Climate Talk Uganda With Josephine Karungi

Episode 61: Chicken and Egg Farming as an Income Source

Poultry farming - and egg production - offer opportunities for small holders to diversify their income. While many smallholder famers have traditionally had a few chicken

Episode 60: Goat Farming as a Climate Smart Enterprise in West Nile

Goat breeding might seem like an unusual topic for a climate change podcast. But building household economic resilience is a crucial part of enabling communities to survi

Episode 59: WIIGOT - Connecting smallholder farmers with agribusinesses, services, and markets.

WIIGOT is an ecosystem that connects smallholder farmers with agribusinesses, services, and markets through trusted local Commercial Agents and Farmer Group Enterprises.

Episode 58: Irrigation Technology and Adapting to Climate Change

Irrigation and water management technologies have the potential to help farmers transition from seasonal production to year-round cultivation. They also enable farmers to

Episode 57: Making Machinery Available To Farmers

Well-maintained machinery like tractors can be a lifeline for farmers preparing their land for cultivation. But sometimes maintaining and repairing this machinery can be

Episode 56: Reporting on Climate Change with InfoNile

The Climate Smart Jobs program has been working with communication partners developing new approaches to covering climate change in the media. As I mention in my introduc

Episode 55: Shea butter and women's empowerment

This is a fantastic episode about women, shea, self-reliance, entrepreneurial energy and talent. It’s the story of Blessed Organic Release shea products, founded by our g

Episode 54: The Women's Gold of Africa - Shea Butter

Artificial meat. Shampoo. Cooking oil. Flour. All the good things that come from shea. Raymond Kakuba is the National Co-ordinator of the Nilotica Shea Alliance, and ha

Episode 53: Helping Women Achieve Better Farming Outcomes

Christopher Atibo is a business model specialist with the Climate Smart Jobs project. But he's a farmer to his bones. As his mother used to say, 'Let's go to work - if yo

Episode 52: The Uganda Climate Innovation Fund

Joining us in this episode are two of the key people who have been implementing the Uganda Climate Innovation Fund, Brian Ndyaguma and Tobby Ojok. The Climate Smart Jobs

Episode 51: WIIGOT - A Problem Solving Tool for Smallholder Farmers

Farmers in northern Uganda face many obstacles to success in the face of climate change. Shifting climatic patterns make planning extremely difficult, and access to marke

Episode 50: Growing Cocoa - A Ugandan Farmer's Testimony

A example of how the Climate Smart Jobs Program is having a positive impact, through the lens of Mme Milly Akello's experience in northern Uganda. Following on from our p

Episode 49: Enabling Increased Cocoa Cultivation in Northern Uganda

'Adag-anii means that we don't want rumours, we want to work.' Okullo Paul Peter is Managing Director of Adag-Anii Ltd, based in the the Lango sub-region of Uganda. In t

Episode 48: Battery Manufacture in Kampala

Batteries are a key technology for adapting to cimate change because they provide power on demand. Whether from solar, wind or wave, energy stored in batteries can be acc

Episode 47: CTU Extra - My Full Conversation with Halima Nalunkuma

This is the story of how Halima Nalunkuma decided to become a provider of agricultural materials - and knowledge - to farmers. And how she's now working with refugeee com

Episode 46: Pfumvudza In Action - Halima Nalunkuma in Kiryandongo

Sometimes life happens while you're busy making other plans. Halima Nalunkuma wanted to be a banker and to 'wear shoes with pointy heels.' But while in Kiryandongo she sa

Episode 45: Pfumvudza - Simple, Scaleable, Climate-Smart Agriculture

Mulching. Doesn't sound so...exciting. But trust me, this is a totally compelling conversation. It's about 'Pfumvudza,' a conservation-based approach to agriculture tha

Episode 44: Farming, Business and Climate Change

To enable smallholder farmers to become resilient to climate change, they must be encouraged to view farming as a business. That's the key thrust of the argument put fort

Episode 43: Agroecology and Climate Change

Agroecology, explains Josephine Akia Luyimbazi of PELUM, is a systematic approach to agriculture that is based on working in harmony with nature and natural processes. In

Episode 42: CTU Extra - Full Interview With Iganachi Razaki Omia

Iganachi Razaki Omia is the founder and CEO of Omia Agribusiness Development Group, which provides farmers in northern Uganda with a huge range of sevices from agricultur