Uganda

Witness Radio has petitioned the Buganda Land Board (BLB) to investigate and address concerns regarding forced land evictions of Kabaka’s subjects and tenants of BLB, whose land is targeted for oil palm expansion in Buvuma district.

In Buvuma District, Uganda, the push for the palm oil project expansion has emboldened land spectators and oil palm brokers to seize more land from neighboring communities. Those who resist often face harsh consequences.

A disturbing alliance between a palm oil company, district officials, and a college school is actively seizing land from farming communities in Buvuma district for their own profit

Talks with a delegation led by Austria's former Minister of Agriculture Elisabeth Köstinger focused on leveraging Uganda’s vast natural resources to generate carbon credits.

The biofuel project led by Uganda'a Jitmat and Face Power of the US will cultivate sweet sorghum on 6,000 ha using a nucleus farm and surrounding smallholder farming model.

Emotions, tears, and testimonies exposing the dark side of industrial agriculture rocked activities to mark the International Day of Struggle against industrial plantations 2024 celebrations in Uganda.

Civil society groups working on land-related issues and women land rights defenders from different communities in Uganda are meeting in Kampala to devise ways to strengthen women’s participation and decision-making in land governance.

When the industrial agriculture investor Agilis Partners targeted the lands of Kiryandongo for its investments, residents never knew that the company would empoly several tactics to force them out. One of them was sexual violence.

Groups petition the World Bank, US and Netherlands to support an independent investigation into human rights abuses committed against dozens of vulnerable people in Kiryandongo District, western Uganda, by agribusiness company, Agilis Partners.

“Some African nations, such as Kenya and Uganda, are ready to fast-track collaboration in agriculture with India and recently offered land on lease to Indian businesses during a delegation visit," said an Indian official

Tree planting in Africa is said to help save the climate and fight poverty, but silently, it is resulting in hunger and poverty. Farmers in Uganda have had enough. They're cutting down climate trees - and turning them into coal.

Residents of Pader Sub-county are protesting the allocation of 2,611 acres to Panacea Agribusiness Ltd, saying that more than 3,000 farmers in the area will have nowhere to grow their crops.