Agriculture and Environment

The ELISA Test Kit, an in-house innovation developed by Dr. Frank Norbert Mwiine during his PhD Research could help save Ugandan cattle farmers from the devastation caused by the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus (FMDV).

Have you ever had the chance to see a solar panel made out of organic material? Well these and more innovations have been and will continue to be on display this week, as the university holds the "Media Week".

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) funded project entitled ‘Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub‐Saharan Africa and South‐East Asia’ has two principal objectives:

Makerere University together with the Nile Basin Research Programme (NBRP) University of Bergen, the NBRP Regional Coordinating Office, CLASCO-CROP and the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) are hosting an interdisciplinary and Cross Continental workshop

In the ideal world, Market Information Systems (MIS) are a farmer’s lifeline. In an instant, the farmer is able to analyse the best market for his agricultural produce; thanks to the volume of information flowing through the supply chains, hence ensuring increased transparency.

Makerere University’s Florence Lubwama Kiyimba is one of the 19 winners of AWARD’s New Advanced Science Training Placements for 2010. Gender-sensitive technology development/empowerment is her research area.

Smartphones could radically speed up the process of producing a nationwide map on plant health and bug infestation. John Quinn, CIT, Makerere University in Uganda has developed an app that workers can use to record the severity of the crop disease.

The African Crop Science Journal (ACSJ) has dedicated one Special Issue to climate change (CC) research and related works in an effort to promote dissemination of information to various stakeholders globally.

The Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is hosting an international course on Seed potato technology 2012 (3 ­ 30 June) in Wageningen, the Netherlands.

Climate change and variability is one of the global development challenges which is expected to have wide‐ranging impacts such as rising sea levels, increasing severity of droughts and floods,