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On Nairobi’s bustling Ngong Road, the sound of mallets and saws fills the air. At the roadside furniture market, men with bulging muscles haul freshly cut timber from handcarts and lorries, weaving through crowds of buyers. Dust and sweat settle on everything. Here, in open-air workshops, carpenters craft elegant mahogany furniture–solid, termite-proof, and built to […]

She says her livelihood has improved greatly because she can now pay her children’s school fees in better boarding schools, cater for basic needs and afford food for her family.

At the furniture market in the Jabe district, in the urban commune of Mukaza, within the town hall of Bujumbura, the economic capital, planks of wood can be seen seemingly abandoned. At first glance, they appear old, discarded, and of no economic value. However, the reality is quite the opposite: this is high-value wood smuggled […]

From DRC to South Sudan, timber takes many routes which have been changing for years

A group of women in Lira district have embraced planting quick-maturing crops like eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, and cabbages all year round as an intervention to mitigate the effects of prolonged dry seasons.  During the dry season, the women collect water from ponds, boreholes or unprotected wells to irrigate their gardens using plastic bottles of mineral […]

The OLUM model is providing hope to refugees in Adjumani, empowering them to take control of their food security and livelihoods

Today, she distributes sunflower seeds to farmers and buys their harvest for oil pressing.

Plastic bottles, which would typically take a decade to decompose, can now be reused as valuable tools in drip irrigation systems.

The four-acre model is seen as the magic bullet for smallholder farmers who constitute the majority of the farming population in Uganda

Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, northern Uganda farmers’ rigidity in traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing, and low penetration by private soil testing actors in remote areas have limited the accessibility of soil testing. The costs associated with […]