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Plot 45. Semawata Road Ntinda, Nakawa Division Kampala
Natural Resources Management
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Project Name:
Natural Resources M'gt
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Category:
Nonpofit Poor.
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Client
Children and Women
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Three factors are important to explain the relationship between natural resources and poverty: a) land degradation, b) population-arable land ratio and c) climate change.
Land degradation: Is one major problem facing Uganda, as in much of the sub-Saharan African countries. Exacerbated by poverty, fast growing population and inadequate tenure security; land poses a threat to national and household food security and the overall welfare of the rural population in Uganda. The problem of land management is more serious in Uganda, where agriculture remains the main source of livelihoods contributing about 24.1% to the GDP, 85% of export earnings and 72% of employment and provides most of the raw materials to the mainly agro-industry sector.
Population-arable land area: has also become alarming and a true challenge that nature and demography presents to the efforts of sustainable household food security in Uganda. Uganda’s population as of May 2024 was 45,905,417 persons, reflecting an average annual growth rate of 2.9 percent since the last Census in 2014, A half of the population is under the age of 18. Five in every one hundred persons are aged 60 and above. Owing to high population increase against fixed land, the population density of the country has increased overtime from 64 persons/km2 in 1980 to 85 persons/ km2 in 1991, to 123 persons/ km2 in 2024. This has also increased the dependency ratio to 110 per cent in 2002 and was projected to increase to 115 per cent in 2021. The current situation concerning land ownership ratio in the rural setting, suggests that 35%-50% of the rural youth, who are married and have begun to run their own independent lives are virtually landless. Yet the social and economic development in the rural areas is not capable of providing them with other livelihood options. Consequently, the pressure over land resources are very high, and is causing irreversible damage; causing more poverty and continued food insecurity
Climate Change: Sustainable economic and social development of Uganda largely depends on exploitation of its environmental and natural resources, including climate. However, the increasing degradation of these resources coupled with increasing climate variability and climate change is beginning to have a serious negative impact on Uganda’s social and economic development and the livelihoods of millions of its people. Indeed, the degradation is threatening Uganda’s attainment of development targets including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Past experience in Uganda shows that El Nino and Lanina episodes are the principal causes of the most severe climate change related disasters in Uganda.
Agency for People Owned Processes (APOP) will reinforce the performance of the climate change sector given its resident expertise, adequate conceptualization of the importance of weather and climate information, its advocacy ability to cause policy, legislation, regulation and guidelines for mainstreaming climate change into development plans at all levels and finally, the strategic use of awareness at all levels about the causes of climate change and/or climate variability as well as their devastating impacts to socioeconomic development plans and activities.
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- Plot 45 Semawata Road
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