Developments
When major food crops are severely affected by pest or disease there is understandably wide public and scientific concern. Yet when cassava mosaic disease (CMD) first appeared in Uganda . . .
Artisanal fishing: too few fish?
Too few fish, too many large, high-powered fishing vessels filled to the gunwales with sophisticated tracking and netting equipment. And all with efficient freezing capacity and big storage tanks: What is left for the artisanal fishing community?
There is a joke told in Uganda that concerns "zero grazing", but it has nothing to do with tethered livestock fed on cut-and-carry fodder. The AIDS message is so widely promoted, so widely understood and, it seems, respected by so many, that it is safe to comment on . . .
For centuries people who have lacked land have rented from landowners with land surplus to their own cultivation requirements. The Kingdom of Tonga, a group of small islands in the South Pacific, is extending this principle . . .
