Author - cotfone

COTFONE
18Aug

Poverty bites as locals in oil fields wait for pay-out

As government continues to prospect and explore oil wells in parts of western, central and northern regions, scores of homesteads that  have been displaced by the quest to have oil exports ready by 2025 have lost farmlands. In Kakumiro District in western Uganda, more than 200...
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18Aug

Kalangala to start rearing, exporting edible beetles

Kalangala District has introduced a programme to rear, process and export edible huhu grubs. The insects, which have a resemblance to queen ants, are found in bush oil palm plantations, and are eaten as a delicacy in Ssese Islands. They are so valued that they are even...
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18Aug

Land acquisition hurdles await oil pipeline project

Summary Part II. In many countries, it is standard practice that if your land is impacted by a government project, you have to be paid first or later. Uganda’s land acquisition law details steps for acquiring private land but the process has lately become a nightmare...
COTFONE
16Jun

Children’s right to food is the reason to teach them farming

For Yisito Kayinga Muddu, teaching children to grow their own food is a human rights issue. “Young children must be well fed to grow well,” he says. “They have a right to food.” He is the director and founder of Community Transformation Foundation Network (Cotefone),...
Cotfone
15Jun

Why men should join fight for gender equality

For a moment, it seemed as if the war on patriarchy had been won. Since the 1990s, the push for gender equality had gained momentum. The Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China, in 1995, was a watershed moment. At the conference, governments agreed...