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Sustainable Development Beyond Rio+ 10: Consolidating Environmental Democracy in Uganda Through Access to Justice, Information and Participation
(Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment, 2002)The World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) due to take place in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002 is yet another key milestone in the formulation of strategies for achieving global sustainable development. The ... -
Manure matters: prospects for regional banana-livestock integration for sustainable intensification in South-West Uganda
(Taylor & Francis, 2022-09)In South-West Uganda, manure is highly valued for sustaining yields of East African Highland Banana, but it is in short supply. As a result, banana growers import manure from rangelands up to 50 km away. We aimed to explore ... -
Evaluation of underweight status may improve identification of the highest-risk patients during outpatient evaluation for pulmonary tuberculosis
(PLoS ONE, 2020)When evaluating symptomatic patients for tuberculosis (TB) without access to same-day diagnostic test results, clinicians often make empiric decisions about starting treatment. The number of TB symptoms and/or underweight ... -
Ethical Dilemmas in Uganda’s Agribusinesses
(AGRI-QUEST, 2016)This brief provides a compilation of key business ethical dilemmas that impact the broader business climate in relation to several agribusiness value chains (VC) which AGRIQUEST1 is studying in Uganda. The VC are Dairy, ... -
Child Marriage and Gender-Based Violence in Uganda
(Uganda None, 2021)This Policy Brief is drawn from qualitative research carried out in 2018 in Uganda, by the None in Three Research Centre Uganda (www.noneinthree.org /uganda/ ) . The research involved in-depth interviews with 45 survivors ... -
Crop diversity, climate change adaptation and resilience: good practice cases from Africa
(Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2021)Across Africa, erratic and less predictable rainfall, higher temperatures, heat spells, and recurring droughts are predicted to become more frequent. This is leading to a change of cropping seasons and growing cycles and ... -
Tsetse invasion in Karamoja, Uganda: An Emerging Threat to Socioecological Resilience
(AirFood, 2018)Over 70% of Uganda is infested by tsetse with negative effects on human and livestock health. From colonial to post-independent Uganda, the Government of Uganda has strived to eradicate the tsetse menace through ... -
East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis — Uganda
(International Food Policy Research Institute, 2012)Uganda occupies a total area of 241,038 square km, most of which is suitable for agriculture. Sixteen percent of the total area is water and swamps, while 7 percent is forested. Maize, beans, cassava, and banana (plantain) ... -
Decentralization and implementation of climate change policy in Uganda
(DIIS Working Paper, 2013)The focus of climate change policies and action in Africa south of the Sahara differs from the global agenda. While most debate within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change relates to assessing physical ... -
A market scoping study for porcine cysticercosis vaccine calls for a one-health approach to sustain the control of the disease in Uganda
(International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), 2019)Pig health is a critical issue in modern Uganda. Not only does the country have the largest pig population in East Africa, it also has the most rapidly growing pig population in sub-Saharan Africa and the highest per ... -
Bioengineered potato: Resistance to late blight disease and higher crop yields
(International Potato Center, 2019)Average potato yields in sub-Saharan Africa are four times lower than those in industrialized nations, mostly due to the effects of diseases, particularly late blight. This research demonstrates that the transfer from ... -
Transcriptional Activity, Chromosomal Distribution and Expression Effects of Transposable Elements in Coffea Genomes
(PLoS One, 2013)Plant genomes are massively invaded by transposable elements (TEs), many of which are located near host genes and can thus impact gene expression. In flowering plants, TE expression can be activated (de-repressed) under ... -
Prediction of Transposable Element Derived Enhancers Using Chromatin Modification Profiles
(PLoS ONE, 2011)Experimentally characterized enhancer regions have previously been shown to display specific patterns of enrichment for several different histone modifications. We modelled these enhancer chromatin profiles in the human ... -
Phylogenomic analysis of Uganda influenza type-A viruses to assess their relatedness to the vaccine strains and other Africa viruses: a molecular epidemiology study
(bioRxiv, 2021)Genetic characterisation of circulating influenza viruses is essential for vaccine selection and mitigation of viral transmission. The current scantiness of viral genomic data and underutilisation of advanced molecular ... -
On the presence and role of human gene-body DNA methylation
(Oncotarget, 2012)DNA methylation of promoter sequences is a repressive epigenetic mark that down-regulates gene expression. However, DNA methylation is more prevalent within gene-bodies than seen for promoters, and gene-body methylation ... -
Mammalian-wide interspersed repeat (MIR)-derived enhancers and the regulation of human gene expression
(Mobile DNA, 2014)Mammalian-wide interspersed repeats (MIRs) are the most ancient family of transposable elements (TEs) in the human genome. The deep conservation of MIRs initially suggested the possibility that they had been exapted to ... -
Genetic Diversity of Bundibugyo Ebolavirus from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo
(bioRxiv, 2021)The Ebolavirus is one of the deadliest viral pathogens which was first discovered in the year 1976 during two consecutive outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sudan. Six known strains have been documented. ... -
Effect of the Transposable Element Environment of Human Genes on Gene Length and Expression
(Genome biology and evolution, 2011)Independent lines of investigation have documented effects of both transposable elements (TEs) and gene length (GL) on gene expression. However, TE gene fractions are highly correlated with GL, suggesting that they cannot ... -
Sharing Oil and Gas Revenue in Uganda
(Uganda Wildlife Society, 2008)Although Uganda has significant natural resource endowments, most communities living in proximity to these resources continue to suffer serious levels of poverty. This situation sets a bad precedent for the developing ... -
Enhancing the role and visibility of forests and the forest sector in Uganda’s sustainable development
(Uganda Wildlife Society, 2011)Forests according to FAO global forest resources assessment 2010, is defined as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters, a canopy cover of more than 10% or trees able to reach these thresholds ...
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