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How Ugandans Are Adapting to Climate Change
Written by Mubatsi
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Cooperation Game – Preventing a Climate Catastrophe.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. As Uganda’s climate continues to change at an unprecedented rate, it is important that Ugandans learn to adapt and fight climate change. The changes […]
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Mubatsi
Mubatsi is a Ugandan journalist who blogs on governance and human rights-based issues in his community with particular interest in environmental reporting. For four years, Mubatsi worked with The Independent, Uganda's most influential weekly policy analysis news magazine, as a reporter. He is currently a senior researcher at Made in Uganda TV, a television production company that produces Minibuzz show.
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A Poor Woman’s Life in Kampala
Written by Mubatsi
Agnes Namagembe is one of 4.2 million Ugandans living in urban areas. Like the majority of Uganda’s urban dwellers, Agnes lives in the capital, Kampala. Like many other African cities, Kampala is informally divided between up market and low market residences. The rich live in upmarket areas of the town […]
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Is Uganda Protecting Its Climate-Regulating Resources?
Written by Mubatsi
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Cooperation Game – Preventing a Climate Catastrophe.” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. Uganda is gifted by nature. Actually, some of the first outsiders to visit the East African country nicknamed it the original Eden. The fertile soils, […]
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Prevent Uganda’s looming climate catastrophe
Written by Mubatsi
By Mubatsi Asinja Habati When the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon was giving remarks at the climate talks (COP18) in Qatar last year, one fact caught my attention. Ki-Moon said no one is immune to climate change –rich or poor. In Uganda, like for the rest of the world, there […]
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Is Poverty a Barrier To Sustainability in Uganda?
Written by Mubatsi
The question whether growth and sustainability can coexist makes me think of production factors which often crop up in economic discussions. Take for instance, if a country like Uganda wants to pump its newly found oil, it needs land, labour, capital and entrepreneurs to do a good job. These are […]
