How Uganda’s sugarcane boom leaves families hungry
What needs to change: First, the sugar mills should stop signing contracts with males only COMMENT | JAMES KINTU | Busoga, in eastern Uganda, is a low, fertile plateau surrounded on three sides by Lake Victoria, the River Nile and Lake Kyoga. Most of its 4.3 million people farm small, rain-fed plots. Yet hunger …
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