Emma Naluyima

Dr. Emma Naluyima is a smallholder farmer in Uganda and a private veterinarian focusing on clinical medicine and herd health. She has previously worked for the National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank and as an officer in Entebbe in charge of a Livestock Environmental Station. Emma has worked for the President of the …

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Paving Roads to Prosperity for Africa’s Farmers

Joel Cherope, a young farmer from Kapchorwa in eastern Uganda had four tons of cabbage, and the best market was hundreds of miles away in Sudan. It took him a week to get to Sudan instead of the usual 24 hours because the vehicle he hired was barely functional and the roads were in bad …

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In a Hungry Africa, We Cannot Wait for Pigs to Fly

Poverty and hunger often go hand-in-hand. But in my country of Uganda, farmers are generating a revolution that is overcoming both, and it is based on pigs.  In the past 30 years, the number of pigs raised in Uganda has increased from about 200,000 to 3.2 million pigs.  Today, more than one million Ugandan farmers are …

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My one acre is a cornucopia; any young farmer can emulate me

In Uganda, the average age of a farmer is 50 and the average lifespan in the country is just 56. This means that in Uganda, as in much of Africa, as the old die there will be hardly anyone farming. Meanwhile, about 60 per cent of the region’s unemployed people are youth. Yet they are …

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