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Environment

East Africa: Uganda starves its soils

2009-07-03, Issue 440

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/environment/57491

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Efforts to guard Uganda against looming food insecurity are held back by government’s failure to encourage and sensitize farmers on what specific fertilizer types to use in order to rejuvenate the increasingly less fruitful soils. Scientists warn that despite availability of some improved seed varieties, soils in the landlocked East African country can no longer produce food sustainably to feed a rapidly growing population.

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