement the INGENAES Project, which stands for, 'Integrating Gender and Nutrition within Agricultural Extension ...more
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Resource: Resource: Banana Value Addition in Uganda
619 reads Harmony Nutri Foods Ltd adds value to bananas by bottling freshly squeezed banana juice commonly known as "omubisi" Value Chains Agricultural Research Crop Production Uganda <a href="/users/afaas-support-0" title="View user profile." ...more
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News: News: ICTs in agriculture extension: The case of m-Omulimisa in Uganda.
transforming subsistence agriculture to modern agriculture, promoting food security and fighting poverty. Unfortunately, agricultural extension services in Uganda are constrained by an array of challenges: too few extension officers to serve a large farmer population with a 1:3,000 ratio of extension officers ...more