On a warm November morning in Namasagali, Uganda tried to reimagine its future. President Yoweri Museveni arrived to open a ...

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 ...

Uganda plans to increase the value of its processed agricultural exports to $20 billion annually by the year 2040, an ...

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 ...

The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has warned traders and grain millers in Kasese district against poor storage ...

At just 17 years old, Patience Namuju is already changing lives in her community. She lives in Uganda's Karamoja region, known for its harsh, unpredictable weather and widespread food insecurity.

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 ...

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 ...

Climate volatility in Uganda has only a modest but detectable influence on food prices, with rainfall shortages during ...

While a few states in the U.S. are debating mandatory labels for genetically modified foods, some African nations are considering a bigger question: Should farmers be allowed to plant genetically ...

New research has identified a genetic mutation that confers resistance to cassava mosaic disease (CMD). Groundbreaking research led by Rebecca Bart, PhD, associate member, and Nigel Taylor, PhD, ...