President Museveni is set to commission a Shs349 billion ($100 million) cassava processing plant in Kamuli District, aiming ...

Mr Rwabwogo emphasised that localizing feed raw materials like soybeans, maize, and cassava would reduce production costs and ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. When Arab traders introduced cassava — a nutty-flavoured ...

AgDevCo, a social impact agribusiness investor, announces a $450,000 debt investment into a Ugandan milling business, Talian Company Limited. Talian Company is a family-run milling business producing ...

On a breezy October 22 morning in Entebbe, a mix of scientists, policymakers, and agricultural experts gathered in a lakeside resort conference room with a shared sense of urgency.

Two years ago, surveyors came to measure a swathe of land cutting through the Bitamale family's homestead in western Uganda.

A walk through the rural landscapes of Butebo, Bukedea, and Pallisa districts reveals an overwhelming presence of cassava gardens stretching across vast lands. For many households, cassava is more ...

Scientists recently demonstrated progress in protecting cassava against cassava brown streak disease (CBSD), a serious virus disease, in a confined field trial in Uganda using an RNA interference ...

ST. LOUIS, MO, July 13, 2022 — Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, associate member and Dorothy King distinguished investigator, Donald Danforth ...

A United Nations aid experiment to restrict food handouts and promote self-sufficiency in Uganda’s Karamoja region is being tested amid villagers’ complaints of shortages and a rise in street begging ...

MUKONO, Uganda Lynet Nalugo dug a cassava tuber out of her field and sliced it open. Inside its tan skin, the white flesh was riddled with necrotic brown lumps, as obviously diseased as any ...